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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 3h

There’s a good chance he’d go crazy for the Stray Cats.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 3h

All his solo work has a very strong early rock’n’roll undercurrent. It could sometimes be disguised by the production but it’s always there.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review Power to the People, a lavish and exhaustive box set that documents John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s radical Sometime in New York City era that just happens to excise the album’s lead single. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

John Lennon / Yoko Ono / Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band / Elephant’s Memory: Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection)

Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 17h

And thank you my friend.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18h

Free John Sinclair!
Release TEN FOR TWO!

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Don't know why it fascinates me so much that when both John and Paul had done everything and could do anything, they both decided that there was nothing better to do than follow their wives into some kind of wild wilderness.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review Power to the People, a lavish and exhaustive box set that documents John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s radical Sometime in New York City era that just happens to excise the album’s lead single. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

John Lennon / Yoko Ono / Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band / Elephant’s Memory: Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection)

Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.

pitchfork.com

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much. It’sgrown on me over the years and I do like how this set brings out the rock’n’roll thread that ties it all together.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much, that’s the highest praise I could receive.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Correction passed along.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review Power to the People, a lavish and exhaustive box set that documents John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s radical Sometime in New York City era that just happens to excise the album’s lead single. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

John Lennon / Yoko Ono / Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band / Elephant’s Memory: Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection)

Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.

pitchfork.com

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 1d

just heard that annye anderson, robert johnson's stepsister, died earlier this year. she published the mindbending memoir "brother robert" in 2021. thechitlincircuit.substack.com/p/rest-mrs-a...

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 2d

Farewell to John Lodge, bassist and vocalist for the Moody Blues. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82

Musician died peacefully surrounded by sounds of Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, family say

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

Easily part of the reason why I found the Taylor rollout exhausting (and as someone who wrote something this week, guilty as charged). By contrast, I think @sterlewine.bsky.social wrote about the Billy Joel doc weeks after it came out and it was one of my favorite things on it

Jeff Giles @jefito.com · 2d

100 percent. The editorial culture based around “winning the search” has conditioned us to believe that any take arriving more than 24 hours after the event isn’t worth reading. It’s insane and bad for us overall.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

look no offense to this person specifically but i do think ‘are we still talking about this’ as a response to an essay about something from a couple weeks ago is pretty silly. we should expect thoughtful writing to take time

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 2d

The Fiery Furnaces reissue their madcap masterpiece Blueberry Boat today, so this week in the stübermania newsletter, I dust off my 2004 chat with Matthew Friedberger about making music that sounds like The Who meets Chuck E. Cheese: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

A conversation with Matthew Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces from 2004

As the duo reissues its madcap masterpiece, Blueberry Boat, this week, let's revisit my pre-release chat with its musical architect about his influences, from The Who to Chuck E. Cheese to his grandma

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

An especially silly example, but I see "[much-celebrated legend] is underrated/overlooked" WAY too much these days. IDK if you're young, or hang with the wrong people, or are just desperate for an angle, but this is a very boring (as well as inaccurate) way to discuss someone.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 2d

I have very fond memories of the live WTF we attended together during SXSW years ago.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 2d

Ned’s sentiments mirror mine.

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 2d

As I’ve noted via various reposts on here, Kaleb Horton has a memorial today down in SoCal; I regret for various reasons I could not attend. I think of him today, once more. This piece from earlier this year gained much attention after he died. It’s worth your time. Best to all attending.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

My latest newsletter: reviews of new albums by Taylor Swift, Jeff Tweedy, Robert Plant. Plus, Saint Etienne says farewell, Ronnie Wood gets his own Anthology, Los Straitjackets break away from Nick Lowe, checking in on Sloan.

In Review: Taylor Swift, Jeff Tweedy, Robert Plant

Plus: Saint Etienne says farewell, Ronnie Wood gets his own Anthology, Los Straitjackets break away from Nick Lowe, checking in on Sloan.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 3d

Goddess in the Doorway came out in 2001, just sayin'

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

ROLLING STONE RANKS THE 250 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 21st CENTURY SO FAR 🚨

The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

The guy is 82, he cut his signature song 40+ years ago.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

Very true. Those guys had a very idiosyncratic dynamic.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

Ocasek may have had the ego to separate himself from the group in any case but Roberts certainly accelerated the division.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

That could be. With the Cars and the Heartbreakers, he seemed intent on making one person an obvious star which misread the dynamics in both groups (the Heartbreakers were lucky that Campbell was fine being a lieutenant.)

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

One of my main takeaways from The Cars bio and the Mike Campbell memoir is that Elliot Roberts was an absolutely terrible manager for a rock’n’roll band.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 4d

Agree with this completely, it’s a terrific book.

JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

The Janovitz Cars book really raises the bar on music bios. This is how you do a meat & potatoes, context-rich, loving but nonhagiographic deep dive into a band’s history. Funny, idiosyncratic, w a strong sense that it was written/researched by a *musician* while also accessible to a gen audience.

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