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 focus on digital music circulation; 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 formerly wrote with relative frequency for Pitchfork.com.  I reviewed albums, tracks, and wrote a short-lived column for the site.  I did one review that ended up on ABC News, and it’s here.  I wrote a big piece about mp3s in the 00s for them, and a slightly less big piece about Hitchcock’s use of pop music in Rear Window as well.

I’ve written for a few other places too, including the academic journal New Media and Society, the Arizona Republic (for which I, among other things, interviewed Henry Rollins), the Village Voice, North Carolina’s Indyweek, Stylus (RIP), Idolator (RIP), 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.  I’m on Facebook too.