Amos Barshad

Longtime music journalist. Contributor for @Thefader. Documenting the rhythm of culture.

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@RickyDeanFisher They better listen to Oxygen 2 also, that’s a Real Masterpiece 🔥

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Happy Wednesday! On the show today: @CJR's @amos_barshad, @AFTunion's @rweingarten and @RepAprilDelaney!

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Solid advice from a 60 Minutes expert: “This may be the most expensive attempt to train people to do something in the history of broadcasting.” https://t.co/QNBCjywMDS via @cjr https://t.co/QNBCjywMDS via @cjr @amos_barshad

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Some right-wing news influencers are using Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses as a recording tool that unwilling subjects may not be aware of, leading to tension (@amos_barshad / Columbia Journalism Review)

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Karol G says that she has been warned not to say “ICE out” during her Coachella performance.

“People will say, ‘It’s better you don’t… Because if you say the thing, maybe the next day you’ll get a call: ‘Hey, we are taking your visa away’.”

She is set to make history on Sunday as the first Latina artist to headline the festival.

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Laufey announces that Hudson Williams will feature in the "Madwoman" music video.

So far she's announced:
Alysa Liu
Megan Skiendiel
Lola Tung

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What’s Up with Tony? | @amos_barshad

How Tony Dokoupil went from being a hair model to a print journalist to the anchor of CBS Evening News, guided by the principle “We love America.”
https://t.co/24nKu5QpWl | @CJR

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A profile of CBS' Tony Dokoupil: his start at Newsweek and NBC News, the shift to on-camera work, and ex-colleagues' surprise at some of his current coverage (@amos_barshad / Columbia Journalism Review)

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In a country where the military has control over what’s reported, some journalists consider approval to be “a source of pride.” Read Amos Barshad. https://t.co/bEbLW531Mm

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A former coworker on Tony Dokoupil: "He was such a good writer. I was jealous." Same coworker now: "I would never think that he would be, like, a mouthpiece for the state." Great @CJR piece by @amos_barshad on how CBS's beautiful hair boy became what he is https://t.co/GkhGkbtTlR

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Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Yung Lean, and Fetty Wap for Calvin Klein's "In My Calvin's" campaign (2016)

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Veeze and Rylo Rodriguez pay homage to Kyrie Irving with Lil Baby on "One of Them Ones" https://t.co/e6aKB9bysx

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Revisit her 2000s FADER cover story here: https://t.co/CtoEAJ8QoW

✍️: Ekow Eshun
📸: Patrick Demarchelier

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For a year that was totally bad, there was a ton of great music. Presenting The FADER's 50 best albums of the year.

See the full list: https://t.co/AiybpSWOyf

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34 lists that sum up the highs and lows of a weird-ass year.
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JT reveals that her prison bunkee put her on to Ariana Grande's 'Sweetener.'

"'Sweetener' got me through my prison sentence. My bunkee Caitlin, she was obsessed with Ariana Grande. We started listening to the songs together. And I was just falling in love. And then I became more of an Arianator than her by the end," she shared in a recent interview with Dazed.

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Timothée Chalamet and Esdeekidd are finally spotted In the same room.

They dropped a surprise music video together and Chalamet returned to his rap roots to deliver a remix of EsDeeKid’s song “4 Raws.”

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redveil’s fourth album 'sankofa' is here.

He wrote, produced, and performed the entire project, saying these songs are the best he’s ever made.