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Pop Conference

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Give the Music Nerds Some: The EMP Pop Conference Makes the Colbert Report

    Indie rock has long had a place on Comedy Central's satirical right wing broadcast the Colbert Report--from Stephen Colbert's challenging the Decemberists to a green-screen guitar shred-off to having Vampire Weekend battle the Black Keys for Grammy and commercial licensing supremacy (always with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    The EMP Pop Conference: LA's Gain is Seattle's Loss

    ​The EMP Pop Conference is exactly what it sounds like: an annual conference about pop music that, up through last year, was held at Seattle's garish (but largely useless!) Experience Music Project. It gathers academics, critics, musicians, and other creative intellectual types together every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    No, EMP's Pop Conference Isn't A Seattle Thing Anymore, and It's Definitely Headed For LA

    ​EMP made official what was widely discussed and suspected, that they'll be taking their Pop Conference --- a weekend of panel discussions, paper presentations, and over-analysis of all things pop music -- out of Paul Allen's EMP and on to UCLA for 2011, no longer being a fixture on the local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2010

    A.M. Music News: Notes on New Music on the Way From The National, Hole, Rufus Wainwright, and Victor Shade

    Sylvere H.The National​-- Spin: The new Hole album (Hole being Courtney Love and a fresh cast) is called Nobody's Daughter and will be released in April 27 via Mercury/IDJ. -- Pitchfork: The Germans won't let Peaches perform Jesus Christ Superstar. -- NME: The new Rufus Wainwright album, All ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2008

    Cory Doctorow

    Sylvere H.The National​-- Spin: The new Hole album (Hole being Courtney Love and a fresh cast) is called Nobody's Daughter and will be released in April 27 via Mercury/IDJ. -- Pitchfork: The Germans won't let Peaches perform Jesus Christ Superstar. -- NME: The new Rufus Wainwright album, All ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Greil Marcus

    One of rock’s last great critics standing

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    Pop Conference 2007 at EMP

    One of rock’s last great critics standing

  • Food

    August 30, 2006

    Revolution Bar & Grill

    Listen to crunk and knock back Robitussin (half off!) at the Experience Music Project's restaurant.

  • Music

    April 26, 2006

    Guilt and Pleasure

    Rock criticism's power couple get their talk on at EMP's Pop Conference.

  • Music

    April 13, 2005

    Yakety Yak

    Talking with EMP Pop Conference presenter Robert Christgau.

  • Music

    April 14, 2004

    Conference Calling

    Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Music Studies Conference.

  • Music

    April 9, 2003

    Holy Greil

    Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Music Studies Conference.

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