A few initial thoughts I wanted to scribble down before I forgot them… The day after the 2017 Brexit vote was the first Monday of the month, and at that time first Monday of the month meant industrial techno artist…

It’s Memorial Day Weekend 2019, which makes it the 30th anniversary of the first Modern Rock 500. I got to write about it in Belt Magazine. The link includes links to playlists of the 89, 99, and 09 countdowns, which…

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…

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…

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…

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

Now that I’m finished with The Sonic Episteme I’m working on some currently very structureless project on the aesthetics of post-probabilist neoliberalisms. So this is me working through some ideas related to that project. At the level of math, derivatives…

This Saturday March 9 I’ll be delivering the keynote lecture at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium meeting at the University of Chicago (more details later). The conference theme is “The Sonic Turn” and I’ll be speaking from sections of the…

I’m speaking at Queens U Kingston as part of the “Against Hungry Listening” series. The talk is February 28th. Here‘s the full text. The gist of the talk is that much of the popular conversation about what to do with…