(1963-06-19) 19 June 1963 (age 60) London, England
Occupation
Music critic, author
Alma mater
Brasenose College, Oxford
Period
1986–present
Spouse
Joy Press
Website
blissout.blogspot.com
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s. He subsequently worked as a freelancer and published a number of books on music and popular culture.[1]
Reynolds has contributed to Spin, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Wire, Pitchfork and others.
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SimonReynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s. He subsequently worked...
to the geopolitical instability of the late 1970s. Music journalist SimonReynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration...
didn't take it seriously. That's how stupid we were." Music critic SimonReynolds said Curtis's suicide "made for instant myth". Jon Savage's obituary...
Fisher began his blog on cultural theory, k-punk, in 2003. Music critic SimonReynolds described it as "a one-man magazine superior to most magazines in Britain"...
discussion. Rebel MC is often noted for having popularised the term, and in SimonReynolds' book Energy Flash, MC Navigator is quoted as attributing the word to...
term. In the 2000s, the term was applied to musicians by theorists SimonReynolds and Mark Fisher, who were said to explore ideas related to temporal...
rise of melancholy alternative music in the '80s". According to critic SimonReynolds, Joy Division's influence has extended from contemporaries such as U2...
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17 December 2022. SimonReynolds, in an interview with former Mille Plateaux label boss Achim Szepanski, for Wire Magazine. Reynolds, S. (1996), Low end...
22 December 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2019. Reynolds, Simon. "A Classic Aphex Twin Interview. SimonReynolds Talks To Richard D. James". The Quietus. Retrieved...
cite artists or thinkers, rather than musicians, as their inspiration. SimonReynolds declares that "Being a Throbbing Gristle fan was like enrolling in a...
difficult to hear or incomprehensible in the mix. In the view of critic SimonReynolds, dream pop "celebrates rapturous and transcendent experiences, often...
subversive or parodic elements" of vaporwave in 2018, cultural critic SimonReynolds said that the genre had been made redundant, in some respects, by modern...
commercial success from 2008 with her debut album The Fame. Music writer SimonReynolds noted that "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the...
expectations for his friend to change in order to fit into his lifestyle. SimonReynolds of Digital Spy found their friendship to be lacking in warmth. A.O....
emerge during the 1980s was Manchester's the Smiths. Music journalist SimonReynolds singled out the Smiths and their American contemporaries R.E.M. as "the...
police station by a friend of James' who worked there as a cleaner. SimonReynolds commented that on Volume II James changed styles "from the idyllic,...
Rave Music and Dance Culture is a book by English music journalist SimonReynolds which chronicles the development of dance and rave music from the mid...
Thompson to delineate the same musical phenomenon in their books, while SimonReynolds began using the term "goth-lite" (or "post-goth", a term he coined in...
drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals." According to SimonReynolds, dubstep's constituents originally came from "different points in the...
crossover" to the dancibility of the songs. Another music journalist, SimonReynolds, theorized that, just as in the first British Invasion, the use of African-American...
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