Musician, Bike Nerd, Academic pseudo-celebrity
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Joined November 2016
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Digging the new season of @dissectpodcast about Radiohead's In Rainbows and want to dive EVEN DEEPER? Check out my book *Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead*
amazon.com/Everything-its-Ri…
For those who aren’t able to make it to IASPM-US this week, I’ve recorded my conference paper on how the black metal band Liturgy creates something they call Transcendental Black Metal.mediahub.ku.edu/media/t/1_ya…
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Huge thanks to Elizabeth Passarella for quoting me (twice!) in today’s @nytimes feature on hobbies and creativity.
nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
#NYTimes #Radiohead #SigurRos #MusicTheory #CoverSongs #Heima
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New SMT-Pod episode: “Dual Leading Tone Loops in Post-Millennial Pop/Rock” 👇 (1/6) player.captivate.fm/episode/…
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Using data from the McGill Billboard corpus & a more recent post-millennial corpus, I show DLTLs are more common in recent decades—reflecting a shift in harmonic language. (4/6)
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I first explored DLTLs in film/TV scores to show how they represent being pulled in two directions. Now, I trace their growing role in post-2000 pop/rock music. (3/6)
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What’s a Dual Leading-Tone Loop (DLTL)?
It’s a short chord loop that contains leading tones from both major & relative minor keys, creating rich tonal tension & ambiguity. (2/6)
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What Does the Future of Music Videos Look Like: Longer or Shorter? missourimusicnotes.blogspot.…
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Early-career popular music scholars: come to Liverpool this summer and learn about cool stuff with me! sma.ac.uk/popular-music-theo…
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I was pleased to speak on the record with James Hall at The Telegraph about Radiohead's *The Bends*—click below for my hot take on who was and wasn't influenced by this legendary record! telegraph.co.uk/music/news/r…
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A student just summarized my lecture on extended jazz chords as "there aren't any wrong notes, some are just more right than others," which seems correct to me @MusicKU
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Composers, come work with me! We are hiring a tenure-track line in composition for somebody with interest and experience in electronic music. Priority deadline is October 28th.
Assistant Professor of Composition – Electronic Music | University of Kansas sjobs.brassring.com/tgwebhos…
I’m giving a talk on Radiohead at a bike shop that serves beer, so, I guess that’s like all my personality traits
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So honored to see my work influencing one of my favorite YouTube music theorists of all time, 12tone!
How Radiohead Writes A Song, live now on YouTube and Nebula: buff.ly/3Ttyuwi
ALT YouTube thumbnail featuring Radiohead's logo, a stylized cartoon bear with large eyes. Highlighted text reads "Becoming Radiohead".
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On this, the eve of my 20th year teaching new college students, I still have a few butterflies! @MusicKU
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It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Lydia Bangura about my research on hip-hop music videos, and also a little bit about my band D'Archipelago! Listen to *Her Music Academia* wherever you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/3Qp…
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I’m on a podcast NOT talking about Radiohead (mostly). Tune in for a chat about my band D’archipelago and my approach to composing metal.
youtu.be/z93Kwn0Kt0k?feature…
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