It sure was! Maybe we crossed paths sometime that year :)

My Life In Dance Music A personal history told through twelve tracks

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Pop’s most influential innovator returns, hornier than ever Robyn dives into IVF, motherhood and middle-aged sex on her audacious new album.

I reviewed the horny and fabulous new Robyn album
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“The Zionist movement has become a death cult” Tim Lawrence on Gaza, backlash, and the politics of the dancefloor

Was delighted to speak with author/dance music historian Tim Lawrence about his journey from Zionism to anti-Zionism and solidarity from the street to social media to the dancefloor
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Reactive cancellation is a bandaid. The most effective long-term intervention is structural reallocation.
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When Radical Politics Leave Women Behind On hero worship, sexual harm, and the ease with which we look away

If our politics can’t survive scrutiny when it comes to women, they were never as radical as we thought.

During COVID, he found unexpected joy in streaming — connecting with new fans in meaningful ways, rediscovering his sense of purpose, and reminding himself (and others) that he still had plenty to say.

Long before the term “business techno” entered the lexicon, François was already feeling disconnected from the global circuit, even as he experienced major success.

How François K Got His Groove Back When scaling up felt hollow, the legendary DJ found freedom in intimacy

I was lucky enough to spend several hours with François K in New York late last year, talking about what happens when success stops feeling meaningful, and why he prefers forming relationships with dancers over “one-night-stand” gigs.
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Why this favourite to win the Hottest 100 has sparked hostility online Campaigning for triple j’s Hottest 100 is widespread, but few artists have been scrutinised as intensely for it as Keli Holiday, whose song Dancing2 is favourite to win Saturday’s countdown.

Wrote about why Keli Holiday’s Dancing2 has so many Hottest 100 voters in a flap for @sydmorningherald.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/culture/musi...

I want to see Trump go down as much as the next person but this Sascha Riley interview is not it, and it does a real disservice to Trump and Epstein's actual victims

- Kit Harington in a kimono, sat at a piano, crushing pills with a combat boot

I guess we did need fresh blood and I do trust these writers to make magic but it was a shaky start imo

- Ditto the Colonel Creampie joke, it was executed poorly and the setup was clunky
- lol @ Otto going hardcore anti-woke, "I called a subordinate a retard yesterday and no one flinched. And you know what Harper, tomorrow I might do it again"
- Eric and Harpier exchanging empty grandiosities

I know suspending reality is a large part of enjoying Industry but he really didn't seem like the kinda guy to order Hailey to pick up said chair either

- The first scene between Whitney and Jonah was off. Didn't buy either of them as banking execs, their repartee, particularly the black on black joke fell flat, and Max Minghella chair flip was limp and unconvincing.

Industry s4 kicks off in 4th gear and with a bunch of new faces, with mixed results
- Charlie Heaton's character picking up Kiernan Shipka looking very much like Natalia Dyer was on the nose

Mavi De Mars lost the defamation case brought by Guy Gerber It doesn't mean she's lying

Proof is one thing.
Truth is another.

New piece on law, headlines, and what’s getting lost in between.

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Just published a little update from Brazil — on burnout, clarity, Locomía, and the emotional weather of the past few weeks. politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/a-break-fr...

Instead of the usual newsletter, I’m sharing a few of the things I’ve been thinking about this week instead, including how much I love the new Lily Allen album in spite of myself, and how happy DJ Harvey’s set last Friday made me. xoxo

Ruminating, ruminating Lily Allen, Zohran Mamdani, DJ Harvey and other bits and bobs

I’m pressed for time this week (heading to Australia via South America next week, may or may not be returning to New York in a few months) and need to focus on packing up my apartment and doing other work that might be more lucrative and help with my credit card bill.

The Juan MacLean on Money, Medicine, and Meaning From DFA to the jungle, the veteran DJ and producer reflects on the cost of integrity and the pull of healing

Great interview by @annabel-ross.bsky.social with good-guy and great DJ, John (Juan) MacLean

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The Juan MacLean on Money, Medicine, and Meaning From DFA to the jungle, the veteran DJ and producer reflects on the cost of integrity and the pull of healing

Had one of my favourite-ever conversations for the newsletter with one of the nicest guys in music, The Juan MacLean politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-juan-m...

"I need the audience to be a muse, the muse, and I need to love them, or I can’t find it in me.” she commented in an interview this week. She's currently creating a new audience-as-muse composed of terfs...very curious to see the kind of music this produces

All the conversation around puberty blockers and questionable data re: the rate of trans-identifying youth is more often than not a smokescreen or a springboard for what morphs into generalised transphobia and bigotry. See her recent, "I've left the cult, get over it" comment.

The truth about Róisín's legacy Save for some unlikely redemption arc, she's torched it

My main point in this Róisín Murphy piece, which many people (terfs) seem to have missed, is that whether or not you agree with them her comments are extremely hurtful to trans people, an already vulnerable community politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

From breakdown to breakthrough In their new book, P.E. Moskowitz envisions a new world through drugs

Two weeks ago I interviewed @pempem.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Breaking Awake, in which their nervous breakdown and attempt to recover with the help of prescribed and illicit drugs sparked much bigger questions about what is making us depressed and anxious

Right?! 🥴

The truth about Róisín's legacy Save for some unlikely redemption arc, she's torched it

This week's newsletter is about the avant-pop icon who blocked me (and many others) this week. No one's out to get you, Róisín. We just want you to stop acting like a c*nt politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

the politics of dancing is evolving ✨ A new chapter for the newsletter, plus a reader feedback survey

A new chapter for the newsletter, plus a reader feedback survey. I’d be so grateful for your input ♥️