Pop Conference 2018

David Cantwell lives in Kansas City, MO. He contributes to New Yorker.com and to Rolling Stone Country. He is the author of Merle Haggard: The Running Kind and a coauthor of Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles."The Quiet Storm on Early 1980s Country... Read More →

Keith Harris is the current and former music editor of City Pages in Minneapolis. He has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, the Village Voice and multiple magazines, newspapers, and websites that no longer exist. He blogs at usefulnoise.wordpress.com and tweets as... Read More →

Jewly Hight is a music critic and journalist based in Nashville. She contributes to NPR, The New York Times, Vulture/NYMag.com and Billboard, and was the inaugural winner of the Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. She’s the author of Right By Her Root... Read More →

Carlo Rotella’s books include October Cities, Good with Their Hands, Cut Time, and Playing in Time. He contributes regularly to the New York Times Magazine and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Slate, The Believer, and The Best American Essays, and on WGBH... Read More →