Prior to this he was a senior fellow at Media Matters for America for ten years and a staff writer for Salon for five years.
Before that he wrote about the music industry as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and as a staff writer at Billboard.
Boehlert died on April 4, 2022, after being struck by a train in Montclair, New Jersey, while cycling.
He is survived by his wife, Tracy Breslin, and two children, Jane and Ben.