Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know that today is my last day as editor of Idolator. The site will continue on, and I will continue to write about music, but we’ve decided to part ways. Despite my nominal status as a “writer,” I am straight-up terrible at goodbyes. So I just have a list of people to thank before I exit stage left. More »
If you’re in the Washington, D.C., area and you have the afternoon free today, feel free to come by the Georgetown Hotel and Convention Center at 2 p.m. for a discussion of the state of music writing that features Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, David Malitz of the Washington Post, and me, among others. The discussion is part of the Future Of Music Coalition Policy Summit, which wraps up today and which, according to reports from friends who have been here this week, has been chock-full of good discussion since it kicked off on Sunday. (If you can’t make it, there’s also a Webcast of the event.) [Future Of Music Coalition] More »
My former colleagues at Gawker asked me for my summer-jam picks; I obliged them, although the songs listed aren’t “picks” so much as they are “songs from which you will be unable to escape should you ever decide to leave the comfort of your headphones.” People seem to be sort of up in arms that I didn’t include Lady GaGa on the list, but I honestly forgot about her while I was brainstorming! Not sure if that says more about her songs’ staying power or my ability to strategically ignore annoying things, to be honest. [Gawker] More »
