Marcus K. Dowling

Marcus K. Dowling is an iconoclastic polymath.

As well, he is an award-winning, critically-acclained and globally-renowned expert in music and pop culture.

He's a rare music industry veteran who can claim expert level knowledge in no fewer than 10 musical genres of 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 also won honors, worldwde, as a dance music, food, hip-hop journalist, and more, with his work being lauded by The Bitter Southerner, National Association of Black Journalists and 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 work as a screenwriter 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.