A picture of an animated, personified gray cat in Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life

A picture of a gray cat

We made our cat in Tomodachi Life

Literally JUST ate a dessert which, unbeknownst to me, contained raisins and it was so upsetting and so I’m very grateful to have opened up bsky to this post

My review of Anita Jóri and Guillaume Robin’s fascinating co-edited book Living At Night in Times of Pandemic: Night Studies and Club Culture in France and Germany is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. online.ucpress.edu/jams/article...

･⋆ women of Mongolian pop & trance, 2000-2006 ･⋆ YouTube video by Fairyland!

Now what do y'all know about women of Mongolian pop and trance from 2000–2006 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvr...

A man taking a selfie on a city street

Dissertation printed and submitted to ProQuest, exit paperwork signed, keys returned, farewells in process. All that’s left is commencement and conferral.

Thanks for a great five years, Eastman.

xoxo Dr./Prof. Flood

Also, Abigail Parker at the Uni of Nottingham is a Swedish pop music expert and may also know some references!

I think your best bet is to start with some of the (English language) lit on 1990s Eurodance (Nico Thom and Heiko Wandler have useful chapters, tho they're understandably focused on Germany and Italy) and Swedish pop (see Alf Björnberg's work on Sweden in Eurovision and check his bibliographies).

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Wellington, NZ!

📢 Calling all special collections oomfs!

I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me!

(You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

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I meannnnnn 👀👀

Thank you!! That’s the plan—gimme about 5/6 years…

Thank you!! Looking forward to FT&M in Dayton!!

This morning I successfully defended my dissertation in a closed meeting with my committee. Massive thanks to my advisors, Lisa Jakelski and Darren Mueller, and committee members, Anaar Desai-Stephens and Andrea Bohlman, for their support throughout this process!

New Religion

If y'all hear/feel an earthquake it's the Khia Asylum doors shaking!!! open.spotify.com/track/3TWpz0...

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music

Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine

Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.

Post a banger that’s not in English.

youtu.be/VCeEEFzVqeA?...

Final copy (pre-defense revisions): done and submitted ✅

Next stop: defense!

Olympic curling has me crashing out a bit, standing in front of my TV shouting “yeah!!!” and “oh!!!” like I’m a middle-aged father watching football

Our deadline is a week from today! Join us in Cleveland this summer!

Bad Bunny gives Super Bowl viewers two choices: crash out or tap in The claim that music sung in Spanish will alienate viewers ignores the fact that many people would rather join the fun than risk being left out of it

The brilliant Jessica Swanston Baker is required pregame reading today - on music, language, transmission, power, and the caribbean

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

FT&M gang roll up ‼️‼️

A mirror selfie at a bathroom sink. I’m wearing, a black turtleneck tucked into a pair of blue jeans with a brown belt.

If you ignore the location of this pic I kinda ate here

Else Marie Pade - "Syv Cirkler" (1958) YouTube video by One Eyed King

In this haus we stan Else Marie Pade who composed a bunch of electronic bops AND famously punched N*zis as part of the Danish Resistance during WW2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvm...

Members and friends of the AMS Popular Music Study Group: We're now on Discord! Join our channel here: discord.gg/rSZU4zgJ

“Hard doesn’t mean you’re bad at this.”

Needed to read this today as I continue my pre-defense revisions.

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine

against-a-i.com

Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules