Interviewing new artists is not the most riveting experience but it's interesting to hear how they move through their creation process. Case in point, Good Neighbours whom I interviewed for SPIN: spin.com/2025/10/good-n… Their album "Blue Sky Mentality" is released tomorrow.

ICYMI, @DJMag announced its always controversial Top 100 DJs this week and I wrote up six of them for the list: @AlokOficial Hardwell @HUGEL THE CHAINSMOKERS @Wukong_World VINAI. Check out the whole list here: djmag.com/top100djs

Everything @RichardAshcroft says is gold and it's always been that way. He spoke for 52 minutes straight without me asking him a single question when I "interviewed" him for SPIN ahead of the release of his new album, which is out this Friday: spin.com/2025/10/richar…

It's been a week (or two) of Cyndi Lauper for me culminating in a five-moment recap of "A GRAMMY Salute To Cyndi Lauper" for Recording Academy / GRAMMYs @ GRAMMY.com: grammy.com/news/a-grammy-… The special is streaming now on Paramount+ and is totally worth watching.

Pictures of Lily Podcast Hits *ONE HUNDRED* episodes and who better to commemorate this milestone with than Boy George and our 2001 interview, which is the only one we've done in 35 years of friendship and it's a doozy at one hour and 36 minutes. Enjoy! pictures-of-lily.com/2025/10/08/pic…

Lily Moayeri لی لی Book and Film Globe Lily, your essay captures really well how school book bans harm so many, and how The Librarians showcases the dedicated individuals navigating the often treacherous waters when trying to give young minds access to what they need.

"These kids who slip into my library and try to fade into the furnishings are hiding their true selves from their parents out of fear of rejection or punishment." Excellent review by Lily Moayeri لی لی of The Librarians, which we saw last night at an enthusiastic full house Hot Docs

A couple of days ago Kat Bein sent out the best piece of writing I've read in a long time in her "Kat Scrawls" newsletter using Taylor Swift's album as a metaphor for everything that is wrong with music and music journalism, 100% co-sign: superkatworld.substack.com/p/kat-says-tay…

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