Jessica Hopper

Host of Season 2 of Lost Notes, Jessica Hopper is a Chicago-based music and culture journalist.

She is the author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic (2015), The Girls Guide to Rocking (2009), and most recently, the memoir Night Moves (2018). She was formerly Editorial Director at MTV News, Senior Editor at Pitchfork, Music Editor at Rookie, and was the longtime music consultant for This American Life.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, as well as Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. She is currently at work on a forthcoming book on women in music in 1975.

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‘Women Who Rock’: Musicians didn’t let record labels dictate their careers

Music

‘Women Who Rock’: Musicians didn’t let record labels dictate their careers

In the four-part EPIX original docuseries “Women Who Rock,” women music legends describe how they survived and thrived in the male-dominated music industry.

Jul. 25, 2022 from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Lost Notes S2 Ep. 8: Song of a Gun

As long as there have been guns, there have been songs about guns. But American culture's relationship with guns is changing. Does popular music reflect that?

Arts

Lost Notes S2 Ep. 8: Song of a Gun

As long as there have been guns, there have been songs about guns. But American culture's relationship with guns is changing. Does popular music reflect that?

Jun. 13, 2019 from Lost Notes

Lost Notes S2 Ep. 7: Beyond Disco: Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh

In the early ‘80s, two teenage siblings in London recorded an album that fused Pakistani pop and British New Wave. It became a perfect harmony of the two worlds they lived in.

Arts

Lost Notes S2 Ep. 7: Beyond Disco: Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh

In the early ‘80s, two teenage siblings in London recorded an album that fused Pakistani pop and British New Wave. It became a perfect harmony of the two worlds they lived in.

Jun. 6, 2019 from Lost Notes