Generally not great when a live entertainment company recently found guilty of acting as a monopoly has control of any music journalism outlet
Steve Reynolds
@reynoldstop20.bsky.social
Day job: content typer for iHeartMedia. Night job: Nostalgia DJ, ran Party Like It’s 1999 from 2010 to 2025.
This is some bullshit right here. Brooklyn Vegan has done incredible work for a mind-bogglingly long time. It's never enough for the freaks who own the companies.
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
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If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
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why is this such a complicated thing for people to understand
Jemele Hill@jemelehill.bsky.social · 3d agoThe WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
It’s so funny (and even more telling) that the owners of professional sports teams acknowledge that there’s a problem with having an enormous wealth gap, but it only matters to them when it’s the difference between different magnitudes of billionaire.
This weekend’s launch of ESPN JEOPARDY! marks the fourth new series iteration of the classic format in the last four years. I talked to EP Michael Davies and execs at Sony and Disney about the expansion, how the show is doing on streaming, and what comes next www.vulture.com/article/why-...
Why the Jeopardy! Mantra Became ‘Modernize or Die’
Rapid expansion, live events, and now an ESPN spin-off? This! Is! The future!
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It's weird, when you look back on the coverage of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball, there weren't a lot of these sympathetic pieces about the fans practicing their rights of freedom of speech by screaming the N-word at him. Progress!
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
Here’s a taste of what I’ve played during that time! figgsrock2.substack.com/p/the-best-o...
The Best of Cruel Summer
Come hear me spin songs like this in two weeks!
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Steve Reynolds@reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 6d agoI’ve been doing Cruel Summer with The Skint and The Engagements and since 2012–which is practically a lifetime when it comes to staging events! I’m very excited that we’re doing it again 8/14 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Get your advance tix here: littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_...
WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector
On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…
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I’ve been doing Cruel Summer with The Skint and The Engagements and since 2012–which is practically a lifetime when it comes to staging events! I’m very excited that we’re doing it again 8/14 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Get your advance tix here: littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_...
Cruel Summer 80s & 90s Dance Party
An 80s & 90s throwback dance party with live band The Engagements and DJ Steve Reynolds!
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I tried to refrain from posting this, but I'm sorry @wxpnfm.bsky.social, I’m too much of year nerd. That Aimee Mann Badfinger cover was released in 1993, not 1996. I’m holding that 1993 cd here. #XPNTBT
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
Trans women in public bathrooms were never a problem. JK Rowling in public bathrooms is one.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...
I teach college courses on journalism and over time I've shifted to focusing on non-profits and local startups; the only thing I tell students about corporate media and TV news wonks is that they value class solidarity with the political elite more than anything, that's all they need to know. Next
Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 2w agoNBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
I got the chance to speak to one sitcom-directing legend (Pam Fryman) about how a sitcom-directing icon (Jimmy Burrows) changed the course of her career--and made TV better. In her own words, up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jame...
‘There Was Jimmy Burrows, and Then There Was Everybody Else’
Beyond his vast body of work, the late director left behind another legacy — as a warm and giving mentor.
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Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."
I am so glad Darren Fletcher is calling this insane match; he is absolutely meeting the absurdity of it all.
CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
@daveholmes.bsky.social Dave, since I somehow don’t have this committed to memory, when exactly are you on SXM? (Besides the new Saturday night show I look forward to checking out.)
I do think pinning this on specifically Taco Bell is weird since many confirmed cases aren’t people who ate at Taco Bell at all and we know the actual source—Taylor Farms—distributes lettuce and other produce to many, many other large food businesses
Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 3w agoThe Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
Vickie Paladino is a deranged lowlife and Council Speaker Julie Menin is actively shielding her from fair consequences for her evil actions. www.amny.com/new-york/que...
Queens City Council member sued by girlfriend of Brooklyn murder victim for social media posts that allegedly sparked online harassment | amNewYork
Queens City Council Member Vickie Paladino is in another legal battle over statements she made.
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Kind of a wild thing for Black Panther's diversity hire to say
Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 3w agoFeels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary
Argentina are like Michael Myers or Jason or Freddy -- just when you think they're dead they keep coming back. Incredible.