Jake Lang

FINISH HIM! How 'Mortal Kombat' Brought Gaming Music To The Mainstream | GRAMMY.com The 'Mortal Kombat' theme song may have never been included in the actual game, but the soundtrack from the 1995 film still changed the game.

Did a quick lil piece on the legend that is Mortal Kombat's music for GRAMMY.com! www.grammy.com/news/mortal-...

From 'Batman' To 'Black Panther': How Superhero Music Has Made Its Mark At The GRAMMYs | GRAMMY.com With 'Superman' 'The Fantastic Four,' 'Thunderbolts' and 'Captain America: Brave New World' filling theaters in 2025, look back on how superhero music has shaped six decades of GRAMMY history — from N...

Superhero movies are having a moment again (Fantastic Four out today, Superman still in theaters).

So I wrote 2,500 words for the @recordingacademy.bsky.social on how superhero music went from novelty to GRAMMY gold.

🦇🎧 From Batman to Black Panther:
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Field of Pixels | Jake Lang | Substack Where sports meet culture, music meets moments, and pixels meet people. Click to read Field of Pixels, by Jake Lang, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

Hey, you -- you should subscribe to my Substack.

It's called Field of Pixels.

It's new-ish, and it's where sports meets culture, music meets moments, and pixels meet people.

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How to Pitch "Smaller" Music Artists Without Feeling Small There's no perfect formula, but here's how I approach it and have done it before- and was published over 940 times.

And lastly, this was my Field of Pixels first. It's a guide as well, but from the editorial side.

There's no perfect formula, but here's how I approach it and have done it before- and was published over 940 times at Complex.

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How to Pitch Your Music Without Feeling Small Or: how to get noticed without losing your dignity (or annoying anyone)

And this, in April, was a fun one to write. I tried to do something a little different from a normal how-to guide. A lot of guides are pretty generic and obvious, but this goes a little deeper.

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This Knicks Fan Spent the Season Writing a Song After Every Game Lifelong musician and devoted Knicks fan Doug Berns turned every game into a song, crafting postgame anthems to capture the team's triumphs and heartbreaks.

Published in June, but this a story I reported back in March about @duglust.bsky.social

If you’re into the Knicks, sports, music, fandom, or creative storytelling, this one’s for you.

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Who Belongs in the Next Backyard Baseball? (Part I: American League) A current American League MLB player for every team, chosen for maximum cartoon charm, sandlot swagger, and Backyard-ready energy.

Here's my latest. It's from earlier this afternoon and the first of a two-part series on Backyard Baseball

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Field of Pixels | Jake Lang | Substack Where sports meet culture, music meets moments, and pixels meet people. Click to read Field of Pixels, by Jake Lang, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

Hey, you -- you should subscribe to my Substack.

It's called Field of Pixels.

It's new-ish, and it's where sports meets culture, music meets moments, and pixels meet people.

fieldofpixels.substack.com

Arcade Paradise is a tricky-addicting game, and I wish I could play it on Mac without any hoops.

I played on PS5 with PS Plus and found the time flying by. I've just about made it through the first week, got the extended room set up, and looking forward to more!

How to Pitch Your Music Without Feeling Small Or: how to get noticed without losing your dignity (or annoying anyone)

New on Signal 73, my newsletter on culture, creativity, and more:

"How to Pitch Your Music Without Feeling Small"

Practical advice + emotional honesty drawn from my experiences in music journalism, DJing & artist management.

Check it out!

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You might think going to Trader Joe’s at 10:45AM on a Tuesday would be a good time? It’s prime office hours right? You’d be wrong.

Finally saw Anora.

Wow.

It's not "Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From the Wreckage of a Destroyed Sinking Battleship" but Gene Hackman living to 95 and, it seems at least, not dying of some bog standard old age ailment is a hell of a thing.

Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

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I wonder what else America experienced from 1870 to 1913? Oh yes, maybe *the highest immigration rates relative to population of basically any country in history*

As a dual citizen of the US and Canada, lemme just say Lemieux was *right there*

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

tweet by cj (@futurevictim_) from 2021: “the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard”

happy super bowl to all

Ricky P, man. Still got it! 😆😎

(Via @newyorkpost.bsky.social)

That's right!

My first story for @rollingstone.com!

Kid-Friendly Gaming Franchise 'Backyard Sports' Is Back And Ready to Modernize Backyard Sports returns with kiddie takes on Barry Sanders, Dan Marino, and Lisa Leslie for a new generation of gaming

For @rollingstone.com writer @808sjake.bsky.social looks at the nostalgia bomb that is Backyard Sports and its triumphant revival.

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The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador's mega-jail? El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US and house them in its mega-jail.

This is horrific, U.S. may send criminals, possibly including U.S. citizens, to El Salvador mega-jail.

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If making America great again requires you to pay more for everything, lose your retirement savings, work more for less pay, be unable to afford health insurance, become an indentured servant to the oligarchs, maybe you were better off with the no so great version.

MAGA intellectual Darren Beattie will fill key State Department role Ben Smith

• BEN'S VIEW Beattie is a well-regarded figure in Trump's orbit whose controversy in 2018 - he appeared at a conference with extreme figures, but was not criticized for anything he said there - barely rates by 2025 standards.

He attended a white supremacist conference and appeared on a panel with one of the country’s most prominent white supremacist leaders, Ben

extraordinary

Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs  history to win Best Rap Album.

we are so damn lucky to see Herbie Hancock, whose first appearance on a Grammy-nominated album was in 1968, and Stevie Wonder, whose first nomination was the year before that, performing marvelously at the Grammy Awards in 2025