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Hey folks!1 Just want to keep this short and sweet. I’m closing down this Subtack, both Against the ’70s and The Best Album Brackets. The Best Album Brackets will be moving to Buttondown, which is primarily, far as I can tell, a email newsletter but has a web page/email archive as well. Here’s the good news: if you’ve subscribed here, I’ve already exported your address to the new place. Once I start sending from there, it should arrive in your inbox no problem. (Some of you may find you need to do a “click to verify” before you can get the newsletter; apologies.) I’m going to repost the first three Best Album newsletters on Buttondown with some edits and notes before posting a new one, so you may want to re-read them. (If
not, though, that’s okay, I’ll catch you up by the fourth.)
Against the ’70s will now appear here, as a kind of blog/website hosted by blot.im. There’s currently nothing there2, but I will soon be reposting everything from that newsletter, from the first post to the most current post, ideally once a day, until I debut a new post (likely Deep Red Part 33). Everyone who currently pays for Against the ’70s will have that subscription canceled and funds reimbursed if need be. (Same for The Best Album Brackets, I just don’t think anyone technically pays for it.) (Also also, I have an Against the ’70s Patreon, and I’m shutting that down too, for different reasons.)4
I’m sure most of my readers know why I’m leaving Substack, but just in case: Substack (which, admittedly, has a history of hosting fashy and TERFy content) was told that they host a number of straight-up Nazi newsletters and were they going to do anything about that? And they basically replied, Yeah, no, their money’s as good as anyone else’s. So exeunt stage left. Fuck Nazis, trans rights now, hope to see you at one or both of the other places.
Peace,
Kent
Nazi Punks fuck all the way off.
2/2/2025: Hey folks, this whole entry has been transferred over just for what you might call historical purposes. Basically, when Twitter went full-on fash, I used my Against the ’70s Substack to also host my long-running Best Album Brackets, which got confusing. This whole post was to announce that AT70s and Best Album Brackets were finally being separated into their own places.↩︎
Actually, now there are five posts up.↩︎
2/2/2025: Nope, didn’t happen! Deep Red Part 3 should make an appearance this year. Otherwise, after a year, the first new Against the ’70s post will show up here on February 10; by the time you read this, it will probably be posted.↩︎
2/2/2025: Because I needed the site up to transfer, by hand, all the posts one by one to the new site, both the Substack and the Patreon have been up this entire time, but, if I did everything right, no one got charged in that time. By the end of the first week of February, both of those sites should have been nuked.↩︎
