My October Stereogum column is about Halsey's "The Great Impersonator." I am posting this today because it went up today.
Like many reviewers, I find the record compelling, but I knew after listening that it would likely draw bad-faith dismissal.
stereogum.com/2286107/halsey…
Specifically, I think the album places itself in direct textual conversation with the reckoning on fame and parasocial fan attachment that Chappell Roan invoked this year, and that Mitski, Allison Crutchfield, Sidney Gish and others have also addressed.
nylon.com/fandom-danger-fema…
logging onto this excellent social media platform to share ~some personal news~ xitter.cf/stereogum/status/17064…
With "Padam Padam," @kylieminogue had her biggest hit in years. New album 'Tension' keeps the party going.
Read all about it in the first installment of @katstasaph's new monthly pop column: stereogum.com/2237236/on-ten…
bumping, as they say, for the afternoon crowd
xitter.cf/katstasaph/status/1610…
coming out of twitter retirement to do the thing el*n doesn't want anyone to do and plug my stuff elsewhere -- namely, that I have a newsletter now! expect column fragments, new music reviews, old music reviews, and more: ksta.substack.com/
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coming out of twitter retirement to do the thing el*n doesn't want anyone to do and plug my stuff elsewhere -- namely, that I have a newsletter now! expect column fragments, new music reviews, old music reviews, and more: ksta.substack.com/
wrote about bjork for stereogum stereogum.com/2201042/bjork-…
and wrote about Fiona Apple's When the Pawn for this, in a diabolical plot concocted in my teens to further the women's agenda or whatever by loving an amazing album
xitter.cf/pitchfork/status/15751…
Presenting the best albums of the 1990s
See our list of the 150 best albums of the decade → p4k.in/xlDLSh5 #p4k90s
wrote about Liz Phair and Massive Attack for this, my old winamp playlists are vindicated pitchfork.com/features/lists…
Was the site perfect? No. Having a lot of blurbs means you're probably going to have some regrettable blurbs; I've contributed my share. Like the rest of music writing, it slowly got less contrarian over time (though that has more to do with who kept writing and who stepped away)
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this, too, was one of my favorite parts. one of our highest-rated songs ever (and a perfect pop song in general), Sofi de la Torre's "Vermillion," was something I found trawling through new Vevo videos xitter.cf/EveryUKNo1Game/status/…
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I haven't written anything about the @SinglesJukebox closing until now. I'm too close to it. It's going to take a while to feel anything about the situation but deep regret. Nevertheless, here is my attempt at a eulogy. (thread)
The whole thing is wrapped up in a lot of complicated and ambivalent feelings about the last decade and the shell of itself that music writing has become. But it was a great thing that existed, and music writing is lesser for its being gone. I will miss it a lot.