I'm an award winning journalist, critic, and producer with over 15 years of experience covering music, culture, style, and politics across digital, print, and video for Esquire, Pitchfork, GQ, VICE, Playboy, MTV News, and Entertainment Weekly.
In 2017 I won the Webby People’s Voice award in Animation for Pitchfork.tv’s “A Brief History of Goth” (directed by Joren Cull). I'm a former contributing editor at Esquire, former music columnist for the Chicago Reader, and the only professional music critic to share a songwriting credit with Cat Power.
I'm an expert in the history of pop music and youth culture going back to the early 20th century, and a keen observer of the intersection between art and technology.
One time Cheech Marin called me "hilarious."