I rly want to call out the (employed) veteran critic who keeps signing up for free trials on hearing things instead of buying a sub lmao

Excited to share this project I've been working on for months: a long list of the most underappreciated TV shows of a dizzyingly overabundant 21st century. The research for this was so fun—revisiting great shows I barely remembered, finally getting to watch others that had been on my list for years

The 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows of the 21st Century

From 'Undeclared' and 'Bunheads' to 'The Knick' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated TV shows of the 21st Century.

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Is anyone like... making money these days? Anywhere? Anyhow? Asking for... well no, I'm asking for me. But also, bc @rahawahaile.bsky.social just really made some excellent points here. www.talkscratch.com/legacy-media...

Legacy Media Wants to Hire You (No, Not You)

Not me either, but that's OK.

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I rly appreciate the feedback and shares on my latest essay, the commiseration helps and this pure-hearted comment brought a tear to my eye

At @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @jillmapes.bsky.social has a fine piece. I'd argue that writer-owned outlets like Hearing Things, @theflytrapmedia.com, and @flaminghydra.com are slowly building the right answer, guess what we don't have to go fast or 'scale' www.hearingthings.co/the-latest-e...

The Latest Elegy for Music Journalism and Middle-Class Musicianhood

Sometimes professional failure isn’t your fault.

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I wrote about the end times

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 2w ago

The dream is dead but we didn’t kill it

Wrote something quick about the mass layoffs in music writing that took place yesterday, as well as the phenomenon of "posting about the death of music writing," the unavoidable celebrity industrial complex, and embracing the reality of the present last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/12-thoughts-...

12 Thoughts on the Latest Round of Music Writing Layoffs

This is a free post from Larry Fitzmaurice's Last Donut of the Night newsletter. Paid subscribers get one or two email-only Baker's Dozens every week featuring music I've been listening to and some cr...

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I adore this album + I wrote this review :)

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · last mo.

𝘌𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 is Nia Archives’ main pop girlie record, done in her own edgy way. Read our review:

last donut of the night once again w/ a good insider interview, *Susie Essman voice* luv ya Lar

Force Field@forcefieldpr.bsky.social · last mo.

I talked to @larryfitzmaurice.bsky.social about 20 years of doing Force Field, NYC in the aughts, Geese, and the end of the blog era last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/daniel-gill-...

I am obligated to remind folks that @coyotemedia.org is queer as fuck, worker-owned, and published this today.

Punk Is Gay

An illustrated interview with Kochina Rude!

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dan sinker@dansinker.com · 2mo ago

absolutely fucking not.

profiled Wiki for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social. we spent the afternoon of Game 3 of the Knicks/Spurs Finals in Seward Park talking sobriety, Marty Supreme, the ever-changing NY indie rap scene, and Ancient History (exclusive 📸 by @thisisnotaphotograph.com!)

A Day in the Park with Wiki

The influential New York rapper soaks in the city’s greenery while talking about growing up without aging out, his struggles with sobriety, and crafting his lush new album, Ancient History.

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worker-owned journalism is the only way fwd

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 2mo ago

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) — the parent company of Rolling Stone and other publications like Billboard, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter — has acquired Vox Media, home of Eater, The Verge, Vox Studios, and more. Details ↓

y'all only getting 1/3 of the information in that pic / shoot

josh (oldfriend99)@oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Young ZZ Top with arguably the greatest band photo of all time

Turns out there's more gas left in the tank of ye old Death Cab.

Put a Seashell to Your Ear

Plus Vince Staples’ rock album, Death Cab’s comeback, and Must-Hear Mexican R&B

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I wrote about phoebe bridgers, parasocial relationships vs. intentional mystery, and the gift of live music without phones

Talking About How I’m Not Supposed to Talk About Phoebe Bridgers’ New Album

The indie-folk singer-songwriter pulled off a phones-free tour and arena show featuring new material with no leaks or big spoilers.

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this is a masterpiece

Our @weareravenous.com newsletter drop on Sunday was a collab with my friend @jillmapes.bsky.social from @hearingthingsco.bsky.social about what it’s like to start a worker owned co-op. Um, it’s a lot of work.

For our Sunday newsletter today got a really amazing convo between @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social and @jillmapes.bsky.social about worker owned media. If you’re a @weareravenous.com subscriber it’s in your inbox! www.weareravenous.com/email/3e2260...

The Biggest Surprise of Building a Worker-Owned Publication

We talked to Jill Mapes at Hearing Things about getting scrappy in building a worker-owned music culture site.

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exactly what my dad said when i took him to see Dylan *checks notes* 18 years ago

Vulture@vulture.com · 3mo ago

Paul McCartney shares his review of seeing Bob Dylan live: ‘I couldn’t tell what song he was doing.’

PLEASE read @jillmapes.bsky.social on Michael Jackson in @hearingthingsco.bsky.social

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hiding the real Michael Jackson in the era of 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭

I went long on MJ

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hiding the real Michael Jackson in the era of 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭

Rick Devens… elite human being

This week in song recommendations: a different side of "Dilla," a UK rap banger reccomended by at least one doctor, and more www.hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-m...

Lucy Dacus Makes More Than Just Sad Music

The singer-songwriter gets back to what she does best on a new single.

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who thinks like this? women say stuff all the time

Vulture@vulture.com · 4mo ago

Taylor Swift thinks Sombr’s confessional lyrics will be good for female songwriters. ‘Having a male artist say stuff like that is really good for the cause of women to be able to say stuff.’

For $10 I will go to your ex’s music page and comment “what’s going on with the mix on this one?”

this is one of the best profiles I’ve read in a while, bravo @cushac.bsky.social

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“He fits this trajectory of a folk troubadour who’s always on the road, hiking and staying in people's homes, and moves every couple of years,” says Ryan Davis. "But really, there’s nobody like him. He’s a singular force of nature.”

I wrote about my love and fomo for nine inch noize, the goated status of daft punk live LPs, gym bros loving fat girls (and nin), the usual

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week's Five Albums: legends of industrial pop and electronic dance music meld minds, musicians from Congo and Cuba flex their ingenuity, a New York songwriter embraces jazzy art-pop, and a storied hip-hop duo contemplates what all this rap shit means.

I’m gonna need every woman writer who wrote about music once to calm down about Mile End Kicks and stop quoting the Euphoria “is this play about us” line. The nostalgic fangirling is lame especially for a movie where she fucks her sources

Something that lives rent-free in my head since reading the Hole bassist's memoir: Courtney Love once called Melissa Auf der Maur "Billy Corgan's purse."

Girlhood at the Epicenter of Alternative Music’s Mainstream Moment

Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur looks back lucidly on her 1990s in “Even the Good Girls Will Cry,” as I seek out memoirs by levelheaded women artists from the generation before mine.

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If you are very lucky, one day you will find a job you love as much as the NYT loves covering gender-affirming care for cis people