Jessica Hopper is editor-in-chief of the Pitchfork Review and the author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic.

“I have an agenda. You can’t read my writing and not know that I have a staunch fucking agenda at all times.”

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Show Notes:

@jesshopp

Hopper on Longform

Hopper's Pitchfork archive

[28:00] "Review of Superchunk's I Hate Music" (Brandon Stosuy • Pitchfork • Aug 2013)

[35:00] "The Passion of David Bazan" (Chicago Reader • July 2009)

[39:00] "How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock" (BuzzFeed • Nov 2013)

[39:00] "Read the 'Stomach-Churning' Sexual Assault Accusations Against R.Kelly In Full" (The Village Voice • Dec 2013)

[41:00] "Deconstructing Lana Del Rey" (Spin • Jan 2012)

[48:00] The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (Featherproof Books • 2015)

[50:00] "Gals/other marginalized folks: what was your 1st brush (in music industry, journalism, scene) w/ idea that you didn't 'count'?" (Twitter • Aug 2015)

[52:00] "Where The Girls Aren't" (Rookie • July 2015)

[55:00] Hopper's keynote at BIGSOUND (YouTube)

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