I am best known for running the music label Brassland, which I co-founded in 2001, with members of the band The National. For that work, I have been featured in The Irish Times, The New York Times, Print Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and other trusted media outlets. Pitchfork has referred to it as a “venerable artpop boutique label” and on its 10th anniversary, The Guardian newspaper profiled Brassland as “the record label at the centre of New York’s other music scene,” citing it as “a focus for some of the most intriguing and creative musicians.”

In my first career, I was a writer, journalist & critic covering topics such as Beck, backyard wrestling, Elliott Smith, video games, recent evolutions in classical music, Tucker Max's "fratire" books, and William Shatner. My work was published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly.

I have also been an invited speaker/teacher at institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts; a panelist at music industry gatherings including SXSW (USA), by:Larm (Norway) and Haldern Pop (Germany); and a curator at the Summer Nostos Festival (Greece), the National Concert Hall (Ireland) and Adelaide Festival (Australia).