Alongside longer research articles, we're specifically interested in hearing from DJs, folks in nightlife, journalists and independent writers to contribute shorter, blog-style pieces from the field -- the more experimental and media rich the better. Please share widely.
#musicsky #academicsky #edm
Writing opportunity: The DJ Set. Special issue of the journal Dancecult
This call aims to move forward how we understand DJ sets as the musical and social centre of gravity of most electronic dance music scenes.
Deadline 1 June: dj.dancecult.net/index.php/da...
So! My buddy Derek and I have launched a music school! It's called Tuniversity and it was motivated by two different things: people want to study with us who don't attend NYU, and NYU does not have enough classes for us to teach. Our first songwriting class starts next month. tuniversityny.com
Alongside longer research articles, we're specifically interested in hearing from DJs, folks in nightlife, journalists and independent writers to contribute shorter, blog-style pieces -- the more experimental and media rich the better. Please share widely!
#djculture #djset #edm #electronicmusic
This link should be free to access for thirty days, but if you have any access issues, send us a private message and we can help:
online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
In our new article out now in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, me and @delaceymusic.bsky.social examine how grime and dubstep DJs complicate the received notion that live electronic dance music must involve seamlessly sequenced tracks. From the outset, dub-diasporic DJing has rupture built-in.
Screenshot of the first page of the published article in PDF format
What makes an ideal DJ set? While continuity is key for a techno set, an artist influenced by dub or hip-hop may instead relish in rupture: the MC might demand they rewind the track when a bass line is so strong it simply has to be heard again from the top.
Bravo Ireland. This is such a great boost for artists. I have an Artists tax exemption in Ireland for works under 50k. It helped me so much - existence in a feast or famine career is hard. But consecutive Irish governments realized that writers, musicians, artists are the lifeblood of the country.
New favourite band - discovered from a paid instagram story ad for their gig last night in Leeds, of all ways. just as good live as they are on record, if not better youtu.be/zdIkQxEPoT0?...
The deadline to submit to our biennial conference in Aberdeen this summer has been extended to 23 February. Please share this reminder widely with your networks for anyone who may have missed the initial call.
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exciting, can't wait for this to come out.
We're slowly building an alternative to Spotify and Bandcamp. Owned by artists, labels the people who work here. Why? Because if we work together and own it together it can never be taken away.
Article alert part 2 ❗Our co-authored piece w/ @jenessawilliams.bsky.social and Iván Navarros on Lofi Girl and its various vibes & social dynamics is also out now in an awesome special issue about researching popular music and online cultures: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... (DM me for a copy)
Article alert! My short paper on analysing DJ performance, based on some of my PhD methodology work, is out now. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Deadline approaching! Submit a proposal to our 'amplification and everyday life' conference by 15th December
Went to an event with about 40 people, had good fun playing and chatting but the crowd quickly thinned out when the store couldn't get carde.io working and we had to just play casuals at the table
Come and think about music and sound amplification in everyday life with me and my colleagues in Huddersfield next June! CfP is open until 15 December 2025.
Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Professor Steve Waksman, leader of the Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield, poses smiling behind a stack of colourful amps by Marshall, Orange, Vox and other manufacturers.
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.
Fender amplifier-shaped shop front of the Guitar Store, Southampton, UK
Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
VCs don’t run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt...
#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories
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