Jessica Lipsky
is an editor and reporter covering culture, politics and music. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, PRI’s “The World,” Newsweek, Salon, Billboard, Wax Poetics, Remezcla, Vice, Brooklyn Magazine, Thrillist, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jessica is the author of the award-winning book It Ain’t Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution (Jawbone Press). She is the senior editor of the Recording Academy’s GRAMMY.com.
Jessica has extensively covered soul, funk, reggae and alternative Latin genres as a music journalist, including multiple first-to-print profiles on up-and-coming artists. She regularly pens authoritative features on subculture, broke several music industry-focused #MeToo stories and also writes on the business of music.
As a content developer and strategist, Jessica develops marketing and social copy, as well as bios for executives, businesses and bands. Jessica has produced multiple true crime documentary episodes for Viceland and consulted for BBC music docuseries.
When she’s not pursuing the unusual, you can hear Jessica on the radio as Terry Dactyl (KUSF/SFCR and KPOO 89.5 FM) or behind the wheels of steel at a local bar.
There’s more to come, so don’t touch that dial.