Kieran Press-Reynolds
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For i-D, I hung out with the 17-year-old "evil Justin Bieber," "new-gen Kurt Cobain," post-rage prodigy @nettspend as he worked in the studio and after a feverish show. Here's a deep look into one of the most thrilling and polarizing new cult phenoms: i-d.co/article/nettsp…
Hyperreal pop, installations of chairs pierced by arrows, uncanny films where Smurf couples hug and do the Polish polonaise. Elia Brülhart interviewed Charlie Osborne, the "clown show"-producing oddball repping a new London scene outside the mainstream: nobells.blog/charlie-osborn…
Was sent the Che album advance on an iPod Shuffle. Having to sit with this incredibly busy and active music with limited info was both frustrating and cathartic. My favorite rap release of the year, so far pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
went to philadelphia to talk to alex g pitchfork.com/features/alex-…
whenever the bagel store runs out of seeded bagels and i'm forced to get a Plain now i feel viscerally creeped out like it's a hairless cat or something unnaturally denuded
for my new column, I dug into a bunch of hazy new-gen alt-rock—from bar italia and untitled halo to Chanel Beads and deer park—and wrote about the dreamy thrill of this fragmentary, actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise music pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-d…
.@kieranpressreyn investigates how nasty bigotry has wormed its way into the endless scroll of TikTok brainrot. Read more here: pitchfork.visitlink.me/ImGGFd
damn they got ai beats in my laundromat now they read the piece
for my new column, I wrote about how AI Killed the Lo-Fi Star: the relaxing beats genre is now swamped in AI slop with titles that read like Airbnb listings, and the passionate heads who've depended on it for income/community/inspiration are panicking pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-a…
New writer Archie Forde is here with an in-depth scene report on Ireland's new musical vanguard—deathtoricky, Catacombs, EUROWORLD—fighting against club closures and carving out a pocket of Irish culture that's not just "trying to imitate UK scenes" nobells.blog/irish-boy-summ…
This is for the people nursed on Monstercat, for collectors of Skullcandy headphones, for whom love in 2025 feels like a Syzy-ian EDM-trap eruption of noise pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks…
for my new column, I wrote about SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene - along with a renegade rave the next night pitchfork.com/thepitch/all-n…
