In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"

Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...

lord help me i'm writing about "male loneliness"

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

friends, please share widely, on & off social media. let’s get this in front of as many musicologists and AMS members’ eyes as we can. if you’ve ever been a member of the Society, in any capacity, please consider taking a look & signing (& you can sign anonymously!)

A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!

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in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

FRIDAY IN PROVIDENCE: Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.

Tonight!!

heteropessimism file: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6o...

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

This is so bad. Teen Vogue had some of the last quality political coverage in the mainstream media.

A few years ago I replied to a twitter thread about improvisation by recommending some other folks' work. Sheila, insightful, perhaps picking up my nervousness, inquired about my own. I was dead thrilled that she ended up citing me in her gorgeous book Hanging Out, and am now doubly grateful.

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

The last bastion of good journalism in any kind of a mainstream outlet is gone. Lex did incredible work when every place else was already way beyond the pale. A huge loss.

Providence! On November 14 I'll be conversation with @robinjames.bsky.social about Big Feelings and The Future of Rock & Roll: Modern, indie, alternative, and all things rock related, from radio programming and corporate consolidation to queer community building and esoteric imagery. Please share!

PROVIDENCE RI people - join @dandipiero.bsky.social and I at Symposium Books on 11/14 at 6 to hear us talk about our books BIG FEELINGS & my FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL. Together those book basically cover the entire history of indie rock in Ohio. www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

Reading Eric's wonderful/extensive essay on "peak indie," it occurred to me that while scholars are increasingly citing substacks/music journalism in our work, that makes it even more frustrating when the reverse isn't true across the trade/academic divide. ericdharvey.substack.com/p/everything...

AMS Crowd, please considering joining us for a fun conversation about indie rock, affective feminism, queer community, and big feelings! subtextbooks.com/events/48598

Goodnight, maestro

Cleveland on Thursday! With @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social at Mac's, also 7pm. 💜💜

Columbus tonight! Talking Big Feelings with @barryshank.bsky.social at Prologue books from 7–8ish

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

“When you have a disability people can’t see,” Joy says of her daughter, “you don’t get as much empathy.” The long Covid numbers are enormous, rivaling conditions like ADHD and autism as one of the most common chronic diseases in American youth today. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

my god, so rarely are we gifted the opportunity for the kind of grace that's available from Scriabin's Two Mazurkas op. 40 no. 2 in F# major SPECIFICALLY and we are just WHAT—RUSHING THE FUCK THROUGH THEM?? How are all these recordings > 2:00 long?!! What is HAPPENING

Episode 3 is out now. Evan and I talk about punk, hardcore, and being tender with each other. I think you'll like it. dandipiero.substack.com/p/3-hardcore...

A box full of tacks dandipiero.substack.com/p/not-on-het...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

back before I started my current in-house job I had the distinct pleasure of copyediting this book. very smart analysis and written with a lot of heart. highly recommended!

@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social is amazing and if you don’t know you know!!

@dandipiero.bsky.social's book "Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl" is now available! Sample the book's music playlist and read an excerpt at press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-...

It's publication day! See below for links/events/playlists/all things Big Feelings. With tremendous gratitude to everyone who helped along the way. dandipiero.substack.com/p/pub-day

Why do some songs stick with us? @dandipiero.bsky.social answered some questions about his new book "Big Feelings" and discussed how "the entire project has been a joy to write" in our newest blog post. Take a look at press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/10...

I think the thing with swift is just as plain as it always has been: it's about whiteness, and the narcissism of elevating the specifically mundane/banal dramas of white normativity into epic struggles, which is why it overlaps with right wing grievance politics affectively if not literally.

I’m gonna be on a bus but will be trying to stream anyway! Independent radio and Ohio oriented indie? what could be better my dudes. 💜

This Sunday from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll feature some "Big Feelings" music and talk a little about @dandipiero.bsky.social 's new book (out Tuesday!) bc if anyone gets the weirdness of being an indie music fan amid Hell Is Real it's Inhailer listeners

Episode 2 is up now dandipiero.substack.com/p/2-jazz-is-...

🎸 We're eagerly anticipating next week's release of "Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl." Dan DiPiero delves into the indie music revival by young, queer, feminist artists reworking 90s grunge and 2000s pop. @dandipiero.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4gdI40o