Every now and then I remember how much I love this banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsLL...

OLIVIA RODRIGO DID NOT DELETE THOSE KISSES

A jury has found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster held an illegal monopoly in the ticketing market. (www.nbcnews.com/business/con...)

@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...

The new Arlo Parks record is so warm and lovely. Really smart and natural maturing of her sound without throwing away any of the wide-eyed simplicity of her earlier stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBg...

Sabrina Carpenter is so good at being a popstar

Hi! A reminder that I have a monthly column at Paste about music books, so if you’re an author with an upcoming music book, please send my way for consideration 🙂

Another bit of MeToo music research meets this world! This time, I examine the semiotics of the indie rock apology, and the complicated ways that fans receive(d) journalism that is perceived to offer a rehabilitative platform. Free to the first 50 readers here - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MGECX...

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Incredible work here www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026 Abstract Length: 350–500 words Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio 👑

Maybe Charlie Puth really SHOULD be a bigger artist

the other required reading is of course p fkn r!!

wealthy influencers who promote sports betting to their young fans will not see the gates of heaven

This! We're not defending the current iteration of the BBC News department. We're defending the principle. While the current reality has rarely been more flawed, the principle has never been more critically important.

downloads for the people.

This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.

it doesn’t matter to them it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or if you were born here or if you have your certificate of naturalization in your back pocket or if you never committed a crime they are shooting whoever they want to

I think it would be really helpful if everyone posting their very cool takes on the state of music journalism this week would also encourage people to subscribe to worker-owned outlets & support independent writers trying to make new things happen

BTS! Here at Stanford! Very close to the proverbial crying screaming throwing up

Kelly Hayes(@mskellymhayes.bsky.social), speaking tonight, recalls a Minneapolan today telling at federal agents, "you can't kill us all." "I am grateful to the people of Minneapolis tonight," she says. "Their courage in the wake of this violence is a bright light for us to rally around."

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

@graceroso.bsky.social @chrisdeville.bsky.social Apologies for being camera-off but just wanted to say how much I enjoyed listening in to your PMBiP conversation just now. Such brilliant questions and discussion. Can't wait to finish the book (halfway through and thoroughly enjoying!)

EMO CON 2026 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis in April. And you still have time to submit an abstract! Listen to my chat with @vcmusictheory.bsky.social about why you should. dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...

A lovely rumination on ranking and lists - enjoyed reading and participating!

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

I'm so sad 😢

Fun #CfP for a spicy issue of Celebrity Studies (Forum section)!! Let's close this year strong!! 📢 Short accessible readings of 1500 words 📆 Submit before 16 January Good luck! 🩷✨️ #celebritystudies #mediastudies

Article alert part 2 ❗Our co-authored piece w/ @jenessawilliams.bsky.social and Iván Navarros on Lofi Girl and its various vibes & social dynamics is also out now in an awesome special issue about researching popular music and online cultures: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... (DM me for a copy)

My goal for the holidays is to spend a bunch of time catching up on all the new music I liked but didn't give my fullest attention to across 2025. Can't believe I spent so time pining for a new 1975 record when I could have just been sadblissing out to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQKC...

I like to think of myself as Schroedinger’s WoC in academia: I’m simultaneously so powerful that I keep white men from getting their rightful jobs in academia and simultaneously so powerless/disenfranchised I spent over a decade in precarious jobs across the world sans networks and sans godparents

JOB FAIRY: Reminder that I am hiring a Senior Researcher (2 years postdoctoral experience - 5 year post) for the ERC funded LivePlatforms research project exploring how people make livelihoods in platform work in Ireland. Please apply or share widely! Closing date Jan 5. www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Got a burning hot piece of music fan studies research? There's still time to submit to our special issue! As a reminder, we welcome the following formats: Articles (8k max words) Symposium (4k max words) Book Reviews (2.5k max words) Multimedia: 10 images or 5–8 minutes of audiovisual content.

i'm available for freelance work, bio writing, consulting, anything! for now going to start writing a newsletter over on substack best way to support me right now is to subscribe! brittanyspanos.substack.com

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Filing this one under "things to discuss in my new work on 'do music fans even find fandom fun anymore, or have platforms finally succeeded in subsuming us into the hellscape of capitalist consumer-competition above literally anything else'"

On this week’s episode, @jenessawilliams.bsky.social and @editkev.football share their last set of fresh new music tracks for 2025, talk about end-of-year ‘best of’ lists, artists taking big musical swings, live music in San Francisco, and another year of podcast here at edit radio. #MusicSky

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

🎸 🖤 🤘 New publication just dropped, and this time it's open access! 🎸 🖤 🤘 Williams, J. N., & Sobande, F. (2025). Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). lnkd.in/eMmjq6ue

The full Special Issue of Celebrity Studies on Celebrity Crises and Conflicts is now out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/1...

redid my personal site post-layoff :) my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)

The DePaul Pop Culture Conference theme this year is Remixing Pop Music, to be held at DePaul in Chicago on May 2. If you're interested in the theme, you can submit an idea for a presentation here (by Jan. 31): popcultureconference.com/2026-remix-p...