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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 2d

To put this another way . . . Derek Scott

Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 5d

Or use PopConference.org!

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 5d

The Pop Conference deadline is less than three weeks away: October 22. Please, join me in spreading the word today. PopCon thrives on its ties to both lifelong presenters and dynamic new presenters. Got something good to speak to our Mayhem? Send in a proposal! www.popconference.org

PopCon | 2026

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

www.popconference.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Email, please

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Popular Music Books in Process returns September 10! If you have not been added to the mailing list, please send me a note. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Popular Music Books in Process Series

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 30

psst: new Pop Conference call. Repost please. www.popconference.org

PopCon | 2026

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

www.popconference.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 25

I should probably avoid much comment on that New Yorker piece; have to prep for my Rock, Soul, Hip-Hop, and Country course, where this week we are reading the first chapter of the textbook, Major Labels, by one K. Sanneh.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 12

Streaming and awesome

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · Aug 12

I don't know, you probably don't care, but thanks to an online friend I'm listening to a collection of devastatingly funky music made in Harare, Zimbabwe's townshps between 1975-1980. I know loads of 1980s Zimbabwe music--a top place and time--but this is mostly new to me.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks! Streaming it now, will spread the word.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 8

The 1970s genre, cocaine? Yes, interesting and boring.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jul 24

I hope this registers. Reviews matter, even if less clicked on. They’re the active interpretive work of reception. Preserve them!

tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In Defense of the Traditional Review

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

www.newyorker.com

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jul 24

Agreed, with more to say on Facebook!

Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · Jul 24

I ♥️ MEKONS BEST SHOW EVER (since the last one)

Sally Timms looks on as Jon Langford balances guitar on head like the rock god he is

Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jul 23

Quick reminder that if you want to be part of our music book series, there is about a week to send in a proposal. Go for it! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An...

International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - PMBiP 2025-2026

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jun 25

I mean, Martha Wainwright, "B.M.F.A." and Wire, "Mannequin" are gold standard (and why the Feelies left their version of the latter off the new one is beyond me).

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Jun 17

For anyone writing a book about music, you might find this invitation to present of interest! I participated in the @iaspm-us.bsky.social "Popular Music Books in Process Series" a couple of years ago, and it was a wonderful experience. 🎶

Popular Music Books in Process series, 2025-2026 Call for Proposals

Since 2020, the Popular Music Books in Process series has held online events for music writers and scholars to showcase recent books or works in progress for an engaged audience. The series is a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. There have been more than 140 Zoom events so far, almost all preserved on YouTube. We generally run biweekly from fall through spring.

We look forward to another round of presentations. If you are publishing a book in the next year, or have ongoing work to showcase, please let us know. All kinds of formats are welcome, from readings and dialogues to roundtables, always including a generous Q&A. Some authors have even incorporated live music. We ask you to make your event conversational on some level and avoid longer solo presentations. If you need ideas for interlocutors or co-presenters, we can suggest some. Our YouTube page shows the variety of strategies presenters have used. We may group authors with kindred approaches, too.

Whatever the format, our focus remains books, whether early in gestation or after publication. We want to showcase popular music writing of many kinds, keeping our communities connected, and welcoming in new participants. Presenters are asked to do their best to attend several other sessions through the season.

Please feel free to share this call with others you think might want to join in.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Journal of Popular Music Studies, which I co-edit with Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, has openings for three positions -- an associate book reviews editor, an associate editor of the "field notes" section, and a web editor.

Details at the link, spread the word:

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/JPMScallsfor...

International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - JPMS Calls For Editors Summer 2025

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our popular music books series has a new call out for this coming school year, details here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An... Consider taking part and please let others know, too!

International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - PMBiP 2025-2026

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 28

By the way, if you are curious about what the hell I and others are going on about as we mourn, Joshua's music book series appearance, our most watched ever, lives in the link attached here. Rock and roll in a nutshell. youtu.be/d6qc8EqN_XI

Joshua Clover on Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" w/ Elizabeth Nelson, Eric Weisbard, PMBiP, 09/20/21

YouTube video by Eric Weisbard

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 28

Sometimes, he made me feel a bit feeble, but that was okay, too, I just valued the time I got to spend with him. And when I followed him in the Duke Single Series he started, he tagged his comments on the working file Jane Dark. I will miss him so much.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 28

A spark that made New York editors want to fan his flame, Kim Stanley Robinson pigeonhole him into Ministry for the Future. An email would become a 100 Gecs party. As you'd expect from Mr. Critical Karaoke, he had thoughts about everything: could go on about freaking Khris Middleton.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 28

That will be explained, in so many ways, in the days to come. Poet, pop critic, Marxist, blowhard cracking himself up so you forgave.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 28

We have lost Joshua Clover -- my friend from the first phone call to Indiana, when "Jane Dark" was writing for me at the Voice, to a Zoom call last September, sipping red wine in a Free Gaza shirt. He was a lot.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 23

A perfect database for Bananafish (and many other lost pubs, from zines to academe).

de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social · Apr 23

Some days I struggle to see myself as an academic. Others – like today when I got really excited about a new magazine repository – reaffirm that I am indeed a massive nerd. Check this out: rilm.org/rapmm. Launching May 27!

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

rilm.org

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de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social · Apr 23

Some days I struggle to see myself as an academic. Others – like today when I got really excited about a new magazine repository – reaffirm that I am indeed a massive nerd. Check this out: rilm.org/rapmm. Launching May 27!

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

rilm.org

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am not a subscriber, so maybe it's in the original post, but I reviewed them in their moment and the singer himself rewrote the chorus to sing "fucking shitty, fucking shitty"

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