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I love reading @marissarmoss.bsky.social's profiles in @rollingstone.com of my fave country musicians. So, I was excited to discover, from this essay she wrote for @texashighways.bsky.social, that her love of country comes from riding horses in Texas. #longreads texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

thanks @hoinski.bsky.social for bringing me in to ruminate on my summers riding horses in Texas, and how they shaped me as a country music fan long (something it took me many years to realize). always fun to get to go personal like this. texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

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This, exactly.

One of the better newsletters imo

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.

On Margo Price, Kimmel and listening to what women say the *first time* www.dontrocktheinbox.com/special-note...

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Can’t believe I was worried about AI coming for journalists last week man we’re so fucked sorry I ain’t got nothing more profound right now

and sometimes I think about how "liberal Hollywood" helped make this fella a star

stop whining about how there is no more good criticism out there, realize you only mean angry men and then subscribe to Don't Rock the Inbox

the Trump administration told The New York Times that IUDs, hormonal implants, and the Pill are actually abortions open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

If you told me that BOTH of these men are doing this as part of a marketing plan, I’d believe you. Yes I said both

😂☺️

Pass-free for American Fest this year? We got u

niche post but there is too much at Americana Fest this year. straight up too much, all spread all across the city. in a city without any real public transport, this feels a lil impossible

My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here: www.hbglibrary.com/titles/jonat...

Support Outlaw Country* *two women (actually two mothers, almost!) telling you what country music to listen to www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...

Just felt like re-upping this today

honestly I can handle a bunch of country dudes yelling at each other about being more outlaw than thou, tale as old as time, but regular dudes on the internet taking it all seriously is FAR worse

shouts out @marissarmoss.bsky.social whose GQ tyler childers profile touched on live vs studio fights and etiquette that i also couldn't wait to bring to big thief www.gq.com/story/tyler-...

just a reminder that we are on ghost, not substack; if you are looking for a newsletter to support that is women-owned and run and trying to do our best not to support evil empires you could do worse

We let it rip this week on the newsletter all for the love of our paid subs ❤️❤️ 🧨🧨

We talk a lot about adults becoming desensitized to shootings. We don't talk enough about the KIDS. When there was a threat at my son's school this wk, all the kids joked about dressing like power rangers to fight a gunman + not wanting to die in a soccer jersey. Adults have let them down THAT MUCH.

- @marissarmoss.bsky.social got Ketch Secor — that's the lead singer of Old Crow Medicine Show, yes of "Wagon Wheel" fame — to do our DRTI quasi-Proust questionnaire!! - www.dontrocktheinbox.com/issue-113-ke...

well, Lana....

i want everybody who laments the state of crit today to find and boost some that they enjoy

yes, I don't think people consider how much this impacted the future of these women's careers & cultural perceptions AND shaped the lives of the fans who had to form their opinions about music AND LIFE despite men writing this shit. Anyway. That's my next book.

Yes. I've done stories (+ a whole book) that criticize institutions/report on sexual harassment, inequities, etc but that never ranks as "tough" on certain dude charts - instead, they try to discredit by calling my profile work (which isn't criticism) "puff." (puff they can't stop talking about lol)

if you are worried that there aren't enough negative music reviews i encourage you to subscribe to Don't Rock The Inbox where calling bad music what it is is part of our founding concept :) www.dontrocktheinbox.com

this is a HUGE part of my experience growing up as both a music fan & wanna be music journalist. I saw the women I loved to listen to routinely destroyed in the press by beloved journalists, often, it seemed, for sport. "mean male critic" was a caricature for me, to a point.

"The "mean" critics he cites are all dudes" is not a small point here

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the title of every think piece that makes me angry in the past two years

me, reading so many articles about the "country music boom"

wrote something pretty personal about my time in Texas for this issue, thanks so much for the assignment Mike

Since I can’t solve the astronomically bigger problems in this world I’m begging people to please stop being so weird about country music when writing about country music!!!!

if you're curious to learn about "what caused the current country boom" might i recommend a little newsletter called Don't Rock The Inbox :) www.dontrocktheinbox.com

Still the best and only meme on the internet for me

High Horse core

Sometimes you get lucky, even in a time when it’s hard to believe in luck anymore. I got lucky last week and saw Tyler Childers playing in the shadow of a giant T-Rex on the side of a highway. I was so happy on the way home I didn’t even think about my bitin’ list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

wrote about why i resent "i hope you dance" for the latest don't rock the inbox www.dontrocktheinbox.com/i-hope-you-d...

Should I pin this