Michael Tedder has written about music, film, television, health, and masculinity for Esquire, Playboy, The New Republic, Stereogum, Vulture, Variety, The Daily Beast, The Ringer, The Village Voice and MEL. He is the former Managing Editor of the music magazine CMJ and the pop culture magazine Paper, and was a founding editor of the critical discussion website The Talkhouse. He co-founded the New York-based music critic reading series and podcast Words and Guitars.