Jessica Hopper

Dec 24, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Jessica Hopper |Philip Montoro

Jessica Hopper has been an important national voice in feminist music criticism since the 2010s, when she became the first music editor at Rookie magazine and assembled teams of top-shelf talent at Pitchfork and MTV News. But 20 years ago, Hopper was still freelancing regularly for the Reader, and she wrote this lively scene report from Warped Tour.

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Jessica Hopper |Amanda Petrusich |Bill Brewster

Another summer is upon us, and with that comes plenty of time for self-care, especially the mental challenge kind. (No, not like that.) There's stacks of books to be read, from saucy beach reads to in-depth nonfiction dives, plus that weird sci-fi graphic novel your niece gave you. For something a little sweeter, we've rounded up our favorite music books, old and new, to help you study up on records, criticism, and personal voyages worth learning about.

Jul 17, 2024 | razorcake.org | Nate Powell |Jessica Hopper

Jul 17, 2024The Bangles first entered my life in junior high school, when the music video for their chart-topping single “Walk like an Egyptian” played incessantly on MTV and thoroughly captivated the girls in my class at a suburban Catholic school. Maybe because it was a successful rock band of four women who in the video played their instruments with a cool ferocity and looked glam while doing so.

Mar 30, 2024 | abcnews.go.com | Sasha Pezenik |Ashan Singh |Stephanie Lorenzo |Jessica Hopper |Deborah Kim |Josh Margolin

It appeared that the unsolved murder of rap star Tupac Shakur could not have been more cold. Nearly three decades ticked by with no arrests despite multiple public statements by a self-confessed Los Angeles gangbanger, and repeated comments that the police knew who was behind the 1996 drive-by off the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the scenes, authorities in Sin City were working quietly and steadily, pushing forward.

Nov 10, 2023 | abcnews.go.com | Tien Bischoff |Sabrina Shanghie |Jessica Hopper |Allie Weintraub

“There's not a hint or a trace that we ever existed here," one resident says. ByTien Bischoff, Sabrina Shanghie, Jessica Hopper, and Allie WeintraubNovember 10, 2023, 8:52 AMPearl Devers was just 12 years old when she says her childhood home was forcibly taken by the city of Palm Springs, California, in the 1960s. “The home that my father built -- it was burned, bulldozed over by the city fire department,” Devers told ABC News. “There's not a hint or a trace that we ever existed here. Not an ounce.