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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There is much 2026 listening and relistening to come, but right now I'd urge those who haven't to check out Lex Walton and Wendy Eisenberg, with L'Rain maybe a touch behind.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here's my "Long Black Veil" short essay for the Hilobrow series, alongside the writerly equivalent of Nashville session players -- sentences for any occasion. www.hilobrow.com/2026/07/27/p...

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PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (8) – HILOBROW

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I am happy to note that the Oxford Handbook of Pop Music is now published -- as an e-Book at least. It was a pleasure to work on this project with so many terrific writers and thinkers. Nudge your library for access, please, but nudge me if that is not an option. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music

Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music is an attempt to uncover pop music studies within popular music studies, to attach enough of a framework to thes

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I don't know how to post my albums and songs list without shattering the word limit here, but if you can follow this link and scroll you'll see. open.spotify.com/playlist/6Ok...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Eric Harvey on indie, via Chris DeVille's book. I'd add the jazz hipster (hot and cold) link, Village Voice (Mailer, Hentoff, and Crouch) into Pop Conference into now university scholarship on the bigger picture DeVille sacrifices for close coverage. But thank you! open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

To put this another way . . . Derek Scott

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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PopCon | 2026

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

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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 · 24/07/2025

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

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Agreed, with more to say on Facebook!

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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 · 20/06/2025

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...

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

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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!

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

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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 · 23/04/2025

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

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de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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!

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RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Final Big Ears list: Alan Sparhawk, Beth Gibbons, Philip Glass Ensemble, Cassandra Jenkins, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Jessica Pratt, Swamp Dogg, Michael Hurley, Squanderers, 101 Audio Odyssey, Ambrose Akinmusire, Eiko Ishibashi . . .

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Next week the Pop Conference returns to USC -- in conjunction with IASPM-US as well. Even if you are not able to attend, run your eyes through the schedule: popcon2025.sched.com/list/simple. You'll learn about something new, guaranteed! And if you are in the LA area, I hope you'll swing by.

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Pop Conference 2025 Schedule

Check out the schedule for Pop Conference 2025

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The best line in A Complete Unknown might be "excuse me, Odetta." Wordiest songwriter in human history and the biopic brings us back home to Nathaniel Mackey: "telling inarticulacy."

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My 2024 faves: albums and songs. Shuffle away! open.spotify.com/playlist/6kx...

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Best of 2024

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@robinjames.bsky.social got me thinking about this: It's comparing apples and oranges, but the Album of the Year critical list aggregate has Brat with more than twice as many votes as the runner up, a tie between Romance and Cowboy Carter. How unusual is this?

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Did CBGB's regularly keep a big image of Eva Tanguay by the stage, as this photo would seem to indicate, or was that the Talking Heads' doing?

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I woke early for a Thanksgiving plate of Transa, the massive new Red Hot collection, gleaning lyrics and production details from Genius, Bandcamp, Wiki, Insta. I have cherished spaces like this, of cover songs and collaboration, since the first Red Hot, from Kiki & Herb into the Big Ears Festival.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thinking on my walk about commercial songs as not so much creating new needs as proving we have needs we can't or won't speak. Thinking about how I first heard Charli XCX inside an Icona Pop hit and didn't know it; wondering if some once heard Huey Smith inside a Frankie Ford hit and didn't know.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here, I hope, is 90% of a 2024 Top 40 albums list. (Roan, from '23, hit this year.) If your tastes are anything like mine, what else would you suggest? Charli XCX, Brat (and related) MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I somehow hadn't fully registered Dolly P's 1991 "Family" until the new Family album. It's Wainwright-Roches-Thompson caliber: "When it's family, you forgive them For they know not what they do When it's family, you accept them 'Cause you have no choice but to" And goes from there.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you summarize pop, include all these clusters, including oldies and the shameful lack of indies.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

First time in years I listened first on vinyl. Sure as the sun.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Final reminder, proposals are due tomorrow for the Pop Conference meets IASPM-US conference, a chance to talk about style at the edge (as you define that). The joint call is here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/CFP We need to gather in person now more than ever.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

FYI, the next Popular Music Books in Process event with be on 11/19 at 5:30p (ET). Brian Kane and Daphne Brooks are going to talk about Kane's new book, Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture. Join us!

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I think I had better repost this, after the recent influx. Howdy.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Hi to the music writers Benjamin Taussig connected me to earlier today. But I almost only post on Facebook. Remember: Popular Music Books in Process series details live here iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi... and the joint IASPM-US & PopCon call is here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/CFP

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

American Diva by Deborah Paredez ranges from Tina Turner & Rita Moreno to Venus & Serena Williams. She'll discuss it tomorrow (Tue Sep 10) in the Popular Music Books series' new season at 5:30 pm ET, with @annkpowers.bsky.social and Francesca Royster. Info: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Here is the 2024-25 schedule for our music book series, email me to get added to the list (no need if you already are!). iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Reminder! Proposals are due August 1 to talk in the 2024-2025 Popular Music Books in Process series about a book you have coming out or one you are working on. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Hey folks, we have a new call out for the Popular Music Books in Process series, care to present your work? Details here, please circulate: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

March included Mannequin Pussy, Adrianne Lenker, Beyonce, Tierra Whack, Waxahatchee, Yard Act, Four Tet, Faye Webster, ScHoolboy Q, Kim Gordon, Cakes da Killa, Moor Mother, Empress Of, Ariana Grande, Hannah Frances, MIKE, Kacey Musgraves, 1010benja, Julia Holter, and Sierra Ferrell. Shuffle!

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March2024_1 · Playlist · 244 songs

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Here is a recording of my Fulbright lecture, Music for Export: Abba, Max Martin, Spotify, and the Swemix of American Pop. Enjoy! media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/1...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Netflix 3 Body is far better made than Chinese TV’s trudge, but more generic, centering a US-UK idea of drama, losing how the novel and first retake conceived multitude, singularity, alienation. That said, if the guard reading Dhalgren indicates Benioff and Weiss's next elephant ride, go for it!

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

On Facebook, my main social site, where the word counts are not restricted, I posted a top 40 albums, top 40 songs list. I can share the Spotify link here, I think. open.spotify.com/playlist/0RW...

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40 Albums and Songs from 2023

40 Albums and Songs from 2023 · Playlist · 508 songs · 2 likes

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

It is weird to me that poet Steph Burt, whose chapter on indie in the first Pop Con collection still dazzles, whose roundup on 33 1/3 books for Slate was exhaustive, and who tackled Mitski for Robin & me at Journal of Popular Music Studies, is getting talked about like somebody who hates our field.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I wrote about science fiction and music across about 11 books; took a while for American Literary History to publish the thing, but now it's out -- I'll paste an unblocked link in the comments, hope it makes sense. academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

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