→ This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
My essay on Lucinda Williams was included in
the 2022 anthology This Woman’s Work, co-edited
by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and published by
Hachette/White Rabbit. I interviewed Lucinda for
this hybrid piece of criticism and personal writing,
centered on her 2003 song “Fruits of My Labor.”
→ Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal
I wrote an essay for the catalog that accompanied
Ars Nova Workshop’s survey of multidisciplinary
art and research by the late free jazz pioneer Milford
Graves. “Professor Graves” featured insights from his
students, collaborators, and admirers including
Shahzad Ismaily, Jason Moran, Greg Fox, Camae Ayewa,
Taja Cheek, Kim Gordon, and Fiona Apple. Published
in 2022 by Inventory Press and Ars Nova Workshop.
→ Curation
Starting in 2009 I sporadically curated music
events in the New York area. I’ve helped curate
music, art, and literature at Basilica Soundscape
in Hudson, N.Y. since 2017. I also curated an
annual Pitchfork showcase 2013-2017.
→ Abandon
Since 2016 Abandon is the performance
project of writers Jenn and Liz Pelly
with noise musician Stephen Lee Clark.
Abandon has performed frequently around
New York at Silent Barn, MoMA PS1, and
The Glove. Click here for show history
→ Cryptophasia
Cryptophasia was a zine and then a
newsletter of music reviews from myself
and Liz Pelly. Currently on hiatus
→ Nothing Feels Natural: Interviews in 2016
ROUGH TRADE EDITIONS No.8 Nothing Feels
Natural is an abridged edition of the
zine that originally accompanied Priests’
debut LP of the same name in 2017. It
features a series of interviews conducted
with the band by journalist Jenn Pelly in
Washington, DC during the first days of
November 2016. Published by Rough Trade
Books in June of 2018.
→ Hidden Eye
Hidden Eye is a small arts magazine founded
in 2014. Issue Zero was a collaboration b/w
Jenn Pelly, Carson Cox (Merchandise), Trip
Warner (Wharf Cat Records), and Jason Vachula
(Psychic Blood). It features long interviews
with visual artists Emma Kohlmann and Shawn
Reed (Night-People Records), and original
writing and collage art, among other things.
→ Time capsules
2024, 2023, 2022 (lost), 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018