Recommended by Matthew Perpetua
Grace is very funny and has great taste, and is a very skilled curator of playlists. She's also a musician, so her perspective on music curation is totally different than mine – whereas I focus mostly on history, she's more about pulling together a lot of songs that all do the same musical trick.
Ryan is one of my favorite music critics, and he’s only gotten sharper since moving to Substack after years of focusing on Instagram. Ryan is full of love for a lot of music, but I think he’s at his best when he’s ripping into (sub)cultural moments he finds tacky and lame, like present-day Kanye West, The Dare, or Sophie’s posthumous album.
Magdalene Taylor writes about contemporary culture as a way of understanding how people are currently thinking about sex, relationships, and loneliness. She's very thoughtful, and you can tell that even when she's approaching dark subject matter and people who are probably broken beyond all repair, she's always rooting for everyone to have a better, happier experience with intimacy, love, and their sexuality.
