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04.08.2025 00:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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 π 27 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0@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 π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Tricia wrote βThe Freaks Came Out to Write,β 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 π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0In 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 π 410 π 117 π¬ 26 π 88Thank you for reading!! Yeah. Itβs all so depressing.
28.07.2025 16:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I 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 π 40 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0bsky.app/profile/gabr...
28.07.2025 15:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Didja read my Atlantic skit?
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28.07.2025 03:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01959 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 βsmall and cheerfulβ or βbig and brassy.β
27.07.2025 16:52 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 2 π 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 aboutβwhich increases its popularity, which means it must be written about, which increases its popularity..."
28.07.2025 02:53 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you so much!!!
28.07.2025 02:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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 π 35 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0Ah, I see. But yeah, this is not the weekend listings of yore. For exampleβand this is just pop music; there were robust listings for jazz and classical tooβ¦ www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/a...
27.07.2025 13:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I thought the NYT weekend listings went kaput in 2016?!
27.07.2025 13:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0In 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 π 410 π 117 π¬ 26 π 88Also: 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 π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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 π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Caroline 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'ΓternitΓ© de JΓ©sus," from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. 1/3
26.07.2025 18:48 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The 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.
Oh George. That means a lot, truly. Glad to know itβs held up. Quite a bit of new music in the pipeline after a discomfiting stretch of silenceβ¦
20.07.2025 05:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That means a great deal, truly. More music on the way soonβ¦
20.07.2025 02:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I remember that conversation!! So glad you made it back alive.
20.07.2025 02:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Love that my bizarro pronunciation of that word has introduced a new spelling of the word calabash
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20.07.2025 00:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0The 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 π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This article lays plain that this is not the caseβor 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 π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I 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
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