Marathonpacks is me, Eric Harvey.  Hey there.  When I’m not blogging, I’m a PhD candidate at Indiana University, in the departments of Communication and Culture and Ethnomusicology.  My dissertation will center on indie music fandom during the peer-to-peer era; I’ll be researching and writing it for the next few years.  Expect a lot of what you see here to pertain to that sort of thing.

I also write with relative frequency for Pitchfork.com.  I review albums, tracks, and occasionally write a column for the site.  I’ve also written a big piece about mp3s in the 00s, and a slightly less big piece about Hitchcock’s use of pop music in Rear Window.  In the past, I’ve written for a few other places, including the academic journal New Media and Society, the Arizona Republic, North Carolina’s Indyweek, Stylus (RIP), Idolator, and a smattering of blogs.  I’ve got a chapter about the new music industries in a forthcoming edited volume called Managing Media Work (Sage).  If you’d like to see some examples of what I do here, check out the archives.  If you’d like to see who else I like to read online, dig the blogroll.

If you’d like to get hold of me for any reason, hit me up at marathonpacks at g mail dot com.  I have a Twitter account here.