Reactive cancellation is a bandaid. The most effective long-term intervention is structural reallocation.
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Reactive cancellation is a bandaid. The most effective long-term intervention is structural reallocation.
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If our politics can’t survive scrutiny when it comes to women, they were never as radical as we thought.
During COVID, he found unexpected joy in streaming — connecting with new fans in meaningful ways, rediscovering his sense of purpose, and reminding himself (and others) that he still had plenty to say.
Long before the term “business techno” entered the lexicon, François was already feeling disconnected from the global circuit, even as he experienced major success.
I was lucky enough to spend several hours with François K in New York late last year, talking about what happens when success stops feeling meaningful, and why he prefers forming relationships with dancers over “one-night-stand” gigs.
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Wrote about why Keli Holiday’s Dancing2 has so many Hottest 100 voters in a flap for @sydmorningherald.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/culture/musi...
I want to see Trump go down as much as the next person but this Sascha Riley interview is not it, and it does a real disservice to Trump and Epstein's actual victims
- Kit Harington in a kimono, sat at a piano, crushing pills with a combat boot
I guess we did need fresh blood and I do trust these writers to make magic but it was a shaky start imo
- Ditto the Colonel Creampie joke, it was executed poorly and the setup was clunky
- lol @ Otto going hardcore anti-woke, "I called a subordinate a retard yesterday and no one flinched. And you know what Harper, tomorrow I might do it again"
- Eric and Harpier exchanging empty grandiosities
I know suspending reality is a large part of enjoying Industry but he really didn't seem like the kinda guy to order Hailey to pick up said chair either
- The first scene between Whitney and Jonah was off. Didn't buy either of them as banking execs, their repartee, particularly the black on black joke fell flat, and Max Minghella chair flip was limp and unconvincing.
Industry s4 kicks off in 4th gear and with a bunch of new faces, with mixed results
- Charlie Heaton's character picking up Kiernan Shipka looking very much like Natalia Dyer was on the nose
Proof is one thing.
Truth is another.
New piece on law, headlines, and what’s getting lost in between.
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Just published a little update from Brazil — on burnout, clarity, Locomía, and the emotional weather of the past few weeks. politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/a-break-fr...
Instead of the usual newsletter, I’m sharing a few of the things I’ve been thinking about this week instead, including how much I love the new Lily Allen album in spite of myself, and how happy DJ Harvey’s set last Friday made me. xoxo
I’m pressed for time this week (heading to Australia via South America next week, may or may not be returning to New York in a few months) and need to focus on packing up my apartment and doing other work that might be more lucrative and help with my credit card bill.
Great interview by @annabel-ross.bsky.social with good-guy and great DJ, John (Juan) MacLean
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Had one of my favourite-ever conversations for the newsletter with one of the nicest guys in music, The Juan MacLean politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-juan-m...
"I need the audience to be a muse, the muse, and I need to love them, or I can’t find it in me.” she commented in an interview this week. She's currently creating a new audience-as-muse composed of terfs...very curious to see the kind of music this produces
All the conversation around puberty blockers and questionable data re: the rate of trans-identifying youth is more often than not a smokescreen or a springboard for what morphs into generalised transphobia and bigotry. See her recent, "I've left the cult, get over it" comment.
My main point in this Róisín Murphy piece, which many people (terfs) seem to have missed, is that whether or not you agree with them her comments are extremely hurtful to trans people, an already vulnerable community politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
Two weeks ago I interviewed @pempem.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Breaking Awake, in which their nervous breakdown and attempt to recover with the help of prescribed and illicit drugs sparked much bigger questions about what is making us depressed and anxious
Right?! 🥴
This week's newsletter is about the avant-pop icon who blocked me (and many others) this week. No one's out to get you, Róisín. We just want you to stop acting like a c*nt politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
A new chapter for the newsletter, plus a reader feedback survey. I’d be so grateful for your input ♥️
Featuring Jimmy Kimmel, Karen Attiah, Ezra Klein, Netanyahu at the UN, the pathetic Australian Prime Minister, Kamala Harris’ new book, Resident Advisor and The Great Regression, Najla Said (daughter of Edward) and purity politics, Roi Perez, and the statement that “PLUR is inherently g3noc1d@l.”
Chatted with brilliant Philly-based DJ/producer estoc abt the problem with political raves, trying to make a living while staying true to your values, why longform content is an essential tool in beating fascism and the importance of engaging with the past to better understand the present & future.
In today's newsletter we talked about the challenges of fitting in in a scene not known for its inclusivity, how her experiences growing up shaped the person and artist she is today, the disillusionment that can come with meeting your idols, and why she thinks she's yet to make a banger (!)
to fit neatly into any single genre, with releases on labels as varied as Kapsela, Mau5trap, XL Recordings, Critical Music and FabricLive. I first spoke to Li last year about an incident that will be explored in more detail in the newsletter in coming weeks.
