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How Phonk Became the Most Lucrative Yet Lifeless Genre of the 2020s 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 ...

This is a cool, very well-written piece by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social on where phonk is at these days
for @pitchfork.com includes lines like "Audio creatine, max-protein milk for your ears, these tracks radiate power." lol
pitchfork.com/thepitch/how... #driftphonk #phonk

we are witnessing an attempt at nationwide forcible detransition led in part by a man who rejected his own trans child

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

How Fanum Built an Empire Streaming Much More Than Video Games He got big streaming videos of his gaming exploits. He got huge (like, millions-of-fans huge) streaming videos of his offline life. Now, one of Gen Z’s wildest success stories explains his plans to re...

for GQ, I flew to LA to hang out with Fanum—I unpacked his rise and tried to pierce the smooth surface of this Gen Alpha icon, motivational coach, Marina AbramoTwitch-ian star, who helped turn the 'Just Chatting' livestream genre into a million-dollar career

www.gq.com/story/fanum-...

How Fanum Built an Empire Streaming Much More Than Video Games He got big streaming videos of his gaming exploits. He got huge (like, millions-of-fans huge) streaming videos of his offline life. Now, one of Gen Z’s wildest success stories explains his plans to re...

Gen Alpha icon + Twitch streamer Fanum profiled by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social who says "Fanum and his peers are... creating the public-access TV of the 2020s, only if public-access TV could make you rich"

Burning at Both Ends: Surviving a Week in Wildfire-Torn Los Angeles “We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.”

It's been a horrifying week in LA. Here's my @vanityfair.com diary of life in the danger zone www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

#13 - bleood - "ooo" / yuke - "ian goin" REPORT: ‘Symphony of Shrill’ Strains the Bounds of Listenability In Paradigm-Shifting Survey

#13 OF 2024 - bleood - "ooo" / yuke - "ian goin"

REPORT: ‘Symphony of Shrill’ Strains the Bounds of Listenability In Paradigm-Shifting Survey

www.kprblog.fyi/p/13-bleood-...

#14 - 2hollis - "crush" Maybe my favorite musical moment of the year erupts at the end of “crush,” when the yearning ballad breaks into a shotgun spree of kick drums.

My #14 of the year: 2hollis' "crush"

Pop ballad? Rawstyle? Trojan Horsed chaos

www.kprblog.fyi/p/14-2hollis...

#15 - wokeups - "fragged aht" Dearest Deacon of Fraggersville,

for the next 15 days I'll be posting my top 15 songs of the year with little blurbs on my newsletter—had a lot of fun with this one

#15: wokeups' "fragged aht"

www.kprblog.fyi/p/15-wokeups...

KPRblog | Kieran Press-Reynolds | Substack Musical brain splatter. Click to read KPRblog, by Kieran Press-Reynolds, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

starting this week, going to post 1 blurb a day counting down my favorite songs of the year . . . check it out @
www.kprblog.fyi

my fave albums of the year unranked 8-)

thanks!

An Interview With 2hollis, One of Music's Fastest Rising ... An interview with 2hollis, one of music's most talked abo...

I wrote the first profile of 2hollis - "hyperpop's Justin Bieber" "guy who out-aura'd Ken Carson" "Kylie Jenner's favorite new-gen" - he pulled back the curtain about everything, from his childhood to his industry connects to his love of Zyzz:

www.complex.com/pigeons-and-...

upsammy: Strange Meridians Read Kieran Press-Reynolds’ review of the album.

I wrote about upsammy's wonderfully soothing new album, a sweet soundtrack for giving your brain a break from all the maddening chaos

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

new yorkers of bluesky, I helped curate this free show w/ Mark Leckey within his new exhibition at Gladstone Gallery

come hang 8pm on Saturday Nov 23 it will be swell

i was woken up this morning by a noise that i thought was people having sex outside but it was just a guy jump roping violently

hmm i gotta switch my profile to me from 2002 to maintain that youthful image!

Fimiguerrero / Len / Lancey Foux: CONGLOMERATE Read Kieran Press-Reynolds’ review of the album.

inaugural bluesky self-promo: I wrote about the sweet, surprise new collab album from Fimiguerrero, Len, and Lancey Foux, three leaders of a new era of UK underground rap

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa Is on the Move: “I Like to Think of Myself as Madonna. I’m Still Reinventing Myself!” After ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Barbie,’ he’s working with dreamy Benedict Cumberbatch: “The things I want to say about that man, I don’t think are appropriate.”

I interviewed the glorious Ncuti Gatwa for VF's Hollywood Issue, & if he can't distract you from the news, no one can.

He talked Doctor Who, Sex Education, imposter syndrome, racist backlash, & eating scones w/ the Queen (aka Olivia Colman)  www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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