WOXY Modern Rock 500 1989, 1999, 2009 Playlists up on YouTube

I’m working on a piece on the 30th anniversary of the first + 10th anniversary of the last 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500, which will be this (2019) Memorial Day Weekend. As part of the research for that, I’ve compiled…

On Taylor Swift’s “ME!”

Taylor Swift’s pastel confection of a new single “ME!” is a pendulum-swing away from the heel-turn she did on her previous album. Its’ ebulent girlish femininity apparently makes it hard for some reviewers to hide their misogyny behind clever phrases…

Some personal news about the 2019-20 academic year

For the 2019-20 academic year I’ll be taking a year leave of absence at UNCC so that I can be a Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University in Boston. I’m really looking forward to being back in a…

Video of my CTM 2019 Talk: Resilience, Sonic Patriarchy, and Feminist Melancholies

My PopCon 2018 Talk: “WOXY’s Gone To Heaven”: neoliberalism and the death of the “future of rock and roll”

I’m speaking at PopCon in Seattle again this year. Here’s the text of my talk.