Marcus K. Dowling

Marcus K. Dowling is an iconoclastic polymath.

He is also an award-winning, critically acclaimed, and globally renowned expert in music and pop culture.

He's a rare music industry veteran with expert-level knowledge of no fewer than 10 musical genres or subgenres.

Most recently, he was The Tennessean's Nashville Country Music Reporter (part of the USA Today Network). He is also a member of the 2025 class of Leadership Music and an Academy of Country Music-honored 2023 Country Music Association Media Achievement Award winner, the 2021 recipient of the Rolling Stone Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism.

As well, over the past two decades, he has won honors worldwide as a dance music, food, and hip-hop journalist, with his work lauded by The Bitter Southerner, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Plus, he has appeared in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, Vice, The FADER, VIBE, Complex, Mixmag, Bandcamp, CMT, No Depression, and more.

Moreover, he's been quoted by or has appeared for the A&E Networks, Associated Press, CBS, ESPN, Hulu, NBC, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Tribeca Film Festival, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

His credits include screenwriting for Viacom, A&E Networks, and the Washington, D.C., government.

In the past decade, his conceptual curation, marketing, promotion, interviewing, and hosting expertise have enabled creative entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry to generate $25 million in revenue.