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Chal Ravens has written a lovely in-depth review of Still In A Dream at London Review of BooksThere's even an LRB playlist so you can listen as you readKieran Press-Reynolds has a really entertaining survey of the stutter in pop and unpop music, from "K-K…

August is the deadest month.And somehow, even though you've been here so many times before, you're never prepared for the way that each week feels deader than the one before.

Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any other book this summer, but I feel obliged to draw your attention to a flurry of notable books, made by mates, that have come out recently or are about to come out...For instance, here's the latest from an old…

Chal Ravens has written a lovely in-depth review of Still In A Dream at London Review of Books There's even an LRB playlist so you can listen as you read.Also some very nice reviews from Classic Pop and ArtReview"One way to read the history of guitar music

REACTIONS FROM READERS WHO DIDN'T GET SENT IT FOR FREE"Surprised even myself by how much I enjoyed and devoured this book.

Check out my Instagram Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news about Still In A DreamNEW Baker's Dozen on reinvention of the guitar at The QuietusSTILL IN A DREAM UK TOUR JUNE 15-20Monday 15 - London - Rough Trade East Location: Old Truman…

Goodness, but it's been glorious out there in the parish lately.The combination of all that heavy rain earlier in the year - and the spell of cloudless skies and midsummer heat in late April - resulted in a virulent verdancy I've never seen before.What did

Our Kid with a Rabbit Holed about the wacky world of the Young Wikipedians who are frenziedly writing the second draft of music history.

Matthew Ingram has been on a bit of a tear of blogging recently at his several active blogs.

Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any music book this year that isn't called Still In A Dream....

"Still in a Dream is more than just a celebration of some enduringly wonderful music - it's a great book full stop, Reynolds' best yet.

Stephen Alexander, at his always interesting and insanely prolific blog Torpedo the Ark, brightens my day, at this ever more darkening time, with a post about three Simons of roughly the same age and with certain affinities: Armitage, Critchley, Reynolds.

Really happy to have the opportunity to write about one of my favorite albums of the 21st Century so far: Suburban Tours by Rangers.

Sweeping up the mince pie crumbs and taking down the tinsel, while feeling distinctly one-sherry-too-many green-about-the-gills - that's yours truly the day after the party celebrating 20 Years of Ghost Box.The anniversary celebration came about when a li…

Son vaults ahead of father by joining the select grouping of music critics who have had diss songs aimed at them by aggrieved musicians.

Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend, condensed into this pithy Pitchfork Q+A Kieran on Kirkslop (it's what you think it is) for GQDid a bunch of interviews while in Argentina - this one by Romina Zanellato…

A couple of things to read:Kieran spends a "messy evening" with Bassvictim, whose music is one of the rare things he's alerted me to that I actively enjoy, but who sound rather alarming as an interview experience.

Me and Kieran are going to Argentina this week for the 20th anniversary celebrations of Caja Negra, the Buenos Aires publisher who have put out nearly all of the books of mine that have been translated into Spanish.

A couple of related pieces from Kieran Press-Reynolds:1/ A sharply observed portrait for GQ of the trio behind the popular left-wing podcast TrueAnon.

Here's a funny and sharply observed report by Kieran Press-Reynolds on a "no phones" event called OFFLINE, the brainchild of ex-politician / President-wannabe Andrew Yang.

Poptimism - the debate that refuses to go away, yet never goes anywhere.

Fun piece by Kieran Press-Reynolds looking at oblique strategies for digging up weird music, with a hierarchy of engagements mode from basic to ultra-obscurantist.I had to look up the word "ran-through"

My friends Oliver Wang and Sharon Mizota are conducting a survey of music critics who currently work in America.

Writer-photographer Pat Blashill is a very old mate.

Hasten to read - while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours - this fascinating conversation between Kieran Press-Reynolds and Shawn Reynaldo (no relation) for the latter's substack First Floor.