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Neil Shah
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Writing a book about 2010s hip-hop (Doubleday, 2027) || Former pop-music reporter for The Wall Street Journal (2015-2025) || drinking margaritas at the mall
cameron winter live tonight @ the stern auditorium @ carnegie hall “love takes miles”
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Favorite Songs in '25
MJ Lenderman (This Is Lorelei cover) Dancing in the Club
Morgan Wallen I’m a Little Crazy; Smile
Oklou thank you for recording
Lady Gaga Abracadabra
Florry first it was a movie, then it was a book
Turnstile Time Is Happening
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
where we were five years ago
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Farewell Transmission
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“You’re never grown up.”
—Keith Richards
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hip-hop’s market share (Billboard):
*2020: ~30%
*2023: ~25%
*January 2025 through the week of Oct. 23: 24%
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
cindy lee live tonight at brooklyn paramount
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
you need one victory
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
mj lenderman tonight at king’s theatre; “dancing in the club” (this is lorelei cover); final show of the “manning fireworks” album cycle
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
D'Angelo & W. Axl Rose

*Exceptional singers
*Sons of Pentecostal preachers (stepson, in Axl’s case)
*Perfectionists
*Unusually long stretches between albums, despite record-company pressure
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
one of the most consistently great discographies in pop history
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the damned “new rose” (the first-ever punk single) last night at CBGB fest at under the k bridge park
September 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
since radiohead isn’t making new music i’ll have to settle for the radiohead-y stretches of new geese, deafheaven and spoon songs
September 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
with sylvia rhone gone at epic, taylor lindsey (sony music nashville) is now the only female CEO at a leading/major record label*

*republic; interscope geffen a&m; capitol music group; warner records; atlantic; rca; columbia; epic; sony music latin; alamo; etc.
September 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM