John Norris

Bio

John Norris is a veteran music journalist, who began his career as a writer, editor, correspondent, and anchor at MTV News. Following MTV, he served as Managing Editor and Host of the music discovery site Noisevox, and as Supervising Producer of News at Fuse. His freelance work includes music and culture writing for GQ, Esquire, Billboard, The Daily Beast, VICE, NYLON, SPIN, Pigeons & Planes, VMAN, and Lyrical Lemonade. He has written, hosted, and moderated programming for Sirius XM, The Recording Academy, South By Southwest, and the Bonnaroo and Sasquatch music festivals. He is a longtime New Yorker and self-described “retrophobe,” a word his brother insists he invented.