Pop Conference 2017

TwitterDamon Krukowski is a musician (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) and writer. His first nonfiction book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World will be published on Record Store Day 2017 by The New Press (New York). He is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital... Read More →

TwitterWelsh-born Jon Langford, the original drummer for the punk band the Mekons, has released numerous recordings as a solo artist and with other bands, most notably the Waco Brothers, The Three Johns, and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts. Langford is also a respected visual artist and in 201... Read More →

TwitterGreil Marcus is the author, most recently, of Real Life Rock: The Complete Top 10 Columns, 1986-2014 and Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations, both from 2015. With Werner Sollors he edited A New Literary History of America (2009). In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, CU... Read More →

TwitterFranz Nicolay is a musician and writer with a discography ranging from punk to contemporary chamber music, including The Hold Steady and Against Me! He has been a contributor to several magazines, his first story collection Complicated Gardening Techniques was published in 2009, and his de... Read More →

TwitterJenn Pelly is an associate editor at Pitchfork. Her writing has appeared in Spin, The Village Voice, Nylon, and Billboard and online at The New York Times and Rolling Stone. She is at work on her first book, a volume in the 33 1/3 series on The Raincoats' 1979 debut, to be published in... Read More →