Nina Corcoran

@ninacorcoran.bsky.social

just play the song, schneebly 📓 associate staff writer Pitchfork 🎙️ co-host Punk This Week ✏️ words at stereogum, npr, rolling stone, vulture, wired, etc. firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 12h 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”

new podcast about new albums we love by MESH and DOG DATE and CEL RAY and CUTICLES and FALCON CRUST and VIDA RUIM. we watch Emeril, talk about the million live shows @ninacorcoran.bsky.social went to this week, and I recount how my son literally collided with a zydeco musician at Eaux Claires 2026.

punk this week podcast: dog date + mesh

Nina sees one billion shows. Evan’s child slams into a zydeco musician. We lose it for construction workers losing it for Emeril. “Falcon CRUST!”

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🌸🌼CHICAGO🌼🌸 This Friday from 6-8pm, the Kilbourn Park 2026 Summer Concert Series returns w/ a killer combo: National Photo Committee (freewheeling alt-country re: Ryan Davis or Wilco) + Krill (off-kilter slacker rock like Pavement or Pixies) Bring picnic blankets, leashed dogs, friends, and hang!

Floral poster for the Kilbourn Park 2026 Summer Concert Series. The shows are every Friday in July from 6-8pm, free, all ages, and organized by KPAC.

July 3: Smut and Hollow Bastion
July 10: National Photo Committee and Krill
July 17: Tobacco City and V.V. Lightbody
July 24: Radio Outernational and Chicken Happen
July 31: CRASHwolves and Starcharm

Kilbourn Park is at 3501 N. Kilbourn Ave. If it rains, the concert is moved indoors to the second floor of the Kilbourn Park Fieldhouse, which is ADA accessible via a ramp and an elevator. Earplugs are provided at no cost for those who want them.

Raffle prizes will be given away each week, including Salt Shed concert tickets, private pilates classes, garden center gift cards, brewery gift cards, a professional 60-minute massage, and much, much more.

The latest episode of see/saw jukebox, our podcast about perfect punk records, features @downtownboys.bsky.social! Joey, Victoria, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I add some picks to the jukebox. Topics discussed: Rhode Island, life-changing Letterman performances, and Julian Casablancas. Join us <3

see/saw jukebox: downtown boys

On the back of their new album Public Luxury, the long-running punk rock firebrands and organizers discuss perfect punk records.

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