under construction ha ha
re: The Raincoats
→ Bookforum
→ Cashmere Radio
→ NTS Radio
→ Oyster Magazine
→ Pitchfork Live
→ Junior Hi Mag
→ WICN 90.5 FM
→ MRR Radio
→ Live at City Lights
→ KEXP ‘Cobain 50‘
re: Fiona Apple
→ The Ringer
→ “Fiona Apple, Pop Music Renegade” (NYT Popcast)
→ WGN Radio
→ WNYC
re: Joni Mitchell
→ KCRW
→ KPCC
→ BBC
re: emo
→ “Women Built Emo, Too” The Ringer
→ “Where Is Your Boy Tonight?” (book)
“Jenn Pelly, the astute rock critic who has written more thoughtfully about emo over the years than perhaps anyone else, told me about how the window, paired with the light of suburban dusk around it, reminded her of being a teenager on Long Island—angsty, daydreaming, stuck indoors.” —GQ profile of American Football
interviews
→ On NYT’s ‘30 greatest living American songwriters’ for WHYY
→ On Enya’s “Only Time” for Austrian public radio
→ “Rock’s Not Dead It’s Ruled By Women” (NYT Popcast)
→ Le Gospel
→ Forge
Raincoats book tour
10-07-17 NYC @ McNally Jackson - with Rob Sheffield, Vivien Goldman, and Lindsay Zoladz
10-14-17 London @ Rough Trade East - with The Raincoats
10-16-17 London @ Foyles
10-17-17 Nottingham @ Rough Trade - with The Raincoats
10-18-17 London @ Bookartshop - with The Raincoats
10-20-17 Glasgow @ Monorail - with The Raincoats
11-02-17 NYC @ The Kitchen - with The Raincoats
11-03-17 NYC @ The Kitchen - with The Raincoats
11-04-17 NYC @ The Kitchen - with The Raincoats and Bikini Kill
11-09-17 NYC @ Silent Barn
11-17-17 DC @ Politics & Prose - with Katie Alice Greer
01-31-18 SF @ City Lights - In conversation with Greil Marcus
02-02-18 Oakland @ Wolfman - with Grace Ambrose
02-09-18 LA @ Poetic Research Bureau - with Simon Reynolds
02-13-18 LA @ Stories - with Allison Wolfe and Vice Cooler
02-15-18 LA @ Wacko - with Allison Wolfe, Patty Schemel, Alice Bag
02-16-18 LA @ Old Style Guitar Shop - with Patty Schemel
04-25-18 Olympia Library with Tobi Vail, Rachel Carns, Table Sugar
03-28-18 Oberlin - Screenings and lecture organized by Sophie Kemp
07-04-18 Melbourne @ In conversation with Shaad D’Souza
07-20-18 Chicago @ P4K Fest Book Fort - with Harmony Tividad
07-23-18 Chicago @ Volumes Bookcafe - with Jessica Hopper
11-13-19 NYC @ Colloquium for Unpopular Culture - with Liz Pelly
selected talks, presentations, panels, teaching etc~
→ In conversation with Liz Pelly @ Pioneer Works 2025
→ In conversation with Rob Sheffield @ B&N UWS 2024
→ In conversation with Thurston Moore @ National Sawdust 2024
→ Journalism mentor at Syracuse University 2021
→ Desolation Center film panel @ IFC 2020
→ In conversation with Liz Phair in Chicago (fall 2018)
→ In conversation with Toody Cole of Dead Moon @ MoMA PS1 (3/24/18)
→ Pop Conference 2018
→ In conversation with Thurston Moore @ MCA Chicago (7/13/17)
→ Pop Conference 2017
→ Pop Conference 2016
→ In conversation with Lukas Moodysson @ Brooklyn Academy of Music (5/7/14)
→ Another Thought: The History & Influence of Arthur Russell @ Housing Works (10/20/14)
curation
→ Basilica Soundscape 2025
→ Basilica Soundscape 2019
→ Basilica Soundscape 2018
→ Basilica Soundscape 2017
→ Sound Noise @ MoMA PS1 (3/30/14)