Simon Reynolds

Quick Facts

Full Name	Simon Reynolds
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1963(1963-06-19)
Age	61
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Simon Reynolds Biography

Simon Reynolds is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 19, 1963 in London, England, United Kingdom. Reynolds was born in London in 1963. He was raised in Berkhamsted. Influenced by his younger brother Tim Reynolds, he started to get attracted to rock and particularly punk around 1978. In the 1980s, he was a student at Brasenose College, Oxford. After graduatingin 1984, he founded the Oxford-based music journal Monitor along with his fellow students and the future Melody Maker colleagues Paul Oldfield and David Stubbs along with Hilary Little and Chris Scott.

In this period Reynolds also came up with concepts like “post-rock”, using the concept first in an Melody Maker 1993 article on Insides and later in a more refined version in a thinkpiece from May 1994 in The Wire and in a review of Bark Psychosis’ album Hex which was published on March 24, 1994’s issue of Mojo magazine. In the latter half of 1994 Reynolds relocated to East Village in Manhattan. In 1995, along with the wife of his, Joy Press, Reynolds co- wrote The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock ‘n’Roll, which is a critique of gender and rock. In 1998, Reynolds was promoted to the position of senior editor for Spin magazine in the US. In 1999 Reynolds was back as a freelancer.

In 2005, Reynolds released Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, a history of the post-punk era. In 2007, Reynolds published Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip Hop in the UK, a collection of his writing themed around the relationship between white bohemian rock and black street music. In 2008, an updated edition of Energy Flash was published, with new chapters on the decade of dance music following the appearance of the first edition. In 2009, a companion volume to Rip It Up and Start Again was published, Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews, containing interview transcripts and new essays.

Reynolds has voted in a number of year-end critics’ polls, most often for The Wire’ s Rewind and for The Village Voice’ s Pazz & Jop. Since 2011, when The Wire renamed its year-end poll from Records of the Year to Releases of the Year, Reynolds has cast several votes for songs rather than album-length releases. Reynold’s full voting ballots and year-end commentaries for a variety of magazines, going back to the late 1980s, can be found at Reynolds’s Faves/Unfaves blog.

In the year 1990, Reynolds left the staff of Melody Maker (although he would continue contributing to the magazine until the year 1996) and began working as freelance, splitting the time in London as well as New York. In the 1990s, he began to be involved in the world of rave and electronic dance music specifically in the UK and then began writing about the growth of what he later referred to as the “hardcore continuum” along with its associated culture, such as pirate radio. A large portion of his writing came out as Energy Flash: a Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture (1998) A history of the techno, house, hardcore and later the rave genres, such as gabber and jungle music. The book was released the very year, in America in a shortened form and was titled Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture.

Simon Reynolds Net Worth

Simon Reynolds is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Reynolds 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is a English journalist and author who began his career as a staff member of Melody Maker in the mid-1980s He has since moved on to freelance and write numerous full-length works on pop culture and music including historical volumes about the glam and rave scene and post-punk to important works like Retromania Pop Culture’s Recurring Addiction to its own The Past (2011). The author has written for Spin, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Wire, Pitchfork among others.

The year 1986 saw Reynolds was hired by Melody Maker, where his writing was characterized by his enthusiasm for the wave of neo-psychedelic and hip hop artists who emerged during the mid-1980s (including A.R. Kane, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Throwing Muses and The Young Gods). The period was when Reynolds as well as Melody Maker and Melody Maker colleagues set themselves against what they called the traditional humanism of the indie rock era of the 1980s pop, soul, and soul music, and the uninspiring style and method of most music critics. Some of the music from the late Eighties period would eventually be the collection remixed Blissed Out The Raptures of Rock released in 1990.

Reynolds’ writing has blended cultural criticism with music journalism. He has written extensively on gender, class, race, and sexuality in relation to music and culture. Early in his career, Reynolds often made use of critical theory and philosophy in his analysis of music, deriving particular influence from thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. He has on occasion used the Marxist concepts of commodity fetishism and false consciousness to describe attitudes prevalent in hip hop music. In discussing the relationship between class and music, Reynolds coined the term liminal class, defined as the upper- working class and lower-middle-class, a group he credits with “a lot of music energy”. Reynolds has also written about drug culture and its relationship to various musical developments and movements. In the 2000s, in tandem with fellow critic and blogger Mark Fisher, Reynolds made use of Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology to describe a strain of music and popular art preoccupied with the disjointed temporality and “lost futures” of contemporary culture.

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