About Fluxblog

My name is Matthew Perpetua, and I’ve been writing Fluxblog on nearly every weekday since February of 2002. I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and I grew up in a small town called Cold Spring, which is located about 80 minutes north of Manhattan. I am a graduate of Parsons School of Design.

I served as the Director of Quizzes and Games at BuzzFeed from 2014 through early 2019, and before that I was the site’s music editor and primary music critic from 2012 through 2014. You can find some of my favorite BuzzFeed work here, and a portfolio summing up my behind the scenes work here.

Prior to that I worked at Rolling Stone and Public Radio International, and was a contributor to Pitchfork, Vulture, Spin, Associated Press, MTV, eMusic, Slate, and The Atlantic.

More recently I have contributed to NPR and Decider, wrote liners for a forthcoming reissue project for Concord Music Group, and worked as a consultant for a variety of companies developing quiz products.

I run a second blog called House of X in which I write critical essays about X-Men comics, and recap/review the current ongoing Jonathan Hickman run on Marvel’s X-books.

I am also the author of Pop Songs 07-08, a website in which I wrote an entry for every album track and notable rarity in the R.E.M. discography. You can find a digest version of the site with the songs arranged into albums here.

Email Fluxblog: perpetua[AT]gmail.com

If you want to send music to Fluxblog, please inquire via email. Please note that while I am always glad to be sent new music, there is no guarantee that what you send will be mentioned here. If you are an artist (or represent an artist) being featured on this blog and want me to take down a song, let me know, and it will be removed immediately.