“I love music. I’m the general manager at Noise Pop. I started off as an intern in 2009, then opportunities came up for me to come on and help in a marketing role and then it just grew from there.”
“Intern to General Manager in 6 years is quite an ascent.”
“Yeah, I eat, sleep, breathe, and shit Noise Pop so it feels right to be where I am.”
“So as a music lover…what’s some of your favorite music of all time and recently?”
“I think like most people I go through phases. I went through a phase where I was really into Spoon, The Walkmen, and The National. Tall, blond singers. I don’t know what that was about.”
“I like Spoon’s new album a lot.”
“Totally, I wasn’t really into Transference too much so this feels like a return to form. And now I’ve kinda gotten into hip hop and R&B again. I’m obsessed with the new D’Angelo record. Acts like The Weeknd are high on my list. The most recent Run the Jewels record was probably my favorite of last year. Of all time, I’d say…it’s gonna sound cliche but…Radiohead. They’re one of the bands I can play over and over again and never get sick of. I love that we live in a day and age where albums just drop, we could wake up tomorrow and there could be a new Radiohead record. I love Arcade Fire too, I think they’re geniuses.”
“When I think of Radiohead, or Arcade Fire, or Spoon, I see a lot of evolution. You mentioned Spoon had a ‘return to form’, can you elaborate on that?”
“I think artists have to explore different avenues and serve themselves artistically. I feel like their last record was for themselves and didn’t resonate with me particularly. It’s funny as consumers we objectively say ‘that’s a bad record’ whereas it’s really just subjectively you didn’t like it. With a band like Spoon it’s always a process and they’re always changing. It’s almost selfish to say ‘it’s a good record’ but this last record that came out is really appealing to me.”
“Me too. That’s the artistic journey right? I think Radiohead did it so well by destroying people’s expectations by moving so far ahead artistically with each new release.”
“Totally, I took a music class in college and my professor said that good music was playing with people’s expectations. You play within the pre established boundaries, but also take it a bit further.“