Simon Reynolds

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Was it this - Tech Steppin (A Journey Into Experimental Drum & Bass) – CD (Compilation), 1996

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is

Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...

I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

Scritti videos are constructed around ruses to get round the fact he can’t dance. The one for ‘hypnotize’ has him on a sofa if i recall right

Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch 8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

Meet the Most Cracked Music Archivist Online Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...

For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"

Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.

Well I have 14 years on so you can imagine how ancient I feel reading K's stuff!

Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

RIP Keith Dobson

RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...

The Dreamy Malaise of Post-Pandemic Alt-Rock Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...

"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...

I can’t work out who the three Davids are - is it Niven, Attenborough, late period /naff 90s Bowie?

All Night at Swaggotfest Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he repo...

For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social‬ reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...

Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

No Kings. No Surrender. Shows of force can work both ways.

"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

NO KINGS PASADENA · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

Adam Friedland Could Be the Millennial Jon Stewart. But Does He Want That? The 38-year-old comedian started his YouTube series ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ mostly as a joke. But in the wake of an election that podcasters helped swing in Donald Trump’s favor, he’s fielding inter...

Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.

The Still Vital—and Still Complicated—Legacy of Susan Brownmiller The activist and author of the landmark rape study, Against Our Will, lived long see the struggle is still just beginning.

A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.

Apparently there is a Yoko reinvention of ‘whoopee’ on Double Fantasy - a retro pre-WW2 romantic number with new lyrics, titled ‘Yes, I’m Your Angel’.

Wow - I only know the Sinatra version which elides the whole having affairs and divorce bit, circles back to the ‘comic’ image of hubby dishwashing and sewing - keeps it light and breezy. Had no idea the full lyric is so cynical and bleak.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.