Erica Campbell

New York

Music Editor at PAPER Magazine

rock journalist & host | music editor @papermagazine [email protected]

Articles

TDE's Alemeda Plays Brooklyn's Baby's All Right - PAPER Magazine

1 month ago | papermag.com | Erica Campbell

The Ethiopian-Sudanese songwriter brings her pop punk hits to the Brooklyn venue amid best new artist chatter.
Megan Thee Stallion Is An HBCU Icon

Sep 17, 2024 | uproxx.com | Erica Campbell

In July 2019, the phrase “hot girl summer” went viral on social media, spawning tons of memes, tweets, and posts, all thanks to the song by the same name, written by Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion (born Megan Pete). Writing a hit track is hard enough — but writing a track that acts as a permanent pop culture reference point while also shouting out your respect for higher learning (i.e. And who gon’ tell him that my bitch is getting her degree?)? Well, that’s basically impossible.
How Bilal Rehman Is Transforming The "Snobby" Design Industry

Apr 12, 2024 | uproxx.com | Erica Campbell

Bilal Rehman didn’t plan to be an interior design mogul, at least not initially. At just 24, the Houston-based studio owner has become the face of a younger, more approachable, and imaginative interior design industry, but a few years ago his career ambitions included titles like “doctor, engineer, and lawyer” he tells UPROXX. “I ended up choosing computer engineering as my major,” he says.
Larry June Turns Up The Volume on Black Creativity

Feb 29, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Erica Campbell

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Tech Expert Darrell Booker Talks ’Our America: In The Black’

Feb 22, 2024 | uproxx.com | Erica Campbell

What would the world be like if the Black community had access to financial health and wellness tools that not only lead to economic mobility, but generational wealth? In ABC’s Our America: In the Black, Microsoft Philanthropies specialist Darrell Booker seeks to find the answer to that question, exploring how three individuals at different stages of their financial journeys are transforming their lives.
Is This It?: Making Music in the Year of the Girl

Feb 8, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Erica Campbell

Dobson, who has talked about her struggle to create rock and pop music in an industry that couldn’t seem to place her looks with her voice (one label referred to her as “Brandy Spears”), emphasizes that embracing the Year of the Girl also means paying it forward. Despite wrestling to find a just place in the industry, Dobson has thrived and survived, with acts like Willow Smith, SZA and Olivia Rodrigo (and writers like me) acknowledging her as an influence.
Hotel El Ganzo Is Causing a Scene in San José del Cabo

Dec 29, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Erica Campbell

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Lola Brooke: the small but mighty MC making big moves

Nov 26, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Erica Campbell

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Lola Brooke: the small but mighty MC making big moves

Nov 26, 2023 | nme.com | Erica Campbell

Inside a downtown New York City loft, and Brooklyn’s very own Lola Brooke is sitting in a makeup chair balancing a salad in one hand and a cell phone in the other. There’s an excitable buzz in the air as everyone preps her NME Cover photoshoot, arranging strips of metallic tape for a backdrop while tying her into a pair of platform heels.
Liza Anne's Tour Diary With Pussy Riot

Nov 16, 2023 | papermag.com | Erica Campbell

Earlier this month, while on tour with Pussy Riot, Liza Anne released their fifth studio album Utopian. It was on the third day of the tour, after dining on weird diner food with the rest of the touring crew and right before divulging on cookies in the greenroom that they realized it was the day of their album release. So goes the tour lifestyle, so quick and brimming with chaos that even something as trajectory-shifting as a record drop could fall in between the tightly timed cracks.