Zach Schonfeld
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: [email protected].
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Zach Schonfeld
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
· Nov 17
My book is finally out now. I spent three years researching Nicolas Cage's early years, studying his formative performances, and interviewing more than 120 people who worked with him and shared untold stories with me. I hope you find it interesting.
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The 1993 mid-handoff moment between shoegaze and Britpop has always been one of my hyperspecific musical sweet spots. Zach does a tremendous job here capturing both that moment and probably the greatest album it produced.
For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The 1993 mid-handoff moment between shoegaze and Britpop has always been one of my hyperspecific musical sweet spots. Zach does a tremendous job here capturing both that moment and probably the greatest album it produced.
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Deeply delighted to share out @zachschonfeld.bsky.social's @pitchfork.com Sunday Reviews piece on one of my all time fave albums, the #BooRadleys 1993 masterwork _Giant Steps_. I helped Zach a touch with research and he kindly quoted from my 1993 interview with bassist Tim Brown.
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Deeply delighted to share out @zachschonfeld.bsky.social's @pitchfork.com Sunday Reviews piece on one of my all time fave albums, the #BooRadleys 1993 masterwork _Giant Steps_. I helped Zach a touch with research and he kindly quoted from my 1993 interview with bassist Tim Brown.
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One of my favorite writers on one of my favorite albums.
For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One of my favorite writers on one of my favorite albums.
For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.
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my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
"We love Das Racist, don't we, folks," Trump just informed a bewildered rally crowd in Iowa. "A lotta people are saying Shut Up, Dude crystallized a post-Datpiff era of NYC dirtbag rap. That was the blog-rap peak, folks."
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"We love Das Racist, don't we, folks," Trump just informed a bewildered rally crowd in Iowa. "A lotta people are saying Shut Up, Dude crystallized a post-Datpiff era of NYC dirtbag rap. That was the blog-rap peak, folks."
I think it would be neat if they released a "super deluxe" reissue of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that's shorter than the original album.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think it would be neat if they released a "super deluxe" reissue of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that's shorter than the original album.
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Greg Ginn hadn't done an interview in 13 years when I reached out. I figured he would say no, if he said anything at all. But after enlisting three Gen Z musicians to be in Black Flag with him, he decided it was time to talk. For @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
Black Flag’s Latest Reboot Has Everyone Talking (Even Greg Ginn)
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Greg Ginn hadn't done an interview in 13 years when I reached out. I figured he would say no, if he said anything at all. But after enlisting three Gen Z musicians to be in Black Flag with him, he decided it was time to talk. For @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
The first sound you hear on Ill Communication is actually a sample of a dog saying "I love you" in a 1993 Little Caesars commercial.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The first sound you hear on Ill Communication is actually a sample of a dog saying "I love you" in a 1993 Little Caesars commercial.
I learned from this excellent piece that Olivia Nuzzi is now being represented by Risa Heller, the crisis-communications expert who was hired by Win Butler in 2022 and by Ivanka Trump during Trump's first term.
Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives
How many sins can one career survive?
www.discourseblog.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I learned from this excellent piece that Olivia Nuzzi is now being represented by Risa Heller, the crisis-communications expert who was hired by Win Butler in 2022 and by Ivanka Trump during Trump's first term.
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After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
Incredible! Using the power of AI, we can now imagine what an R.E.M. reunion album would sound like.
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Incredible! Using the power of AI, we can now imagine what an R.E.M. reunion album would sound like.
Wildly prolific indie-rock hero Asher White performing a free show at Rough Trade yesterday
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Wildly prolific indie-rock hero Asher White performing a free show at Rough Trade yesterday
JAY KELLY (2025): Noah Baumbach will not rest until he has cast every beloved male movie star over 50 as a disappointing dad and I do love him for that.
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
JAY KELLY (2025): Noah Baumbach will not rest until he has cast every beloved male movie star over 50 as a disappointing dad and I do love him for that.
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Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More
With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."
hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
Olivia Nuzzi should have titled the memoir "Waiting for the Worm to Come"
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Olivia Nuzzi should have titled the memoir "Waiting for the Worm to Come"
It Happened To Me: I used to be a Yorgos skeptic and now I think his freakification of Emma Stone is one of the greatest actor-director collaborations of the 21st century. Here's my review of Bugonia:
Bugonia Review: Yorgos Lanthimos' Sharp, Surreal Stinger
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons buzz through a wickedly funny thriller of abduction, alienation, and apiculture.
www.metroweekly.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It Happened To Me: I used to be a Yorgos skeptic and now I think his freakification of Emma Stone is one of the greatest actor-director collaborations of the 21st century. Here's my review of Bugonia:
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
All the components of a normal academic career
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
All the components of a normal academic career
I think I managed to get my dad into Judee Sill. He is Sill-pilled now.
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think I managed to get my dad into Judee Sill. He is Sill-pilled now.
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’” was a huge success, but one glance at the New York City skyline will tell you that a pivotal part of the music video is no l...
thehardtimes.net
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Where Are They Now: The Two Towers Featured Prominently in the Music Video for Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin”?
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One thing the Scorsese and Billy Joel documentaries have in common, besides the most mellifluous accents imaginable, is the insistence that they could not and did not do it alone. Schoonmaker, De Niro, DiCaprio, and to a lesser extent Pileggi and Schrader help form "Martin Scorsese" like Voltron.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One thing the Scorsese and Billy Joel documentaries have in common, besides the most mellifluous accents imaginable, is the insistence that they could not and did not do it alone. Schoonmaker, De Niro, DiCaprio, and to a lesser extent Pileggi and Schrader help form "Martin Scorsese" like Voltron.
Historians believe Johnny Cash wrote his iconic song "Hurt" in 2002 after a 72-hour suspension from Bluesky made him reflect on his mortality.
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Historians believe Johnny Cash wrote his iconic song "Hurt" in 2002 after a 72-hour suspension from Bluesky made him reflect on his mortality.
Not a joke: I've discovered that my name appears in Jeffrey Epstein's emails because Flipboard sent him a link roundup that included one of my articles on July 16, 2019, which was ten days after his arrest.
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not a joke: I've discovered that my name appears in Jeffrey Epstein's emails because Flipboard sent him a link roundup that included one of my articles on July 16, 2019, which was ten days after his arrest.