Mosi Reeves

Rolling Stone weighs in on J.Cole's 'The Fall-Off'

"If nothing else, The Fall-Off should serve as evidence against premature retirement. He sounds like he’s still got shit to work out."
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J. Cole's Final Album Shows a Superstar in His Flawed Glory Review: J. Cole says 'The Fall-Off' is his last album. If so, he's going out with an opus that's dense, sometimes frustrating and beautifully human

I reviewed J. Cole's "The Fall-Off." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Oh. www.thesun.co.uk/sport/381538...

Muting the rest of the game unless something interesting happens.

Where's Drake?

Lady Gaga's appearance was definitely a "token white guy in Black Panther" moment.

The Forgotten Women of Punk Interview by Jes Skolnik An extension of Shotgun Seamstress, a zine by, for and about Black Punks.

@supremenothing.myatproto.social shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... 🙏

You're making it sound pretty interesting, actually. Maybe it's an execution issue? (I haven't listened to it yet.)

Hmm...interesting. I feel like the question of whether he has any "panache" and "swag" is at the core of any debate about his music.

Why? Just curious...

(performed in the cadence of Whodini's "Big Mouth") You got a BIG ACCOUNT! BIG ACCOUNT! You got a BIG ACCOUNT! BIG ACCOUNT! BIG ACCOUNT!

Art in the Age of Intimidation · Feature ⟋ RA From EXIT Festival to Berlin's fallout over Gaza, political pressure has imperilled state funding for the arts. With the US on the brink, Chloe Lula asks: is this the end of cultural soft power?

What happens when governments turn their backs on culture?

Our first long read of 2026 traces the history of cultural soft power and explores how independent music might navigate the road ahead.

Sorry to hear this, Chris. Look forward to seeing what you do next.

Shout out to Mosi Reeves (@humthrush.bsky.social) for his terrific interview with @daleknwk.bsky.social way back in issue 251 of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social www.thewire.co.uk/issues/251

Feels like you have to be from a certain generation to understand how startling it is that Noam Chomsky’s reputation has completely crumbled.

He’s a “good hang,” though.

Unfortunately, it’s not surprising.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

"A$AP Rocky Wants To Run For Mayor Of New York City"

Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump

Sammy Davis Jr. and Richard Nixon

Thank you to the SFBA Bench Collective for giving my tired ass a place to sit while waiting for the morning commuter bus. sfbabc.org

A few years ago, this album sparked one of the craziest flame wars I’ve experienced. It was an argument with a well-known critic who violently traded insults with me and claimed that only middlebrow and ignorant fools celebrate Andre’s classic, massively influential performance. It lasted for hours.

Not going to hate…I just hope that all these super-online Socialists/Communists/Radicals who nevertheless take oligarchical money to realize their dream creative and “subversive” projects will extend that nuance to the less privileged of us.

Nirvana, “Dumb”

I still think it’s deeply overrated, and I have lingering trauma from all the hype I was forced to swallow when it dropped in 1993. But I admit it has slowly begun to grown on me.

You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk (2007)

My friend on the Democrats: “Democrats are really lazy.”

Hmm...

I dunno…I feel like it’s easier on social media to wield facts as dunking mechanisms than find ways to build solidarity. That impulse is fine in most circumstances, but in moments of peril it feels wrong.

Whataboutism isn’t going to save anyone. It’s true that there are parallels in American history to what’s happening now. That doesn’t negate the fact that there is a moment of consequence happening now.

Peace to the good folks in Minnesota. I’m thinking of you.