My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

Wrote about one of my fave records of the 21st Century, the 2010 Rangers album Suburban Tours, whose dreamy guitar haze is shot through with nostalgia for growing up amid Sun Belt sprawl. An opportunity also to get a jump on nostalgia for chillwave (a genre itself shot through with nostalgia).

Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/features/int...

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is

I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18." 👉👉 nokings.org

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"

Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...

"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...

For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social‬ reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...

Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?" www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.

A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

Shite Lotus more like

In Rabbit Holed, his Pitchfork column, @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social dives into the world of experimental ASMR, an evolving internet-folk form that keeps pushing to new extremes of wacked-out weirdness pitchfork.com/thepitch/cra...

Yesterday I testified before Texas's Senate Committee on Education K-16, against Senate Bill 13, which would affectively ban supposedly "indecent" and "profane" books in public school classrooms and libraries. Here's a clip:

We're watching the on-video confession of the Trump-Russia scandal.

Hiding from the horrors of the present in the social problems of the past - vintage World In Actions, the BBC Archive bonanza and the Campaign for Real Ale hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Rabbit Holed, @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social Pitchfork column, explores the cult around the Survivor incidental music + underscores pitchfork.com/thepitch/mee...

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

A blogpost about Phil Mogg's arse hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...

Kieran’s new music+meme culture column Rabbit Holed for @pitchfork.com kicks off with profile of rage rap prince OsamaSon pitchfork.com/thepitch/osa...

RIP to Terror Danjah - not just grime's greatest producer but one of the most thrillingly inventive electronic musicians of the 21st Century. Here's my line note for Planet Mu's Danjah comp Gremlinz, plus Q+ A with Terror energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2025/02/rip-...

Gen Alpha icon + Twitch streamer Fanum profiled by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social who says "Fanum and his peers are... creating the public-access TV of the 2020s, only if public-access TV could make you rich"

The world is still catching up to Annette Peacock

I profiled the divine Natasha Lyonne and I dare you to resist her charms www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Severance season 2 is finally here. Exploitative billionaires, corporate trickery and desire to escape real world misery—it’s the perfect vibe for 2025 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Go-bags, fire apps, windows tape-sealed against smoke and soot - snapshots of living five miles from the firestorm by @joypress.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

A fundraiser for Altadena resident Bennie Maupin, who played on amazing 70s albums by Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, The Headhunters etc, recorded his ECM solo classic The Jewel In the Lotus, etc. Lost his home of 25 years, instruments, photos, everything www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-m...

Today's listening... Revisiting @simonreynolds.bsky.social’s mix for NTS from earlier this year, as he shared an hour of music featured in his latest book #FUTUROMANIA - exploring the vanguardist electronic music which prefigured the pop of the future. 🎛️ www.nts.live/shows/guests...

Ya está disponible la versión en español de Futuromania de @simonreynolds.bsky.social blissout.blogspot.com/2024/12/futu...

I wrote the first profile of 2hollis - "hyperpop's Justin Bieber" "guy who out-aura'd Ken Carson" "Kylie Jenner's favorite new-gen" - he pulled back the curtain about everything, from his childhood to his industry connects to his love of Zyzz: www.complex.com/pigeons-and-...

If you miss the Village Voice, follow these wonderful people from my starter pack! go.bsky.app/C45D6iZ

new yorkers of bluesky, I helped curate this free show w/ Mark Leckey within his new exhibition at Gladstone Gallery come hang 8pm on Saturday Nov 23 it will be swell

I wrote about upsammy's wonderfully soothing new album, a sweet soundtrack for giving your brain a break from all the maddening chaos pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...