Jonathan Coulton press coverage

I can't think of a proper name for this page, but I'll be bold, or at least italicized. A lot of this information should eventually be moved off the page -- consider this a depot for now.

(Also, the info here is not in any "proper" citation format -- my intent is to put it in reverse chronological order within each "category" and to get all the relevant details about each article, etc., onto this page somewhere.)

Articles about JoCo

• 2021-05-19: "The Princess Who Saved Herself Is a Rocking Good Time," by Henry Varona for CBR
• 2019-05-06: "What Happens When You Put 2,000 Nerds on a Boat?," by John Schwartz for The New York Times
• 2018-02-07: "Flying V keeps it weird with animal visions, puppetry and other fantastical elements," by Celia Wren for The Washington Post
• 2014-05-07: "Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma: Jonathan Coulton, Moral Rights, And A Proposal For The Reform Of 17 U.S.C. § 115(A)(2)," by Joe Newman for American University Intellectual Property Brief
• 2013-01-26: "Singer alleges ‘Glee’ ripped off his cover song," by Elizabeth Landau for CNN
• 2013-01-25: "Jonathan Coulton Explains How Glee Ripped Off His Cover Song — And Why He's Not Alone," by Laura Hudson for Wired
• 2013-01-25: "Musician Claims ‘Glee’ Stole His Version of ‘Baby Got Back’," by Jordan Zakarin for The Hollywood Reporter
• 2013-01-19: "Jonathan Coulton Claims Glee Ripped Off His Song," by Rusty Blazenhoff for Laughing Squid
• 2011-01-20: "Musicians like Jonathan Coulton build a grassroots following through Twitter follows," by Aaron Jentzen for Pittsburgh City Paper.
• 2009-02-02: "How Do I Become an Internet Rock Star on the Cheap?," by Jonathan Coulton for Popsci.
• 2009-01-14: "Jonathan Coulton is what happens when a computer geek starts making music," by Cory Casciato for Westword Denver.
• 2009-01-07: "Geek rocker Jonathan Coulton explores the weird. by John Zwick for YourHub.com.
• 2008-10-24: "Jonathon Coulton strikes a chord with students," by Matt Neuteboom for The Stute.
• 2008-09-28: "Web 2.Rockstar: The robotic tale of Jonathan Coulton," by Ben Kuchera for Ars Technica
• 2008-07-30: "Jonathan Coulton Feels Fantastic," by Megashaun for Popshifter.
• 2008-07-07: "Jonathan Coulton is Still Alive," by Kat Angus for dose.ca.
• 2008-05-01: "Songwriter Embraces Lyrical Nerdiness," By Jason Dean for The Capital Times
• 2008-04-18: "Money for Nothing -- the Coulton Conundrum," by Ralph for C.E. Conversations.
• 2008-02-17: "How to Become a Rock Star," by Kevin Sites for Yahoo News: People of the Web.
• 2008-01-01: "Sounding Off: Musicians finding fans through Internet," by Jason Bracelin, Las Vegas Review-Journal.
• 2007-12-07: "Jonathan Coulton's 'Chiron Beta Prime': The next holiday classic?," by Christine Fenno for Popwatch.
• 2007-11-14: Article in China Newsweek, in Chinese. (Coulton's blog post about it, in English.) (It is the article on page 82 listed at this link.)
• 2007-10-22: "The Story Behind That "Portal" Song, Its Place In Video Game History And Some Delicious Snacks [UPDATED]," by Stephen Totilo for MTV Multiplayer.
• 2007-10-12: "Pop Geek Jonathan Coulton Succeeds by Giving Music Away" by Mark Anderson at wired.com
• 2007-05-13: "Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog," by Clive Thompson for The New York Times.
• 2006-12-20: "New Marketing Gurus: Tariq Krim and Jonathan Coulton," by David Hornik for Venture Blog.
• 2006-10-10: "Jonathan Coulton Is a Better Marketer Than You," by James Belcher for eMarketer
• 2005-08-21: "Science pop," by Joshua Glenn of the Boston Globe

Interviews

See also Category:Interviews.

{* indicates it's an audio podcast, ** indicates that it includes live musical performances from JoCo}

(If it doesn't occur at the start, timestamps for when he begins singing are provided near links)

2021

• 2021-09-24: "The Comedian's Comedian Podcast 381 - Jonathan Coulton," by Stuart Goldsmith*
• 2021-02-08: "Jonathan Coulton (or The Great Singing Nerd Extraordinaire)," by Tim and Zach*

2018

• 2018-11-20: "Where Ya From? 02: Jonathan Coulton," by Sara Benincasa*
• 2018-03-28: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 7," by Ken Plume*

2017

• 2017-09-05: "Bullseye With Jesse Thorn - Tim Gunn & Jonathan Coulton," by Jesse Thorn for The Sound Of Young America on NPR*
• 2017-05-23: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 6," by Ken Plume*
• 2017-05-08: "Interview: Jonathan Coulton and the monsters among us," by Ian Firstenberg for Riff Magazine

2016

• 2016-04-12: "An Interview with Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm at ECCC 2016," by Jess Casebeer

2014

• 2014-10-06: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 5," by Ken Plume*
• 2014-01-23: "Malignant Brain Humor 62: Jonathan Coulton," by Mike Blejer*

2011

• 2011-12-16: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 4," by Ken Plume*
• 2011-08-01: "A Conversation With John Flansburgh And Jonathan Coulton," by Chris Chafin on The Awl
• 2011-06-23: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 3," by Ken Plume*
• 2011-05-13: "An Internet Rock Star Tells All," by Alex Blumberg for Planet Money on NPR*
• 2011-04-25: "Carpetbagging Interlopers: Jonathan Coulton," by Art Allen for Guffaw
• 2011-03-18: "Dave Does PAX East 2011 - Interview with Jonathan Coulton," by Dave Ganssle*

2010

• 2010-11-16: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton 2," by Ken Plume*
• 2010-10-??: "The New Music Biz: Cracking the Code to Online Success," by Jacob Templin for Time.com*
• 2010-09-07: "Jonathan Coulton · ID10T With Chris Hardwick," by Chris Hardwick for ID1OT w/ Chris Hardwick** (Jonathan Coulton begins singing at 20:54)
• 2010-05-12: "Maker's New Math: Jonathan Coulton, Role Model," by Noah Nelson for Youth Radio*
• 2010-05-06 "Big Think Interview With Jonathan Coulton," by Austin Allen for Big Think** (Jonathan Coulton begins singing at 38:32)
• 2010-04-01: "Split Screen Radio Episode 3: Paul & Storm AND Jonathan Coulton," by mightbeoutthere for Split Screen Radio*
• 2010-03-26: "In honor of PAX East: An extended Jonathan Coulton interview," by Shaula Clark for The Boston Phoenix
• 2010-03-15: "Portal’s Minstrels: An Interview With The Men Behind The Music," by Ben Reeves for Game Informer
• 2010-02-21: "Pioneer Log’s Nerdwatch: Jonathan Coulton complete interview," by Angela Webber for Pioneer Log
• 2010-01-11: "A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Jonathan Coulton," by Ken Plume*

2009

• 2009-11-11: "Interview and Live Performance: Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm," by Absolute Radio on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
• 2009-06-04: "Bullseye With Jesse Thorn - Jonathan Coulton," by Jesse Thorn for The Sound of Young America on NPR** (Jonathan Coulton begins singing at 9:17)
• 2009-05-30: "Interview: Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm," by Brian Richardson and Chris Lloyd for WhatTheCast*
• 2009-02-23: "Audio Sessions - Episode 3 - Interview with Jonathan Coulton," for The Plan8 Podcast*
• 2009-01-18: 'East Meets West 148," for East meets West
• 2009-01-15: "Q&A with Jonathan Coulton," by Cory Casciato for Westword Denver
• 2009-01-12: "Internet Troubador: A Talk With Jonathan Coulton," by Rob for Charge Shot
• 2009-01-07: "Audio: Interview with Jonathan Coulton," for Non Vivant*

2008

• 2008-12-19: "Exclusive John Coulton Interview," for Digital Gigolo
• 2008-10-27: "Feature-Jonathan Coulton, Singer, Songwriter, Internet Superstar.," by Martin for Ready Up
• 2008-10-21: Listen Up! #55 Jonathan Coulton," by Arthur for Listen Up!**
• 2008-10-01: "Interview: Jonathan Coulton," for Geek Planet
• 2008-09-29: "Episode 11: Moving Monkeys," by Terry Bartley for the Super Cool Stuff Show
• 2008-07-22: "Interviews Jonathan Coulton," by Gus Mastrapa for The Onion A.V. club
• 2008-07-07: "More with Jonathan Coulton," by KATV for TV Casulaty on Dose.ca
• 2008-06-25: "Jonathan Coulton Q&A," for the machinima music video contest
• 2008-06-20: "Interview: Jonathan Coulton," by Shaun Hatton with Toronto Thumbs- News for the Canadian Gamer
• 2008-06-20: "Random Rules: Jonathan Coulton," by David Wolinsky for The Onion A.V. club
• 2008-06-19: "Podcast Interview: Jonathan Coulton," by Horse Pig Cow.
• 2008-06-01: Interview with DJ Octoon for "I'm in a Band" on UCLA Radio, archived on Spiff's website
• 2008-05-21: "SXSW Jonathan Coulton," by Daisy Whitney for TVWeek (hosted by searchforvideo.com due to lack of availability of original source)
• 2008-05-01: "Jonathan Coulton: Still alive at the Varsity," by Ward Rubrecht for City Pages
• 2008-04-25: "Matt & Emily on BTR, direct link to podcast by Matt and Emily for Break Thru Radio
• 2008-04-25: "Scott Dally Filmfever Radio Jonathan Colton Interview," by Rick Emerson
• 2008-04-02: "Episode 100: The Human Human, Jonathan Coulton," by Jared Axelrod for Free Planet X
• 2008-03-27: "New Podcast: An Interview With Jonathan Coulton," by E-Gear
• 2008-03-21: "Technology in the Arts #38," by Brad Stephenson for Technology in the Arts
• 2008-03-20: "Podcast Party 2," by Geoff for Virgin Radio
• 2008-03-17: "Beating The System One Awesome Song At A Time: Jonathan Coulton," by yatesy for StuffWeLike
• 2008-03-15: "Podcast Notes: A look back at SXSW," by Chris Vallance for Radio 5 live's Pods and Blogs
• 2008-03-13: "Geekspeak Season 5, Episode 9," by Bryan for Geekspeak Radio
• 2008-03-12: "The Samantha Murphy show," Episode 1 of the Samantha Murphy show
• 2008-03-10: "You Ruined Everything: GeekDad Interviews Jonathan Coulton," for wired.com
• 2008-02-25: "TWiT 133: Jonathan Coulton - Functional And Elegant," hosted by Leo Laporte and friends, from the This Week in Tech podcast
• 2008-02-21: "Geek rocker Jonathan Coulton video," for CNET TV
• 2008-01-23: "Jonathan Coulton," by extraview
• 2008-01-03: "Jonathan Coulton / Former Software Engineer Turned Singer Songwriter," by LX

I could watch Schindler's List and still be happy after reading this.

2007

• 2007-02-21: "Best Friends with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn," by Jesse Thorn for The Sound of Young America/Maximum Fun on NPR (audio podcast)*

2006

• 2006-12-10: "Witty Tunes Are Jonathan Coulton's 'Thing'," audio interview NPR Weekend Edition*
• 2006-12-01: "Sir Geek-a-Lot goes beyond the funny," by John Scalzi, Dayton Daily News. (See more excerpts from the interview at Scalzi's blog, Whatever.)
• 2006-09-28: "Quick Stop Interview: Jonathan Coulton," by Ken Plume for Quick Stop Entertainment
• 2006-09-12: "THE SECOND LIFE OF JONATHAN COULTON-- AN NWN INTERVIEW," by Wagner James for New World Notes
• 2006-08-10: "Episode 25 - Interview with Jonathan Coulton," by Paul and Martha Fischer for ADD cast*
• 2006-07-25: "Interview With Jonathan Coulton, Song Writing Machine," for GarageSpin
• 2006-05-27: "Jonathan Coulton: The WFW Interview, Part 1 and Part 2," by Dave Lifton for Wings for Wheels. The audio of the interview is also available on his podcast*
• 2006-05-16: "Episode 10: Jonathan Coulton," hosted by Chris Miller for the podcast Unquiet Desperation*
• 2006-03-14: "Slice of SciFi #48: Interview with Jonathan Coulton," by Summer Brooks for Slice of SciFi

2005

• 2005-11-14: "Music Monday Podcast, JoCo episode," from trumix.com*
• 2005-08-19: "Clambake Episode for August 19, 2005," rumoured to be the first podcast interview with JoCo*

2004

• 2004-08-12: "5x5 Interview: Jonathan Coulton, Software Designer and Songwriter," by Andrew Krucoff, Gawker

Non-Interview Podcasts

• 2008-05-01: "Radio Free Burrito Episode 12," hosted by Wil Wheaton.
• 2006-03-21: "Spurious Facts About Jonathan Coulton," by Mark Forman(bbluesman).
• 2006-02-21: "Bookcast at Powells.com," with John Hodgman. Songs include Skullcrusher Mountain, Sweet Information and Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Jawbone Radio

• 2006-01-16: "Jawbone #93: The Wonderfully Magical Mystical World Of Jonathan Coulton." first appearance of JoCo on Jawbone Radio.
• 2006-04-04: "Jawbone #105: Zombies, Monsters and Louisville Don't Mix," the debut of the thing a week segment in Jawbone (Re: Your Brains), to be found starting in the 17th minute.
• 2006-04-09: "Jawbone #106: We're Not Living In CrazyTown," this times thing a week is Chiron Beta Prime, to be found starting in the 29th minute.
• 2006-04-18: "Jawbone #107: My Hair Is Falling Out," this times thing a week is Code Monkey, to be found starting in the 28th minute (JoCo could not make it in but feature is still there with Len talking).
• 2006-04-23: "Jawbone #108: The Dave Devries Special Collectors Issue," this times thing a week is the Future Soon, to be found starting in the 34th minute (JoCo could not make it in but feature is still there with Dave Devries talking).
• 2006-04-30: "Jawbone #109: Calling Dr. Shlabotnik," this times thing a week is Shop Vac, to be found starting in the 23rd minute.
• 2006-05-13: "Jawbone #111: Yet Another Palindromic Show," this times thing a week is Millionaire Girlfriend, to be found starting in the 23rd minute.
• 2006-05-29: "Jawbone #113: Cravin' Raisins and Pork Chops," this times thing a week is Til The Money Comes, to be found starting in the 17th minute.
• 2006-06-06: "Jawbone #114: The Podcast of the Beast," this times thing a week is Tom Cruise Crazy, to be found starting in the 29th minute (JoCo could not make it in but feature is still there with Len talking).
• 2006-06-14: "Jawbone #115: Are We Awake?," this times thing a week is Soft Rocked By Me, to be found starting in the 33rd minute.
• 2006-07-05: "Jawbone #118: Bill Maynard And The Terror of Fu Manchu," this times thing a week is Rock and Roll Boy, to be found starting in the 39th minute.
• 2006-07-17: "Jawbone #120: This Is the Best Time of Your Life," this times thing a week is Pizza Day, to be found starting in the 30th minute.
• 2006-07-23: "Jawbone #121: Do You Want A Turkey?," this times thing a week is Skymall, to be found starting in the 31st minute.
• 2006-07-30: "Jawbone #122: Down With The Clown," this times thing a week is Seahorse, to be found starting in the 22nd minute.
• 2006-08-05: "Jawbone #123: Bees In A Basket of Fried Chicken," this times thing a week is Creepy Doll, to be found starting in the 28th minute.
• 2006-08-14: "Jawbone #124: Undead Toes Get Fontified," this times thing a week is Drinking With You, to be found starting in the 27th minute.
• 2006-08-20: "Jawbone #125: In Search Of...Apelad," this times thing a week is Under The Pines, to be found starting in the 24th minute.
• 2006-08-28: "Jawbone #126: Housekeeping! Housekeeping!," this times thing a week is Big Bad World One, to be found starting in the 26th minute.
• 2006-09-05: "Jawbone #127: What Smells Like Wet Pants?," this times thing a week is Mr. Fancy Pants, to be found starting in the 25th minute.
• 2006-09-18: "Jawbone #129: The Busy Busy Hectic Week of Busy-ness," this times thing a week is You Ruined Everything, to be found starting in the 29th minute.
• 2006-09-28: "Jawbone #130: He is An Indivigible (REPOST)," this times thing a week is I'm Your Moon, to be found starting in the 15th minute.
• 2006-10-24: "Jawbone #134: Halloween in the Nobby Annex," this times thing a week is The Big Boom, to be found starting in the 28th minute.
• 2006-10-31: "Jawbone #135: Hauntings, Birthdays, Superheroes and Body Slams," this times thing a week is Pull the String, to be found starting in the 22nd minute.
• 2006-11-19: "Jawbone #138: Murder is Afoot!," this times thing a week is Make You Cry, to be found starting in the 21st minute.
• 2006-12-03: "Jawbone #140: Inside the Muscian's Studio with Joco, Paul and Storm," this is an interview with JoCo and Paul and Storm.
• 2009-02-05: "Jawbone #237: Coulton - Best. Interview. Ever.," this is an interview with JoCo.

Honourable mentions

• Dateless: "Jonathan Coulton," at the Creative Commons wiki.
• Dateless: "Podcast," live recording of JoCo at Pop! Tech.
• 2008-03-22: "Jonathan Coulton at Dingwalls, London," by MaW at his blog.
• 2007-09-25: "Jonathan Coulton," by Joe Schmetzer at his blog.
• 2007-09-21: "Jonathan Coulton: Zombie Fighting Troubadour pt. 1, pt. 2," by Joel Watson for Hijinks Ensue.
• 2006-04-25: "The Daily Show - Essay Contest," featuring Song by JoCo about dropping snakes from airplanes.