What Magical Dancefloors Readers Read
Who are you, and what else are you reading? A look at the Substacks most commonly read by Magical Dancefloors subscribers, from dance music and nightlife to taste, culture, politics, and power.
I got curious about the other Substack publications that you read and want to share my findings with you. Maybe you’ll find your next favorite read amongst this list.
I share below the publications that have more than 50 readers who also read Magical Dancefloors. The eclectic list defies easy categorization, but a few themes do emerge: you’re cultural omnivores, music-first but not music-only, drawn to taste-making, nightlife, independent media, queer/countercultural scenes, and you enjoy smart commentary about how culture and power work.
You especially dig writing about dance music as culture, not just as music for passive consumption, especially if it’s got countercultural, queer, psychedelic, and/or spiritual edge. You read about nightlife, drugs, queer culture, scenes, DJs, spiritual experiences, social history, and taste. Examples: Shawn Reynaldo’s First Floor, Journal of the Motherbeat by Eris Drew, Rave New World by Michelle Lhooq, Berlin Waveforms by Liam Cagney, The Deviant Dispatch by mo aka DJ GAY PANIC, Vincent Jenewein’s Infinite Speeds, Bandcamp’s Bandcamp Notes, Call Super’s Arpozine, and Joe’s Bass, Mids, Tops and the Rest.
So here’s the list — feel free to reply with your favorite publication if it seems like it belongs in the list, even if it didn’t meet the “50 subscribers” cutoff that I had to use for space reasons. Despite the risk of making big publications bigger, the list is ordered by popularity.
First Floor
Journal of the Motherbeat
Numb at the Lodge
charli’s substack
internet princess
Patti Smith
The Honest Broker
Good Thing Going
ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS
Blackbird Spyplane | Unbeatable Recon | Style•Culture•Travel
Letters from an American
The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks
Maybe Baby
Feed Me
Futurism Restated
Miranda July
The Rose Period
FLESH WORLD by Jessica DeFino
caleb! by caleb
Escaping Flatland
No Tags
The Eye with Ken Sakata
father_karine
Rave New World
“It’s Ottessa, bitch.”
The Deviant Dispatch
Better Brain by Dr. Julie
weird medieval guys
a newsletter
Instead of Doomscrolling
The Culturist
High Brow
Hung Up
personal canon
The Free Press
The Molehill
Experimental History
The New Yorker
Vittles
Ken Klippenstein
Paul Krugman
Perfectly Imperfect
✿ shit you should care about ✿
Derek Thompson
New Bands for Old Heads
Story Club with George Saunders
Astral Codex Ten
Herb Sundays
words from eliza
Ottolenghi
Knowingless
Telling the Bees
The Audacity.
A Low Desire To Please with Jameela Jamil
Another New Thing with Kareem Rahma
What To Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking
Kyla’s Newsletter
Read Max - Now on Patreon!
zensounds
Catherine Shannon
Noahpinion
Outer Frequencies Radio
@jasmine’s substack
In the Writing Burrow
Mental Hellth
The Politics of Dancing
there_y0u_are
rent free.
Grace Blakeley
Things That Don’t Suck
After Babel
doechii
The Cereal Aisle by Leandra Medine Cohen
Zeteo
Bandcamp Notes
Line Noise
Doomscroll
Infinite Speeds
Useful Fictions
ART DIRECTION
Lenny’s Newsletter
Drop Site News
Robert Reich
The Paris Review
a grain of salt
Transtrender
User Mag
Freddie deBoer
Saweeeties
The Etymology Nerd
Serious Literary Author
The Microdose
Object Labels
Austin Kleon
Cartoons Hate Her
London Centric
Sasha’s ‘Newsletter’
Articles Of Interest
Books + Bits
Hot Dish with Sohla
How to Survive the Broligarchy
Sherry Ning
Sub Club
Animation Obsessive
Diabolical Lies
One Useful Thing
good mood food
The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad
After School by Casey Lewis
The Prism
angel cake
GIRLS
Shop Rat by Emilia Petrarca
How to AI
ivy wolk’s blog
Matriarchal Blessing
Do Not Research
Strange Pilgrims
Hope and Joy with David Larbi
Long Live
Tone Glow
Untitled 909
Deez Links
i-D
𝓇𝒶𝓌 & 𝒻𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁
Silver Bulletin
The Pragmatic Engineer
Thinking about...
American Style
BIG by Matt Stoller
Chartbook
Four Things
Body Type
Derrick G-Mail
Sam Harris
Vitally Melanie: The Body is Honest
Feeling! Magazine
Granted
offline crush
Don’t Skip The Dip!
Magasin
Many Such Cases
pmamtraveller
postcards by elle
Marcus on AI
Persuasion
sweater weather
Longevity Decoded
Pete Buttigieg’s Substack
picked from the post-it pile
The Bulwark
The Dopamine Dispatch
The Intrinsic Perspective
The Lot Bulletin
The Open Journal with Pamela Anderson
Your Brain on Money
as seen on
Erotics of Liberation
exhibits in new york
FRESH HELL Tina Brown’s Diary
milk and cookies
milk fed
Museguided
The Chris Hedges Report
Call Super’s ARPOZINE
Cassandra Unchained
Compositionally Inclined
surrealist covens
The Artist Economy
The Quiet Part
The Trend Report™
Ask Polly
default.blog
Embedded
John Paul Brammer
Make Me Good Soil
Slow Boring
The Hyphen by Emma Gannon
Unpopular Front
Welcome Magazine
ziwe news network
August’s Newsletter
Flow State
future/proof
How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse
Queer Archive Fever
Spaces and Places
The Drey Dossier
The Elif Life
