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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 10h

The 2027 Pop Conference CFP is now out, info here: note that proposals are due pretty soon, as in Nov. 1 popcon2027.sched.com/info?fbclid=...

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This might help, global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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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 · 08/09/2026

Hope you get to follow this path to the fullest! Meantime, an old favorite from the other team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aY8...

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Uncrushworthy - Courtney Love (Lois Maffeo + Pat Maley band) *Audio*

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I like that Alvvays has the song "Tom Verlaine" because he had the song "Always."

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A fun book by two very cool people, maybe I can introduce you one of these days!

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Do the two (or three) of you know each other? Would be a fine hang!

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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 · 20/04/2026

7 and 1/2 cents doesn’t mean a thing, but….

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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 · 20/12/2025

For you, today, I suggest Connections

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The last 36 seconds are a family affair for real

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

Also, will these substack essays be findable years from now? Eric, maybe pitch a fuller version of this to Ari Kelman at Reviews in American History . . .

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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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Popular Music Books in Process Series

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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 · 12/08/2025

Thanks! Streaming it now, will spread the word.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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

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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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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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 · 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

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 · 28/04/2025

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 · 28/04/2025

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 · 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 · 23/04/2025

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

. . . Chanel Beads, Julia Holter, Sun Ra Arkestra, Lankum, Ahmed, clipping., Ann with Joe Boyd, Lonnie Holley, Tindersticks, and Mabe Fratti.

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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

Times are what they are, but creative passion is always a boon. I'll anchor a roundtable with Oxford Handbook of Pop Music contributors and present a version of my SweMix Fulbright talk for a panel on Export Music.

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

My thanks to all who have kept the event I helped found going into what is now Pop Con year 24: madison moore and Andrew Mall for co-organizing the merged event so effectively, USC host Jason King, and IASPM-US prexy Kwame Harrison for pursuing the collaboration in the first place.

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