Reposted by jill mapesJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313108381
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I rly want to call out the (employed) veteran critic who keeps signing up for free trials on hearing things instead of buying a sub lmao 060
Reposted by jill mapesJudy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Excited to share this project I've been working on for months: a long list of the most underappreciated TV shows of a dizzyingly overabundant 21st century. The research for this was so fun—revisiting great shows I barely remembered, finally getting to watch others that had been on my list for yearstime.comThe 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows of the 21st CenturyFrom 'Undeclared' and 'Bunheads' to 'The Knick' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated TV shows of the 21st Century. 4829844
Reposted by jill mapesMaggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Is anyone like... making money these days? Anywhere? Anyhow? Asking for... well no, I'm asking for me. But also, bc @rahawahaile.bsky.social just really made some excellent points here. www.talkscratch.com/legacy-media...talkscratch.comLegacy Media Wants to Hire You (No, Not You)Not me either, but that's OK. 0103
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I rly appreciate the feedback and shares on my latest essay, the commiseration helps and this pure-hearted comment brought a tear to my eye 1120
Reposted by jill mapesMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 13/08/2026At @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @jillmapes.bsky.social has a fine piece. I'd argue that writer-owned outlets like Hearing Things, @theflytrapmedia.com, and @flaminghydra.com are slowly building the right answer, guess what we don't have to go fast or 'scale' www.hearingthings.co/the-latest-e...hearingthings.coThe Latest Elegy for Music Journalism and Middle-Class MusicianhoodSometimes professional failure isn’t your fault. 0144
Reposted by jill mapesLarry Fitzmaurice @larryfitzmaurice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Wrote something quick about the mass layoffs in music writing that took place yesterday, as well as the phenomenon of "posting about the death of music writing," the unavoidable celebrity industrial complex, and embracing the reality of the present last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/12-thoughts-...last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io12 Thoughts on the Latest Round of Music Writing LayoffsThis is a free post from Larry Fitzmaurice's Last Donut of the Night newsletter. Paid subscribers get one or two email-only Baker's Dozens every week featuring music I've been listening to and some cr... 1179
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026last donut of the night once again w/ a good insider interview, *Susie Essman voice* luv ya Lar 021
Reposted by jill mapesRahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I am obligated to remind folks that @coyotemedia.org is queer as fuck, worker-owned, and published this today.coyotemedia.orgPunk Is GayAn illustrated interview with Kochina Rude! 16118
Reposted by jill mapesOne Punch-In Man @cinemasai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026profiled Wiki for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social. we spent the afternoon of Game 3 of the Knicks/Spurs Finals in Seward Park talking sobriety, Marty Supreme, the ever-changing NY indie rap scene, and Ancient History (exclusive 📸 by @thisisnotaphotograph.com!)hearingthings.coA Day in the Park with WikiThe influential New York rapper soaks in the city’s greenery while talking about growing up without aging out, his struggles with sobriety, and crafting his lush new album, Ancient History. 12010
Reposted by jill mapesCraig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 11/06/2026y'all only getting 1/3 of the information in that pic / shoot 39020
Reposted by jill mapesHearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Turns out there's more gas left in the tank of ye old Death Cab.hearingthings.coPut a Seashell to Your EarPlus Vince Staples’ rock album, Death Cab’s comeback, and Must-Hear Mexican R&B 071
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I wrote about phoebe bridgers, parasocial relationships vs. intentional mystery, and the gift of live music without phoneshearingthings.coTalking About How I’m Not Supposed to Talk About Phoebe Bridgers’ New AlbumThe indie-folk singer-songwriter pulled off a phones-free tour and arena show featuring new material with no leaks or big spoilers. 070
Reposted by jill mapesMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026this is a masterpiece 247210888228
Reposted by jill mapesCourtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Our @weareravenous.com newsletter drop on Sunday was a collab with my friend @jillmapes.bsky.social from @hearingthingsco.bsky.social about what it’s like to start a worker owned co-op. Um, it’s a lot of work. 143
Reposted by jill mapesJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 17/05/2026For our Sunday newsletter today got a really amazing convo between @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social and @jillmapes.bsky.social about worker owned media. If you’re a @weareravenous.com subscriber it’s in your inbox! www.weareravenous.com/email/3e2260...weareravenous.comThe Biggest Surprise of Building a Worker-Owned PublicationWe talked to Jill Mapes at Hearing Things about getting scrappy in building a worker-owned music culture site. 0148
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026exactly what my dad said when i took him to see Dylan *checks notes* 18 years ago 280
Reposted by jill mapesJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11/05/2026PLEASE read @jillmapes.bsky.social on Michael Jackson in @hearingthingsco.bsky.social 0133
Reposted by jill mapesHearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This week in song recommendations: a different side of "Dilla," a UK rap banger reccomended by at least one doctor, and more www.hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-m...hearingthings.coLucy Dacus Makes More Than Just Sad MusicThe singer-songwriter gets back to what she does best on a new single. 053
Reposted by jill mapesRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/04/2026For $10 I will go to your ex’s music page and comment “what’s going on with the mix on this one?” 1121223
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026this is one of the best profiles I’ve read in a while, bravo @cushac.bsky.social 011
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I wrote about my love and fomo for nine inch noize, the goated status of daft punk live LPs, gym bros loving fat girls (and nin), the usual 021
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I’m gonna need every woman writer who wrote about music once to calm down about Mile End Kicks and stop quoting the Euphoria “is this play about us” line. The nostalgic fangirling is lame especially for a movie where she fucks her sources 150
Reposted by jill mapesHearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Something that lives rent-free in my head since reading the Hole bassist's memoir: Courtney Love once called Melissa Auf der Maur "Billy Corgan's purse."hearingthings.coGirlhood at the Epicenter of Alternative Music’s Mainstream MomentHole’s Melissa Auf der Maur looks back lucidly on her 1990s in “Even the Good Girls Will Cry,” as I seek out memoirs by levelheaded women artists from the generation before mine. 2234
Reposted by jill mapesCLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026If you are very lucky, one day you will find a job you love as much as the NYT loves covering gender-affirming care for cis people 1748
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026cum get yr honey (and by honey I mean my review of Robyn’s delightful horny-mom album) 020
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026wrote about grace ives, who swings for the pop fences and almost gets there 061
Reposted by jill mapesHearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Now on our podcast Waste or Taste: J Balvin, Amber Mark, and Steve Vai's methed-out World Cup song, horny country music, Earl Sweatshirt, and morehearingthings.coDoes Horny Music Have to *Sound* Horny?Our podcast crew goes deep on the merits of thirsty tracks in honor of Kacey Musgraves’ horned-up new single. Plus: Mike and Earl Sweatshirt, and a clinically insane cover of Van Halen’s “Jump.” 051
Reposted by jill mapesHearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 19/03/2026You don’t just show up to breakfast with a stranger and stick your finger directly in the mother wound over pancakes and eggs. That kind of talk is for the cigarette afterwards.hearingthings.coSlowing Down With Jana HornThis experimental folk singer-songwriter moonlights as a short story author—or is it the other way around? 051
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026one of the craziest music stories I’ve heard in a min 050
Reposted by jill mapesjesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 9339145
Reposted by jill mapesBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/03/2026On Friday, I proudly joined the workers of the Nitehawk Union – the servers, runners, cooks, and bartenders who make it a real community movie theater – in their fight for a good union contract, with the wages they deserve & need to survive in this expensive city. (2/2) 111514
Reposted by jill mapesDerek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere 1243276552
Reposted by jill mapesPeretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2026www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-... the continued normalization and laundering of anti-intellectualism, as seen here, is and will continue to have lasting damaging effects on young and aspiring artists of all mediums for generations to come.billboard.comIs Suno the Music Industry’s Biggest Nightmare — or Greatest Hope?Suno, an artificial intelligence music startup, is an increasingly controversial topic. Is it the industry's biggest nightmare or greatest hope? 2449
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026new podcast ep! this is actually not my deranged take! 010
Reposted by jill mapesChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...columnblog.comCorporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School AttackNo front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page. 6341972081
Reposted by jill mapesliz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026feb headlines ep of @criticallistening.bsky.social is live! we discuss spotify's recent update to shareholders (aka I read the spotify q4 earnings call transcript so you don't have to) & also chat with @jillmapes.bsky.social about her essay on the wasserman exodus-- www.patreon.com/posts/episod...patreon.comEpisode 12: February 2026 Headlines | Critical ListeningGet more from Critical Listening on Patreon 1204
Reposted by jill mapesJudy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I guess my problem with the defense of "Wuthering Heights" on the grounds that Fennell intended to recreate the feeling of reading the book as a hormone-wrecked teen is that Kate Bush did precisely that, *as* a hormone-wrecked teen, in a four-and-a-half-minute song. And she did it better. 2295
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026this is what happens when you fire real arts critics 080
Reposted by jill mapesSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous 106204685191
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