Rabbit Holed

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ranks their favorite microtrends in music that didn't get their own dedicated columns this year.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran talks to some of the creators behind a surge of communist TikTok edits trying to displace alt-right slop.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, in the wake of The Life of a Showgirl, they plunge into the depths of Taylor Swift fandom.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran checks in on all the recent goings-on at Spotify, including the company’s attempt to regulate AI-generated music.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, a night in the phone-free trenches of Andrew Yang’s new party prompts Kieran to ask, “Can a corporate-branded, offline-themed party actually be an effective balm for the brainrot?”

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran explores music inspired by Italian creatures like Tralalero Tralala and Tung Tung Tung Sahur. They also meet one of the brains behind the rot.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran looks under the hood of the fakemink hype machine. With recent co-signs from Frank Ocean and Drake, the young UK rapper is on pace to become a star. Does the music hold up?

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. In this edition, Kieran talks to artists ayowitty and bunii to make sense of a new wave of SoundCloud “indie rock.”

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week: AI’s freaky new groove in the realm of country music.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column could’ve been titled “Rabbit Holed’s Guide to the Galaxy,” as Kieran breaks down the art of music discovery into five increasingly fried tiers.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran has a sit-down with the mysterious creator of Music Place, a growing YouTube channel that recaptures the spirit of gonzo cratedigging.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran looks at how the glitzy Japanese genre city pop has become the latest victim of AI infestation.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran explores the dreamy malaise of bar italia and other alt-rockers who have emerged since the pandemic.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he explores how artificial intelligence has laid waste to the once-burgeoning world of lo-fi beats.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he reports live from the Pride event of the month: Swaggotfest.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week: a mid-year report from our intrepid internet explorer.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ruptures his eardrums exploring a new wave of 808 madness.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran explores the strange world of music made by artists hijacking the Instagram Reels algorithm.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week: how “YAJU&U,” a song made using AI, became a megahit in Japan.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran investigates how nasty bigotry has wormed its way into the endless scroll of TikTok brainrot.