Simon Reynolds
Writer, music and other things
blissout.blogspot.com
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- Reposted by Simon ReynoldsDonald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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- Reposted by Simon ReynoldsSimon Reynolds is releasing a new book, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock 1984–1994 buff.ly/haXZ9vR
- 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...
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- 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"
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- 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
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- 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
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- Reposted by Simon ReynoldsEspecially 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.
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- I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
- Reposted by Simon Reynoldsmust be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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- 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.
- Reposted by Simon ReynoldsTHE 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...
- Reposted by Simon ReynoldsBREAKING: 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.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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"
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- 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...
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- Skeeting Skeeter, because.... youtu.be/xHa6a3FtPJg?...
- In happier times (3 weeks ago) I interviewed A.R. Kane. In unhappier times (today) it's the cover story of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social For more on the story and the newly active dreampop team, visit my blog blissout.blogspot.com/2024/11/drea...
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- Immerse yourself in The Deep Ark – an extraordinary 8-hr odyssey through 1990s Electronic Listening Music + website + lushly photo-illustrated book. An audio-visual-poetic celebration of a landscape-turned-dreamscape, site of ritual adventures thedeepark.com
- My new book FUTUROMANIA: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow’s Music Today is out today in the UK via White Rabbit. US edition out May 7 on Hachette. Full details at the blog, including my radio show for NTS. blissout.blogspot.com/2024/04/futu...
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- One of my favorite Pitchfork things is the Sunday Review - writers going long on records the magazine never got to cover before. After a tough week, it’s bittersweet to be this Sunday’s Reviewer, with a paean to Cocteau Twins and Head Over Heels pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
- An awful day for music journalism, music journalists – and for music, too. Salute to all the great editors I’ve worked with at Pitchfork and to my fellow contributors.
- My new book, Futuromania, will be out in the UK April 2024 on White Rabbit Books. The first 500 copies come with ltd edition zine via select record stores. Preorder here: geni.us/Futuromania
- Lovely to chat with Rudy Tambala of A.R. Kane about the wonderful A.R.Kive box set of their core creation circa 88/89. 3 hr memory-dive distilled into this Pitchfork Q+A. pitchfork.com/thepitch/ar-...
