About Fluxblog

My name is Matthew Perpetua, and I’ve been writing Fluxblog on nearly every weekday since February of 2002. I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and I grew up in a small town called Cold Spring, which is located about 80 minutes north of Manhattan. I am a graduate of Parsons School of Design, but I have not done much in the way of visual art for a while. (It’s expensive.)

I am the director of quizzes and games at BuzzFeed, and before that I was the site’s music editor and primary music critic from 2012 through 2014. Prior to that I worked at Rolling Stone and Public Radio International, and was a contributor to Pitchfork, Vulture, Spin, Associated Press, MTV, eMusic, Slate, and The Atlantic.

I am also the author of Pop Songs 07-08, a website in which I wrote an entry for every album track and notable rarity in the R.E.M. discography. The site is more or less complete as of this writing, but I will be returning to write about the songs on the band’s most recent release Accelerate sometime in the next year or so. Even if you don’t care about R.E.M., I think it’s worth checking out, as I think some of my best critical writing appears on that site.

In the summers of 2006 and 2007, I wrote a bunch of reviews for the Movie Binge website. I’m very fond of several of my reviews on that site.

Email Fluxblog: perpetua[AT]gmail.com

If you want to send music to Fluxblog, please inquire via email. Please note that while I am always glad to be sent new music, there is no guarantee that what you send will be mentioned here. If you are an artist (or represent an artist) being featured on this blog and want me to take down a song, let me know, and it will be removed immediately.