Lior Phillips
@liorphillips.bsky.social
verklempt, mostly.
🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher
🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist
chicago via cape town
🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher
🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist
chicago via cape town
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Lior Phillips
@liorphillips.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Helooo 👀 passionately launching myself out of the cannon of bsky: I’m a music writer/editor/culture journo based in Chicago frm Cape Town, South Africa! After yrs of ardently advocating for artists outside the US/UK press stream, I wrote a 33 1/3 book on the history of popular music frm South Africa
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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You can ask me a question.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
May 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
You can ask me a question.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
🪽📚Today is Indie Bookstore Dayeee!
If you happen to find yourself moseying around in one and see my book sitting there on the shelves, and you buy my book, plssss message the hell outta me on whatever platform and I'll make sure you get a tinytoiny surprise in the mail 📬
If you happen to find yourself moseying around in one and see my book sitting there on the shelves, and you buy my book, plssss message the hell outta me on whatever platform and I'll make sure you get a tinytoiny surprise in the mail 📬
April 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🪽📚Today is Indie Bookstore Dayeee!
If you happen to find yourself moseying around in one and see my book sitting there on the shelves, and you buy my book, plssss message the hell outta me on whatever platform and I'll make sure you get a tinytoiny surprise in the mail 📬
If you happen to find yourself moseying around in one and see my book sitting there on the shelves, and you buy my book, plssss message the hell outta me on whatever platform and I'll make sure you get a tinytoiny surprise in the mail 📬
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Kanye West edition
April 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Kanye West edition
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"Music can be imperfect & still be wonderful; a performance can be meaningful & important while still being full of inevitable human flaws. In the end, quite a lot of things did go wrong & none of it mattered". I wrote about our recent gigs, my first in 25 years❤️ www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
I loved performing again, but it reminded me to keep one foot in normal life
Our gigs went better than I could have hoped; even the things that went wrong added to the magic.
www.newstatesman.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Music can be imperfect & still be wonderful; a performance can be meaningful & important while still being full of inevitable human flaws. In the end, quite a lot of things did go wrong & none of it mattered". I wrote about our recent gigs, my first in 25 years❤️ www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
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See the movies or don't, read your kids whatever you want, but this self-portrait of a gloating hatemonger is the identity she has chosen.
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
See the movies or don't, read your kids whatever you want, but this self-portrait of a gloating hatemonger is the identity she has chosen.
my 4 year old twin just told me that Turnstile is “old people music”
April 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
my 4 year old twin just told me that Turnstile is “old people music”
when the words arrive but it lacks centrifugal motion, perpetual bliss, and a pivotal moment:
March 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
when the words arrive but it lacks centrifugal motion, perpetual bliss, and a pivotal moment:
when i say im on zoom this is what i mean
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
when i say im on zoom this is what i mean
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tfw you’re wondering why Anora didn’t have more feet in it
March 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
tfw you’re wondering why Anora didn’t have more feet in it
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Periodic nod of respect to Joanna Newsom for only showing up in two songs on all of Spotify: The Muppets Theme Song and that track where The Roots sampled “The Book of Right On.”
February 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Periodic nod of respect to Joanna Newsom for only showing up in two songs on all of Spotify: The Muppets Theme Song and that track where The Roots sampled “The Book of Right On.”
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before anyone else decides to explain 1) ticketmaster 2) patti smith to me please at least read my fucking book
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
February 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
before anyone else decides to explain 1) ticketmaster 2) patti smith to me please at least read my fucking book
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
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i wrote about kendrick's super bowl halftime show and the gestures it did make and was never going to make, and what we use the super bowl halftime show for even www.vulture.com/article/kend...
Kendrick Lamar Is Not Your Savior
His halftime set did little more than underline his beef with Drake.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
i wrote about kendrick's super bowl halftime show and the gestures it did make and was never going to make, and what we use the super bowl halftime show for even www.vulture.com/article/kend...
wait can someone please explain to me how kevin costner and pete davidson are sitting next to each other at the suprbwl
February 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
wait can someone please explain to me how kevin costner and pete davidson are sitting next to each other at the suprbwl
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Three donations away from hitting 370!
We’re at 363 individual donations to my contribution to the Save the Reader fundraiser. Can we reach 370 by the end of the day? Any dollar amount helps! donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...
donorbox.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Three donations away from hitting 370!
THIS IS TONIIIIIIGHT! come say hi 🫡❤️🔥
honored, floored, moved~just so excited to speak to Neko Case (!) about her astonishly brilliant memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, at the Studebaker Theater presented by my fave bookstore, Exile in Bookville. How lucky am i to be in conversation with someone who i admire and adore?!
February 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
THIS IS TONIIIIIIGHT! come say hi 🫡❤️🔥
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What, and I can't emphasize this enough, the fuck? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Former PRH India Editor Develops AI-Powered Editorial Platform
Editrix, a new AI-powered editorial platform founded by Meru Gokhale, aims to provide automated developmental editing, structural editing, and inline editing capabilities for fiction and nonfiction ma...
www.publishersweekly.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What, and I can't emphasize this enough, the fuck? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
the look on my bank balance when i attempt to buy beyoncé concert tickets
February 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
the look on my bank balance when i attempt to buy beyoncé concert tickets
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All Drake had to do was ignore a minor shot at him and now a song calling him a pedophile just won Record of the Year at the Grammys.
February 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
All Drake had to do was ignore a minor shot at him and now a song calling him a pedophile just won Record of the Year at the Grammys.
just want to remind everyone that herbie hancock is 84
February 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
just want to remind everyone that herbie hancock is 84
OH MAAAA GAAAAAAAAHDDDD
February 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
OH MAAAA GAAAAAAAAHDDDD
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covering some performances at the GRAMMYs for the GRAMMYs which is a great excuse to keep my 4 year old twin up bc he loves music and chappell roan - so it’s work? i’m showing him good work ethic?
February 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
covering some performances at the GRAMMYs for the GRAMMYs which is a great excuse to keep my 4 year old twin up bc he loves music and chappell roan - so it’s work? i’m showing him good work ethic?