Fresh Beats

• Obama’s “One Chance”: Winning Over Hearts and Ears by Jason Lee Oakes

  The past couple of weeks have seen a huge spike in “spiking the football” analogies. Ever since the above ad was posted online, the president’s [...]

• Best New Thing in the World?

  Last week, Amanda Palmer began a kickstarter campaign – something she’s done before – to raise money for her new solo album. She asked supporters [...]

• CFP: IASPM-US Interview Series

  The IASPM-US website is launching an ongoing series of posts featuring interviews with popular music scholars. At the center of the series will be interviews [...]

• IASPM-US/POP Conference Round-Up: Alice Price-Styles

  As I was waiting to check-in with Delta for my JFK-bound flight, day-dreaming about my impending two week New York adventure, I could overhear the [...]

• The Rock’s Backpages Rewind: Mike Saunders, 1973

  Once a month, IASPM-US brings you an exclusive piece from the vaults of Rock’s Backpages, the online library of music journalism and pop writing – [...]

• Phoebe Jacobs

  This comes from Charlie McGovern: Phoebe Jacobs, who lived a life in the music business and jazz world that will not be seen again, passed [...]

• Feedback Press: Pop Papers

  Feedback Press has just rolled out the first five installments of a new line of short publications called Pop Papers. Before handing the full description [...]