Stephen Thompson
Music Reviewer/Producer
Stephen Thompson.
Stephen Thompson is an online producer for NPR Digital Media, where he edits and contributes to Song of the Day (a daily column on NPR.org), among other music-related projects.
In 1993, Thompson created The Onion's entertainment section, The A.V. Club, which he edited until December 2004. As a music commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, he has discussed topics ranging from summer pop anthems to his own bizarrely ill-conceived 2,500-mile road trip to attend 2006's South By Southwest music festival. His entertainment writing has also run in Paste magazine, The Washington Post, and The London Guardian.
During his tenure at The Onion, Thompson edited the 2002 book The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations with Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders (Crown), and copy-edited six best-selling comedy books. While there, he also coached The Onion's softball team to a sizzling 21-42 record, and was once outscored 72-0 in a span of 10 innings.
A 1994 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Thompson now lives in Silver Spring, Md., with his wife and two children. His hobbies include watching reality television without shame, touting the immutable moral superiority of the Green Bay Packers, and maintaining a fierce rivalry with all Midwestern states other than Wisconsin.
