See You in Seattle | EMP Pop Con 2009

We're all in deep prep mode for our early morning departures to the Emerald City for this year's Experience Music Project Popular Music Conference. PopCon is a special place for us, since it was really the event that brought us all together for some deep, dishy hang time, despite having crossed paths here and there in more academic settings.

And though each of us has our own anxieties about travel--whether or not there will be sufficient fiber intake, whether or not we can squeeze in a few workouts to counteract the decadence, whether or not we have enough product to keep our variously textured hair-'dos from frizzing in the moist Pacific Northwest air--we can't wait to see all the friends we've made at PopCon through the years (a la Kenny Rogers). And of course, we always look forward to meeting more friends and finding inspiration.

As always, big thanks to Eric Weisbard for putting it all together once again with this year's stellar programming committee: Garnette Cadogan, Kyra Gaunt (Baruch College), David Grubbs (Brooklyn College), Margie Maynard (EMP|SFM), Michele Myers (KEXP), Diane Pecknold (University of Louisville), Ann Powers (Los Angeles Times), Sonnet Retman (University of Washington), Carlo Rotella (Boston College), Carl Wilson (The Globe and Mail), and of course, our own Alexandra Vazquez (Princeton | Oh! Industry).


Keep up with our shenanigans on Twitter (mobile reception permitting): http://twitter.com/ohindustry
We promise, though, not to compromise textiquette and our own efforts at having fun for the sake of a good tweet.

We leave you tonite with a little amuse-bouche from one of this year's PopCon keynotes, Nona Hendryx: