Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad has been Senior Music Editor at Variety since April 2017. Previously, he held senior posts at Billboard, MTV News, Spin, Time Out New York, CMJ; Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Caroline Records; and his writing has appeared in New York, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, Esquire and other publications. He frequently lectures at Syracuse University’s Bandier (music business) Program and New York University and has appeared discussing music and the music business on CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, BBC America, NPR, Nightline, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning and others.