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Michaelangelo Matos

@matoswk.bsky.social

Michaelangelo Matos Author, historian, critic, journalist St. Paul he/him The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020) I edit books - inquire within Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com

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Michaelangelo Matos@matoswk.bsky.social · 13h ago

www.c86show.org/e/simon-reyn... The whole thing is really enjoyable, but I'm afraid the host gets the best line, after Simon mentions Natalie Merchant singing about child abuse: "Who didn't, really, in the 80s?"

Simon Reynolds - Still in a Dream Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 | C86 Show - Indie Pop

Simon Reynolds in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/still-in-a-dream Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Sim...

c86show.org

dan ozzi@danozzi.bsky.social · 1h ago

live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 4h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

Ronald AKA DJ Regularity@djregular.tech · 2h ago

I'd much rather have my "I always hated ____" bonafides validated with like "Their new album/movie/book was widely panned," than "They started a VC enterprise that gutted multiple beloved magazines/blogs and took jobs from a ton of good people." This sucks.

Michaelangelo Matos@matoswk.bsky.social · 13h ago

www.c86show.org/e/simon-reyn... The whole thing is really enjoyable, but I'm afraid the host gets the best line, after Simon mentions Natalie Merchant singing about child abuse: "Who didn't, really, in the 80s?"

Simon Reynolds - Still in a Dream Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 | C86 Show - Indie Pop

Simon Reynolds in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/still-in-a-dream Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Sim...

c86show.org

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools. Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power.
neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 2d ago

i don't want to downplay or minimize the ways this is a transphobic backlash first and foremost but it's also a misogynistic backlash - these people want to abuse and control women and girls. it's not a coincidence that this is happening the first time women's sports are becoming semi-mainstream.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools. Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

the big complaint generally revolves around schools, but the timeline there was pretty sensible: most schools were fully remote until the vaccine rollout, after which they fairly quickly moved to in-person learning.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy