He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His book Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership and Intellectual Property Law will be published within the Toby Miller-edited series "Popular Culture and Everyday Life" through Peter Lang Publishing. In addition to publishing a number of chapters in edited volumes and articles in scholarly journals (Journal of Communication, Popular Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies), he has written extensively about popular music and popular culture in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The Village Voice, Raygun, MTV.com, VH1.com and SonicNet.