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04.08.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

The loss of music listings is "the loss of a world," Gabriel Kahane writes. As a young musician in New York, they were his "bible, syllabus, and road map":

04.08.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@gabrielkahane.bsky.social has written his debut article for @theatlantic.com, "A Love Letter to Music Listings," in which he examines the loss of cultural listings and what it means for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

30.07.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tricia wrote β€˜The Freaks Came Out to Write,’ an extraordinary oral history of the Village Voice; her book very much informed my thinking about this essay. Thank you so much for your incredible work!!

28.07.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

27.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 88

Thank you for reading!! Yeah. It’s all so depressing.

28.07.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am having so many feelings about this piece; writing and editing listings at Time Out was an incredible journalism boot camp, a wonderfully immersive way to learn about New York City culture, and simply the coolest job I ever had.

27.07.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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28.07.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Didja read my Atlantic skit?

28.07.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

😳

28.07.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😭😭😭

28.07.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
1959 New Yorker listings

1959 New Yorker listings

As you noted, the old New Yorker listings are mind blowing today, they go on for like 50 pages, accompanied by charming hand-illustrated ads. Nightlife is helpfully organized in this one by β€œsmall and cheerful” or β€œbig and brassy.”

27.07.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"a world in which clicks are dollars has led to an ouroboros of cultural journalism in which what is already popular must be written aboutβ€”which increases its popularity, which means it must be written about, which increases its popularity..."

28.07.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!!!

28.07.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The uncanny feeling of being a main character, along with @natechinen.bsky.social, in an eloquent, passionate cri de coeur by one of my hands-down most admired artists.

27.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pop & Rock Listings for June 10-16 (Published 2016)

Ah, I see. But yeah, this is not the weekend listings of yore. For exampleβ€”and this is just pop music; there were robust listings for jazz and classical too… www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/a...

27.07.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the NYT weekend listings went kaput in 2016?!

27.07.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

27.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 88

Also: music by Arthur Russell, Andrew Norman, Shaw & Yee, and a promising upstart by the name of J.S. Bach. All in all, a welcome dose of high-concentrate respite from the weeping world. 3/3

26.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The tempo marking is "infiniment lent, extatique," and the silence that followed was just that: infinite and ecstatic. Caroline played/sang the piano part on synth; birds sang, sirens walled, and the trees did a junior high slow dance through it all. 2/3

26.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee performing in a backyard, surrounded by trees.

Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee performing in a backyard, surrounded by trees.

One of the most extraordinary silences l've ever experienced was the one at the end of Andrew Yee & Caroline Shaw's performance last night of "Louange Γ  l'Γ‰ternitΓ© de JΓ©sus," from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. 1/3

26.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

25.07.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4270    πŸ” 838    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 44

Oh George. That means a lot, truly. Glad to know it’s held up. Quite a bit of new music in the pipeline after a discomfiting stretch of silence…

20.07.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That means a great deal, truly. More music on the way soon…

20.07.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember that conversation!! So glad you made it back alive.

20.07.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love that my bizarro pronunciation of that word has introduced a new spelling of the word calabash

20.07.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

❀️❀️❀️

20.07.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The sooner people internalize this, the sooner we can build a meaningful coalition to dismantle the current authoritarian regime. 3/3

19.07.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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America, meet the Trump-Mamdani voter Yes, such a person exists. Should anyone be surprised?

This article lays plain that this is not the caseβ€”or if it is, then we've misidentified the make-up of those tribes. It's not blue versus red but billionaires versus the rest of us. 2/3 www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

19.07.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am such a broken record on this, but: there are no ideological monoliths in U.S. politics. Every voter is a walking series of contradictions. People in power benefit from the perception that the body politic is reducible to two eternally warring tribes. 1/3

19.07.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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