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Thanks!!

Thank you, Amanda!

Thanks to @jeremydlarson.bsky.social for the assignment and thanks to my mom for eventually allowing me out of the house again :)

Babes in Toyland: Fontanelle Read Amy Phillips’ review of the album.

Always wanted to write a Sunday Review, but never had time when I actually worked at Pitchfork. A year later, I finally did. This is an LP close to my heart— my teen angst in sonic form. In 1995, I snuck out to a Babes show on a school night and got grounded. Worth it. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Just a reminder… for no particular reason…

A list of my top 10 favorite albums of 2024

A list of my top 20 favorite songs of 2024

Favorites of the year… just under the wire 🤘

The Most Depressing Album of the Year Is John Legend’s Sufjan Stevens-Produced Children’s Album Consider yourself warned.

Sufjan also released an album this year that no one remembers… 🤣 www.hearingthings.co/the-most-dep...

The Most Depressing Album of the Year Is John Legend’s Sufjan Stevens-Produced Children’s Album Consider yourself warned.

Wrote about an extremely unpleasant listening experience for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social www.hearingthings.co/the-most-dep...

The song is written for her son, a trans man, for the new trans rights benefit compilation TRANSA from Red Hot. (Full disclosure: my husband Elia is a producer on the album.) Incredible stuff here. transa.world

Sade - Young Lion (Official Music Video) YouTube video by SadeVEVO

This new Sade video is unreal. Music video of the year, hands down. It’s all home movie footage of Sade raising her son, literally from birth. (There is video of her in the maternity ward!) I can’t believe it exists. youtu.be/IFMmnMjFiPk?...

Lost to the sands of time, alas!

Ok I laughed out loud

To be fair: my singing voice is, in fact, terrible.

After belting throughout a showing of Les Mis in 2012, I found myself in a bathroom stall overhearing 2 women complain about the person next to them ruining the movie with her terrible voice. I come out and discover it’s the people who had been sitting next to me. Not sure who was more embarrassed.

I love how much you loved Tori ❤️

Also: my stepdad subconsciously inspired my entire music criticism career by declaring Tori Amos “a boring Laura Nyro ripoff” after my mom forced him to chaperone me to the Under the Pink tour in 1994. (No, I did not know who Laura Nyro was then.)

“Does this guy have diarrhea?” — my mom, upon walking into my room while I was listening to Beat Happening, sometime in the mid-1990s

Maybe! I think of “golden retriever” as more “wife guy” though, which these folks aren’t really. (At least until Noah Kahan gets married and starts writing all his songs about how much he loves his wife.)

Made my return to music writing with this goofy lil essay. TY @hearingthingsco.bsky.social

Congrats to my buds on the launch of their new era— exciting times ahead! 🔥🔥🔥

The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed The inside story of the magazine everyone loved to hate.

“I think we had our time, and we were lucky that it was a very long time.” Talked w/ Slate about my P4K years: slate.com/culture/2024...

Pitchfork getting nominated for a General Excellence ASME this year is the dictionary definition of “bittersweet”…

An end of an era for Pitchfork: What’s next for music journalism? Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber, former president Chris Kaskie and former executive editor Amy Phillips joined WBEZ’s Reset to talk about the legacy of the music website.

Spoke with Amy Phillips (@amyphillips.bsky.social) and Chris Kaskie on WBEZ Reset about Chicago's influence on Pitchfork. Chicago-based music journalists Britt Julious (@britticisms.bsky.social) and Alejandro Hernandez followed to discuss the future of the form.

Outgoing Pitchfork executive editor @amyphillips.bsky.social shared some of her favorite longform pieces from the music site with @markyarm.bsky.social, and of course she included some of the site's notorious scathing reviews.

Find her fave pieces here: depthperceptionbyll....

The 100 Best Songs of 2023 Featuring Ice Spice, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, Troye Sivan, Amaarae, NewJeans, and more

P4k best songs list is here. I wrote about Chappell Roan. Check it out. pitchfork.com/features/lis...

The Good, the Bad, and the Swiftie of Taylor’s Eras Tour Concert Film In this episode of The Pitchfork Review podcast, our critics wade through the ups and downs of the pop superstar’s new record-breaking live movie.

Talkin’ Taylor on the P4K pod: pitchfork.com/features/pod...

Breaking Through Rock Journalism’s Boys’ Club Five music critics look back at a problematic past, and forward to a future they’re helping create

Essential reading from @althea.bsky.social. So glad this exists: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Review: The Secondhand Thrills of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Concert Movie Taking in the nearly-three-hour spectacle alongside gaggles of Swifties posing for selfies with their branded popcorn buckets.

Wrote about the Eras tour movie: pitchfork.com/thepitch/rev...

Olivia Rodrigo Rates Heartbreak, High Heels, and Going To Therapy | Over/Under | Pitchfork Olivia Rodrigo rates the depths of heartbreak, the power of high heels, being a teenager and more on this edition of Over/Under.Director: Margeaux LabatDirec...

Talked with Olivia Rodrigo about mustaches, bacon, rom coms, and other important matters: youtu.be/_141XDG8TNs?...