Simon Reynolds
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What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton
He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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Donald 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
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
February 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Donald 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
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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Last week we shared the news that Simon Reynolds next book will be Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994
We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview
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We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview
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February 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Last week we shared the news that Simon Reynolds next book will be Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994
We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview
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We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview
buff.ly/RjqnUou
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Simon Reynolds is releasing a new book, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock 1984–1994
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February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Simon Reynolds is releasing a new book, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock 1984–1994
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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
January 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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).
Rangers: Suburban Tours
Read Simon Reynolds’ review of the album.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
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pitchfork.com/features/int...
An Interview with Lawrence, Icon of the Pop Underground
Across several terrific bands—Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart, Mozart Estate—the mononymous British singer-songwriter built an oeuvre of jangle-pop gems that flew unknown the radar. After a documentary an...
pitchfork.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for @pitchfork.com
pitchfork.com/features/int...
pitchfork.com/features/int...
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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.
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.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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.
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.
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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
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
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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...
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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...
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"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
👉👉 nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"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
👉👉 nokings.org
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I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch
8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)
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September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
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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"
Meet the Most Cracked Music Archivist Online
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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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.
July 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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
Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum
A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.
firstfloor.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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-...
RIP Keith Dobson
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July 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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...
The Dreamy Malaise of Post-Pandemic Alt-Rock
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...
pitchfork.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"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...
All Night at Swaggotfest
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he repo...
pitchfork.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA
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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
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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
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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.
June 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.
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"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...
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
No Kings. No Surrender.
Shows of force can work both ways.
www.thebulwark.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"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...
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...
NO KINGS PASADENA · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...