the scowl

One: More EMP Pop Conference recaps, from Robert Christgau and Carl Wilson.
Two: The AV Club on unanswered TV questions.

It’s worth mentioning that Ned Raggett has posted four lengthy recaps of the Pop Conference on his blog:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Remarkably comprehensive, and some dialogue with participants in the comments to boot.

Last year was my first time at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference. This year’s occupied more time yet felt shorter — I’m not sure if that’s due to the fact that my paper last year was delivered early on the first full day, whereas this year found me speaking on the second, or to …

In retrospect, as I prepared to deliver my paper, I realized that a relatively genius thing might have been to post some of the songs mentioned in said paper on muxtape. When your traveling laptop is six years old and your hotel internet connection is spotty, though, that’s somewhat less of an option.
That said, on …

Instead: links to a number of pieces I heard about and/or read during the conference. These include:
-Eric Grandy’s Stranger piece on The Microphones, which convinced me to pick up the recent reissue of their The Glow, Pt. 2 on a late-in-the-trip trek to Easy Street Records;
-Molly Templeton on Cat Power, also because (if memory …