Eric R. Danton writes about music and pop culture. He publishes the newsletter Freak Scene, about music in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Fortune, Paste, Pitchfork, Inside Hook, Salon, Flavorwire, Myspace, M Music & Musicians and this blog, which he started in 2009. He has also contributed to Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide, No Depression (in its original print incarnation), the Bluegrass Situation and American Songwriter, as well as the bygone publications Performing Songwriter and Ironminds.com. He appears every Wednesday with Joan Holliday on the Best New Song of the Week segment on WRSI-FM (93.9) in Northampton, Mass., and occasionally on the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR-FM (90.5) in Hartford. He was rock critic at the Hartford Courant from 2002–12. Email Eric here, and follow him on Mastodon.