Zach Schonfeld
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
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Zach Schonfeld
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
· Nov 17
My book is finally out now. I spent three years researching Nicolas Cage's early years, studying his formative performances, and interviewing more than 120 people who worked with him and shared untold stories with me. I hope you find it interesting.
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Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
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How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More
With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."
hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
Olivia Nuzzi should have titled the memoir "Waiting for the Worm to Come"
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Olivia Nuzzi should have titled the memoir "Waiting for the Worm to Come"
It Happened To Me: I used to be a Yorgos skeptic and now I think his freakification of Emma Stone is one of the greatest actor-director collaborations of the 21st century. Here's my review of Bugonia:
Bugonia Review: Yorgos Lanthimos' Sharp, Surreal Stinger
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons buzz through a wickedly funny thriller of abduction, alienation, and apiculture.
www.metroweekly.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It Happened To Me: I used to be a Yorgos skeptic and now I think his freakification of Emma Stone is one of the greatest actor-director collaborations of the 21st century. Here's my review of Bugonia:
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
All the components of a normal academic career
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
All the components of a normal academic career
I think I managed to get my dad into Judee Sill. He is Sill-pilled now.
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think I managed to get my dad into Judee Sill. He is Sill-pilled now.
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’” was a huge success, but one glance at the New York City skyline will tell you that a pivotal part of the music video is no l...
thehardtimes.net
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
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One thing the Scorsese and Billy Joel documentaries have in common, besides the most mellifluous accents imaginable, is the insistence that they could not and did not do it alone. Schoonmaker, De Niro, DiCaprio, and to a lesser extent Pileggi and Schrader help form "Martin Scorsese" like Voltron.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One thing the Scorsese and Billy Joel documentaries have in common, besides the most mellifluous accents imaginable, is the insistence that they could not and did not do it alone. Schoonmaker, De Niro, DiCaprio, and to a lesser extent Pileggi and Schrader help form "Martin Scorsese" like Voltron.
Historians believe Johnny Cash wrote his iconic song "Hurt" in 2002 after a 72-hour suspension from Bluesky made him reflect on his mortality.
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Historians believe Johnny Cash wrote his iconic song "Hurt" in 2002 after a 72-hour suspension from Bluesky made him reflect on his mortality.
Not a joke: I've discovered that my name appears in Jeffrey Epstein's emails because Flipboard sent him a link roundup that included one of my articles on July 16, 2019, which was ten days after his arrest.
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not a joke: I've discovered that my name appears in Jeffrey Epstein's emails because Flipboard sent him a link roundup that included one of my articles on July 16, 2019, which was ten days after his arrest.
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Man, imagine being Jeffrey Epstein. Your entire life has been devoted to obtaining blackmail material for people in positions of power, and then suddenly one of them becomes President of the United States… but then your old friend depression shows up again…
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Man, imagine being Jeffrey Epstein. Your entire life has been devoted to obtaining blackmail material for people in positions of power, and then suddenly one of them becomes President of the United States… but then your old friend depression shows up again…
Michael Wolff emailed Epstein in 2017 (early MeToo era) to express his concern about Woody Allen being pulled "into the general Harvey pool of the despised and shunned"
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Michael Wolff emailed Epstein in 2017 (early MeToo era) to express his concern about Woody Allen being pulled "into the general Harvey pool of the despised and shunned"
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Great reporting here.
Here's the great @zachschonfeld.bsky.social with a new installment in his Vinyl Me, Please reporting. This one looks at the vendors and customers who are getting screwed by the failed subscription record club's new management.
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Great reporting here.
Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
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My first book came out five years ago today
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
My first book came out five years ago today
Have to assume Michael Wolff thought the "Please note, the information contained in this communication is confidential and is intended only for the use of..." notice in Jeffrey Epstein's email signature was legally binding
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Have to assume Michael Wolff thought the "Please note, the information contained in this communication is confidential and is intended only for the use of..." notice in Jeffrey Epstein's email signature was legally binding
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An excellent follow-up on the current state of affairs when it comes to the Vinyl Me, Please record club by @zachschonfeld.bsky.social. Zach was nice enough to interview me again for this article, where I and several others come to accept cutting our losses. RIP VMP. stereogum.com/2476164/who-...
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
An excellent follow-up on the current state of affairs when it comes to the Vinyl Me, Please record club by @zachschonfeld.bsky.social. Zach was nice enough to interview me again for this article, where I and several others come to accept cutting our losses. RIP VMP. stereogum.com/2476164/who-...
Reposted by Zach Schonfeld
Here's the great @zachschonfeld.bsky.social with a new installment in his Vinyl Me, Please reporting. This one looks at the vendors and customers who are getting screwed by the failed subscription record club's new management.
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Here's the great @zachschonfeld.bsky.social with a new installment in his Vinyl Me, Please reporting. This one looks at the vendors and customers who are getting screwed by the failed subscription record club's new management.
I love Neil Young because he'll make a song where he mumbles "Got mashed potatoes/Ain't got no T-Bone" over three chords for 9 straight minutes and then insist you listen to it on the most high-resolution audiophile equipment possible. Happy 80th, king.
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I love Neil Young because he'll make a song where he mumbles "Got mashed potatoes/Ain't got no T-Bone" over three chords for 9 straight minutes and then insist you listen to it on the most high-resolution audiophile equipment possible. Happy 80th, king.
This is unbelievable. Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, has just revealed that his favorite movie is... Norbit.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is unbelievable. Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, has just revealed that his favorite movie is... Norbit.
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Stereogum is the best music mag left. Voicey, comprehensive, great critics. You have no excuse to not subscribe. Fuck A.I.
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Stereogum is the best music mag left. Voicey, comprehensive, great critics. You have no excuse to not subscribe. Fuck A.I.
Gonna play The Smashing Machine and Marty Supreme simultaneously on two separate television sets and see if I can Zaireeka my way into a new Safdie Brothers movie.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Gonna play The Smashing Machine and Marty Supreme simultaneously on two separate television sets and see if I can Zaireeka my way into a new Safdie Brothers movie.
"I want something new to believe in. I want to stop thinking I missed an idealized past, only to realize in hindsight that I lived through a genuine moment." Great essay about making sense of NYC's past and future in the time of Zohran.
New York, I Love You
On LCD Soundsystem, borrowed nostalgia, and the election of Zohran Mamdani
www.hearingthings.co
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"I want something new to believe in. I want to stop thinking I missed an idealized past, only to realize in hindsight that I lived through a genuine moment." Great essay about making sense of NYC's past and future in the time of Zohran.
As long as @stereogum.com is around, we have a music site that isn't run by private equity, isn't owned by a billionaire, isn't overrun with slop, isn't susceptible to pop-star over-flattery, isn't partnering with U.S. army, and isn't afraid to let me go long on Fiery Furnaces. We can't lose that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
As long as @stereogum.com is around, we have a music site that isn't run by private equity, isn't owned by a billionaire, isn't overrun with slop, isn't susceptible to pop-star over-flattery, isn't partnering with U.S. army, and isn't afraid to let me go long on Fiery Furnaces. We can't lose that.