Jeff Gage is a New York-based writer, reporter, podcaster, and educator with more than a decade’s experience as a music journalist. His writing appears in Playboy, Esquire, The Washington Post, VICE, Billboard, GQ, SPIN, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Texas Monthly, and Rolling Stone, where he became a regular contributor to the country music section in 2017. He has appeared on Minnesota Public Radio, KXT 91.7 FM, and KNON 89.3 FM, and participated in Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop and Nashville Scene’s music critics’ polls.

His reporting has taken him to Willie Nelson’s ranch in Texas, Prince’s Paisley Park in Minnesota, and to the deserts of Marfa, Texas, and Joshua Tree National Park. He’s reviewed shows at legendary venues like Madison Square Garden, First Avenue, and Ryman Auditorium, and covered music festivals such as South by Southwest, Pitchfork, Austin City Limits, and AmericanaFest in Nashville. He’s written news, features, longform, investigative reporting, reviews, essays, profiles, and opinion pieces.

After getting his start as an intern at City Pages, an award-winning alternative news weekly in Minneapolis, Jeff spent four years there on staff before serving as Music Editor at Dallas Observer from 2014 to 2016. More than a dozen of Jeff’s longform stories appeared on the cover of these publications. While at the Observer, he booked, scheduled, and hosted the Dallas Observer Music Awards, an annual, two-night event including a music showcase and awards ceremony, on three occasions.

Since 2021, he’s served as a freelance Editor in Chief for A360 Media and Centennial Media, overseeing the publication of 100-page commemorative magazines on artists like Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, and the Notorious B.I.G.

Jeff’s work experience includes video and audio recording and editing, social media, SEO, metadata, web analytics, newsletters, and basic HTML and web design. He’s been a speaker and moderator for panel discussions and a featured guest in several college journalism classes.

As an educator, Jeff is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York, where he teaches Arts & Entertainment Reporting and Cultural Issues and serves as a capstone advisor for masters students. He led a workshop, “Can Art Survive A.I.?,” at CUNY Newmark in January 2024. He also works as a thesis advisor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, previously taught journalism and media studies at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York, and was an instructor for the CLARIFY Youth Program, a six-week summer journalism internship for high schoolers organized by City Limits, in the summer of 2025.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Jeff received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College, where he majored in Literary Studies and worked for the campus newspaper and radio station. In May 2020, he earned his M.A. degree through Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s Arts & Culture program.

For further reading, please visit Jeff’s author pages at Rolling Stone and Dallas Observer.