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Marc Hogan
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Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · Oct 27
Wrote about Setlst.fm for the @nytimes.com. Thanks @themountaingoats.bsky.social @plasmatron.bsky.social @superchunk.bsky.social and many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
www.nytimes.com
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akalhan.bsky.social
What if he invades Minnesota
January 15, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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yourfavrichauntie.bsky.social
Lexis/Nexis changed the Courtlink page and I don't like it. 👎🏿
January 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
Really at a loss for how many people from my old music journalism world are still over on Zuck/Musk platforms but not here. I get it, there are companies I can't quit either and right now Bluesky feels like mainly political news. But I just wonder what the red line could ever be?
January 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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pbump.com
Really working their way through the ol' First Amendment.
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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andybeta.bsky.social
Nineteen years ago today, Alice Coltrane/ Swamini Turiyasangitananda left this world. Yet her music continues to resonate and grow: andybeta.substack.com/p/cosmic-mus...
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
Swamini left us nineteen years ago, yet her legacy continues to grow
andybeta.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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laurenleharper.bsky.social
Put another way - an appeal helped force the Secret Service to reverse course on my FOIA request for records relating to the construction of the White House ballroom in even less time than it took the Trump administration to tear down the East Wing.
laurenleharper.bsky.social Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 2d
Last week the Secret Service tried to get out of conducting a FOIA search for records about construction of the White House ballroom by saying they were presidential records.

I appealed, and within a business day the agency reversed course and agreed to conduct a search.

Appeal. Appeal. Appeal.
January 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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jobdewit.bsky.social
My fav new album this week is Saints and Aliens by Sis and the Lower Wisdom, the new outfit from the Oakland-based 🇺🇸 artist Sis, who infuses her jazz-folk-pop music with East-Asian spirituality (and catchy melodies).

sisandthelowerwisdom.bandcamp.com/album/saints...
January 12, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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jenpkelly.bsky.social
Shocking news about Black Midi. Such a great, iconoclastic, original band. youtu.be/TMn1UuEIVvA?...
black midi - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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dadadrummer.bsky.social
So sorry to see this. Black Midi’s debut was a collision of ideas and personalities, an album that made the case for why bands are bands
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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amwclark.bsky.social
The Fed posted it here too. No need to watch it at the other place.
January 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
marchogan.bsky.social
Insanely fortunate to be able to walk around the Des Moines Art Center for free, casually discuss (say) a Frankenthaler with the family, and then come home and open the New Yorker to an article about a new MoMA exhibition devoted to her.
January 11, 2026 at 11:35 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
Would love to see Larry David take on the experience of buying movie tickets for a tiny theater, showing up right as the movie begins because you have assigned seats so why sit through trailers, and then people being in your seats and claiming they‘re theirs.
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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voguingtodanzig.bsky.social
theonion.com/we-gave-rex-...
We Gave Rex To A Nice Farm Family vs. They Had Me Put To Sleep At The Vet
Don’t you worry about Rex. Your father and I gave him to a nice farm family. Now he’ll be able to run and jump and play outside all day long.
theonion.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:25 AM
marchogan.bsky.social
my Bowie coverage on his passing was pretty niche, a look at his early online music fan community. but i remember what a frantic day it was, and i'm proud of how it turned out. my penultimate Billboard piece before p4k hired me f/t. many 10th anniversaries incoming! www.billboard.com/articles/bus...
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
Overheard on an elementary school playground at drop-off yesterday: "I'm stupid, not dumb!"
January 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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evien.bsky.social
You know what, there are too many definitions for the word “cardinal”.
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
Any excuse to reshare my meatiest piece of reporting (sorry) pitchfork.com/news/scott-w...
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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excellent nyt piece on tom verlaine's archives. he was such a great guy i miss him still.

no firewall

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...
Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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jelbugle.bsky.social
Listening to a classic indie pop obscurity for #CDFriday
The Owls - Daughters and Suns CD
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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ninametz.bsky.social
"it’s kind of crazy that we have to keep going over this, but the corruption remains so glaring"

I appreciate that, while nearly all the Hollywood trades are owned by the company putting on the Golden Globes and therefore just doing PR for this award show, The Ankler is NOT

Some key points 🧵
The Golden Globes Still Give The Ick
Plus: Movie theaters lobby Congress to act against WBD sale
theankler.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
A colorful story from before the holiday break: A Las Vegas investor who posts influencer content as Kris Krāze has filed a lawsuit over an alleged "sham" family office in Florida. My latest for The Allocator newsletter, from With Intelligence/S&P Global. pardot.withintelligence.com/e/284832/l-2...
Florida Man Fakes a Family Office Justin Godur and his father, Jaime Godur, both based in Boca Raton, “operated through a so-called ‘family office’ to project an illusion of immense wealth and success,” according to a recent lawsuit against the pair.   “By leveraging this facade,” the suit continues, the Godurs induced Nevada investor Kristopher Mullins and his Las Vegas-based business KCM Investments “to pay nearly half a million dollars for illusory lines of credit, sham business opportunities, and other nonexistent ventures.”    Capital Max’s website is no longer online, but a LinkedIn page still exists. As recently as February, the website called Capital Max “a commercial real estate family office” that offered “creative financing to help our clients fund deals,” supposedly including a $36.5m construction project in Miami, according to an archived page on the Wayback Machine.  Elsewhere, the site describes Capital Max as an “investment, advisory, and fund placement firm, with a focus on alternative investments.”    As for the plaintiff, Mullins also posts influencer-style online business content under the alias Kris Krāze. His YouTube channel has 164 videos and 900 subscribers.  According to the suit, Mullins and a business partner met Justin Godur in Las Vegas in November 2023. “Based on Godur’s representations, Mullins understood that Godur and his family ran a highly successful and wealthy family office comprised of different entities that offered lending to high-end clients for high-value investments and real estate purchases,” the complaint states.    Long story short(ish): From November 2023 to March 2024, Godur allegedly induced Mullins to pay Capital Max, then known as Q7Capital Group, a total of $430,000 to secure three lines of credit adding up to $750m. More payments followed. In the meantime, Mullins became chief marketing officer of the rebranded Capital Max in April 2024, traveling to Florida for two weeks at a time for the job. He wangled quotes as an expert source in articles by National Mortgage Professional, Realtor.com, Consumer Affairs, and more.      The case gets complicated in summer 2024. Around this time, Godur hired DeFrank as Capital Max’s director of real estate, according to the suit. Godur also allegedly told Mullins about a potential deal where an affiliate called Pinnacle One Capital Group would buy a residential property in Deerfield Beach and remodel it to add a second story.    According to the suit, Godur and DeFrank got Mullins to agree in advance that he would buy the Deerfield Beach property from Pinnacle Capital after the remodel.  Two of the non-Godur owners of Pinnacle Capital told Mullins in November 2024 that they believed Justin Godur had misappropriated $1m from a Pinnacle Capital fund, the suit says.    Will the real Kris Krāze please stand up?    Confronted by Mullins, Godur said he had never applied for one of the lines of credit but maintained that the other payments were legit, the complaint says.   Godur also allegedly told Mullins that the Deerfield Beach property could not, in fact, support a second story. Godur agreed in late November 2024 to repay Mullins $445,000, according to the suit. Eventually, Mullins was also able to cancel the purchase agreement for the Deerfield Beach property.    Shockingly, the accused phony family office head did not repay the real-life money, the complaint says. Ever the optimists that one day Capital Max would be a real firm, Godur promised to pay Mullins an additional $250,000 for his work as chief marketing officer.   Shockingly, the accused phony family office head did not repay the real-life money, the complaint says. Ever the optimists that one day Capital Max would be a real firm, Godur promised to pay Mullins an additional $250,000 for his work as chief marketing officer.   The Pinnacle Capital lawsuit    Pinnacle Capital sued Justin Godur, Jaime Godur, Mullins, and Capital Max in June 2025. The lawsuit alleges that to induce Pinnacle Capital to buy the Deerfield Beach property, Godur presented a misleading purchase agreement with Mullins’ help. The case is ongoing, state court records show.  Mullins, stiffed on his promised pay, is seeking damages for violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as civil conspiracy and various fraud-related counts.   A lawyer for Mullins and KCM Investments didn’t respond to a request for comment. The named attorneys for the defendants were unable to answer questions, as they’d quit or been dropped from the case. The 3,000+ single-family offices tracked by With Intelligence—real ones, we’re pretty sure—had $4.7trn in combined investable assets as of September. —Marc Hogan
January 6, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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katekilla.bsky.social
It’s not too late to get your flu shot or your Covid booster. Just did both today.
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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see-saw.fun
conde nast gave this guy pitchfork, and by my count, 19 staff from my time got cut or left. two years later, he's leaving to work with pharrell.

remembering that pitchfork was sold to conde nast with the understanding that conde would be good stewards of the publication. just reminiscing, is all.
Jessica Testa @jtes news: Will Welch is leaving GQ after nearly two decades (and 7+ years as EIC). He is moving to Paris to work with Pharrell across all of his ventures, including Louis Vuitton. It’s the third star editor shakeup at Condé Nast since June. story to come
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
My pro tip for dealing with negativity on this site is a trigger block finger and regularly asking for people to send you pictures of their pets. (Timeline cleanse!)

Maybe the most important: As SOON as things feel dogpile-y, get off for a few days. Like, immediately.
January 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
corin.bsky.social Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 9d
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM