New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

This is a cool, very well-written piece by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social on where phonk is at these days
for @pitchfork.com includes lines like "Audio creatine, max-protein milk for your ears, these tracks radiate power." lol
pitchfork.com/thepitch/how... #driftphonk #phonk

we are witnessing an attempt at nationwide forcible detransition led in part by a man who rejected his own trans child

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

for GQ, I flew to LA to hang out with Fanum—I unpacked his rise and tried to pierce the smooth surface of this Gen Alpha icon, motivational coach, Marina AbramoTwitch-ian star, who helped turn the 'Just Chatting' livestream genre into a million-dollar career

www.gq.com/story/fanum-...

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"

It's been a horrifying week in LA. Here's my @vanityfair.com diary of life in the danger zone www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

#13 OF 2024 - bleood - "ooo" / yuke - "ian goin"

REPORT: ‘Symphony of Shrill’ Strains the Bounds of Listenability In Paradigm-Shifting Survey

www.kprblog.fyi/p/13-bleood-...

My #14 of the year: 2hollis' "crush"

Pop ballad? Rawstyle? Trojan Horsed chaos

www.kprblog.fyi/p/14-2hollis...

for the next 15 days I'll be posting my top 15 songs of the year with little blurbs on my newsletter—had a lot of fun with this one

#15: wokeups' "fragged aht"

www.kprblog.fyi/p/15-wokeups...

starting this week, going to post 1 blurb a day counting down my favorite songs of the year . . . check it out @
www.kprblog.fyi

my fave albums of the year unranked 8-)

I wrote the first profile of 2hollis - "hyperpop's Justin Bieber" "guy who out-aura'd Ken Carson" "Kylie Jenner's favorite new-gen" - he pulled back the curtain about everything, from his childhood to his industry connects to his love of Zyzz:

www.complex.com/pigeons-and-...

I wrote about upsammy's wonderfully soothing new album, a sweet soundtrack for giving your brain a break from all the maddening chaos

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

new yorkers of bluesky, I helped curate this free show w/ Mark Leckey within his new exhibition at Gladstone Gallery

come hang 8pm on Saturday Nov 23 it will be swell

i was woken up this morning by a noise that i thought was people having sex outside but it was just a guy jump roping violently

inaugural bluesky self-promo: I wrote about the sweet, surprise new collab album from Fimiguerrero, Len, and Lancey Foux, three leaders of a new era of UK underground rap

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I interviewed the glorious Ncuti Gatwa for VF's Hollywood Issue, & if he can't distract you from the news, no one can.

He talked Doctor Who, Sex Education, imposter syndrome, racist backlash, & eating scones w/ the Queen (aka Olivia Colman)  www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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