jill mapes

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Chappell Roan’s Live Show Is Very Good and Very Gay An emotional dispatch from Chappell’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour

It was the “Barracuda” cover that broke me

Chappell Roan’s Live Show Is Very Good and Very Gay An emotional dispatch from Chappell’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour

wrote about chappell, sapphic gestures and the little kid space

Those Gilmore Girls Sure Do Know A Lot About Music TV’s greatest fast-talking mother and daughter created a discerning but feminine cultural canon, gilded with la-la-las.

delightful read on the musical tastemakers that were lorelei and rory gilmore (and of course by extension amy sherman-palladino and daniel palladino) [thanks be to @jillmapes.bsky.social]

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

All the people being fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk—many of them women—in the aftermath of his death demonstrates that his legacy was never one about universal free speech.

It was only ever about about straight, white, conservative Christian men spouting bigotry without consequence.

Five Albums: Our 2025 Faves So Far One near-perfect LP from each of our founder-critics

The best music of 2025 so far, according to HT

by me!

many things amiss with this article but this bit just kinda set me off

yes and Condé Nast also did *nothing* to stop the doxxing against me by swifties, claiming it was against their policy… publishers need to help protect critics if the expectation is brutal honesty

by me!

I Took a Party Bus to ‘The Black Parade’ Submitting to the regime of my new old emo overlords, My Chemical Romance

When My Chemical Romance were presented with the key to their NJ hometown this weekend, they showed their gratitude by giving the mayor... a large fish. “This fish is excellent,” frontman Gerard Way said in an Eastern European accent

a genealogy of stomp clap

have sensed some confusion re: the origins of stomp clap that i'm all too happy to clear up maxread.substack.com/i/170106944/...

Also: People don't seem to realize that "thumbs up, thumbs down" (esp. numerical rating systems) are not the way good critics, like the ones NYT reassigned, prefer to approach most reviews. Context, analysis and synthesis are more rewarding for the writer, too. They also take more time and knowledge

This is excellent work from @jillmapes.bsky.social, continuing my distant mindmeld with Hearing Things (Jill you wrote about Carter Faith the same week I did, and we both love the KFC Santeria remix, and I'm on WATC discussing Buckingham Nicks tomorrow!)

we ARE on a mind meld, wow I love that 💜

How Fleetwood Mac Won the Classic Rock Wars You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you...

THIS IS TONIGHT!! Looks like we'll be moving to the indoor private space (we'll provide masks) so space is a little more limited—get your ticket soon! givebutter.com/co-opfest

Four Out of Five Critics Agree, It’s Must Hear Odetta vibes, Busta Rhymes after a hit of DMT, the wonder in the unknown, a quasi-reunion of anxious rockers, and more

"...summertime indie rock at its best: fuzzy, nostalgic, and begging to be blasted as you simmer uncomfortably in the sun." A really great "Must Hear" review of Forth Wanderers The Longer This Goes On out now on @subpop.bsky.social.
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
www.hearingthings.co/four-out-of-...

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Megan Stalter Is Reinventing the Rom-Com Heroine TIME interviews the 'Hacks' breakout about her star turn in Lena Dunham's Netflix series 'Too Much'

I had the best time talking with Megan Stalter—a master at channeling unhinged and delusional women but also, it turns out, a classic rom-com leading lady with all the effervescence of Julia Roberts and Bridget Jones. (Also, how great is this Elizabeth Renstrom photo shoot?) time.com/7300591/mega...

hell yes it’s the gelliverse brother

SCOOP: Sources Suggest Zohran Mamdani May Have Exaggerated Results On Sit-And-Reach Test, Calling Into Question 7th Grade Presidential Physical Fitness Test Honors

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“You want a Bugle?”

(📯 @jillmapes.bsky.social)

This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.

In a move of strategic genius, I am dropping my Take on the Sex Wars in the middle of a much bigger story so that no-one will pay attention to it. No paywall, though! jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...

What the Helly?! New music that’ll make you wonder how the fuck they’re doing that

Our favorite new albums come from a riddim-loving DJ in Toronto's queer underground, a semi-anonymous UK duo reinterpreting gruesome Irish folklore, and the Michigan shredder behind something called 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘠𝘰𝘶, 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳. Get into it.

NYC i can promise if u come to our party it will be extremely fun and not sceney and also knives and ennals are AMAZING and also good if u would like to party w/a rapper/producer duo that will not stand for all this bullshit (COME LET IT ALL OUT)