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Eric Renner Brown
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A new Cardi B era is upon us – and @billboard.com's latest cover is an unmissable, wide-ranging interview with ever-colorful hip-hop star www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...
Billboard cover featuring Cardi B with the cover line "CARDI B MAKES HER MOVE"
September 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Wednesday has a new album out next month, and it's one of their best. Talked to 'em about it for @billboard.com's fall preview www.billboard.com/music/rock/w...
August 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Jerry's Travis Bean guitar really getting around this weekend
August 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In a just world, it's Fallon who would've been canceled, not Colbert
Via Twitter: @jimmyfallon: It's a Jorts Summer!! And it's also Will Ferrell's birthday. You know what has to be done. [video of Fallon dancing in jorts]
July 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Was curious what the Goose subreddit thought of my Goose article
Reddit comment from u/nobedforbeatlegeorge: I did not hate this article and I kind of expected to haha Borat "Great Success" meme
June 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I've never cared much for Reputation, but even so, @joncaramanica.bsky.social's piece about the Reputation Taylor's Version that wasn't meant to be is so great – and has some of the best succinct observations about the broader TV project that I've read www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a...
New York Times excerpt: Taylor’s Versions have been far more successful as a marketing project than as a creative endeavor (apart from the release of vault tracks, previously unheard songs from each period). Initially, it was an intriguing exercise to forensically analyze the new versions for differences from the originals, some crisp and deliberate, others the inevitable result of imprecise photocopying. But Swift’s gifts are in her unvarnished capturing of the now; creating replicas has felt like a cruel joke, and an insult to the originals. The prior albums couldn’t be improved upon either — not because they’re perfect, but because they are the art that was true to the moment in which they were released.
June 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Otter's attempts at "Bon Iver"
Bomb a bear's Bonavita
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Just discovered a "custom-made social-sandwiching experience" is moving in a block away from my office and, you know, I'm really good with just a deli
Sandwiches Your Way! Welcome to Barney Brown, a custom-made social-sandwiching experience. Get started by building your own sandwich in just 5 easy steps.
May 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Bizarre
Pitchfork news article from 5/5/2025: Vinyl Me, Please Customers Face Uncertainty as Company Enters Liquidation The Denver-based record club has assigned its assets to a third party, which will handle refund claims Email received 5/6/2025: SUBJECT: Is this the end? FROM: VMP <info@vinylmeplease.com> Hi Eric, We haven't seen you around lately! Here at VMP, we want to respect your inbox and only send emails that you want to receive. If you're not receiving the content you expected, or we've been coming on a little strong, feel free to change your subscription preferences. If you do decide to go...we'll really miss you! And don't forget, if you unsubscribe you can always sign up again on our website. Thanks and we hope to see you again soon! - The VMP Team
May 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Oh no what will the betting public do now
Headline: Lakers' early NBA playoffs exit a blow to betting public
May 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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????
Beyoncé setlist for 4/28/25 at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA, USA Act II: [cassette tape symbol] You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money but I Know What He Really Loves You for It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (Death Grips song)
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Pretty embarrassing snub of Phish here by the Rock Hall, after they won the fan vote too (still, great news about OutKast, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes)
April 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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At the Giants game against the Brewers and the between-innings game is whether or not things are cheeses or Wisconsin cities
April 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Took my dad to his first Phish show last night and it was a total heater
SETLIST: PHISH, WEDNESDAY 04/23/2025 BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDITORIUM San Francisco, CA SET 1: Simple -> Punch You in the Eye > Gumbo > Reba, The Well > David Bowie, Character Zero SET 2: Sample in a Jar > Tweezer > Lonely Trip, Crosseyed and Painless > Pillow Jets, You Enjoy Myself ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea, First Tube Gumbo contained Manteca teases from Page and Tweezer teases from Trey. Trey teased Manteca in Tweezer.
April 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I gotta get off TikTok
On TikTok: "I think one of my most meaningless flexes is that I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens since 2015 at the ripe age of 15. Because my freshman English teacher played Carrie & Lowell before first period, and I was one of those insufferable kids who liked to hang out with their English teacher too much. But it's okay because ten years later, my music taste is better because of it."
April 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Pitchfork has given out 8 BNMs in the last two and a half weeks but drew the line at bumping up Bon Iver's best album in more than a decade by a couple tenths of a point
Pitchfork's 8.1 non-BNM review of Bon Iver's SABLE, fABLE
April 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I would be interested to see Pitchfork apply "but there are so many ideas, so much life packed into every second, that it’s hard not to be bowled over by the sheer force of will" to Phish
From Pitchfork: "If that sounds exhausting, that’s because it is. This is the album equivalent of a YouTube party where everyone plays their favorite tracks for 35 seconds at a time and screams over them and sniffs a lot. The voiceovers get tiresome, and sometimes you wish a track would last longer than a minute. But there are so many ideas, so much life packed into every second, that it’s hard not to be bowled over by the sheer force of will. You will listen to these next 15 seconds of dentist-drill dubstep, and you will enjoy it."
April 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Just not hearing what so many people seem to be hearing in the new Skrillex
Pitchfork's 8.0 review of Skrillex's F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Did curly fries write this
@nytcooking: "Does Anyone Actually Like Steak Fries?"
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I feel like the lack of glamour is somewhat central to The Wall
Miley Cyrus Announces New Album Something Beautiful: The pop musician worked with Shawn Everett on an album that she’s said was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall Cyrus’ new album will follow 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, which housed the hit song “Flowers.” Cyrus has said that Something Beautiful was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall. “My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture,” she told Izzy Grinspan for Harper’s Bazaar.
March 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Forest Hills Stadium is a jewel of New York's music scene – there's nothing like seeing a show there on a beautiful summer night – and I hope these locals come around. (Also I really wanna see Phish there in July) nypost.com/2025/03/23/u...
New York Post (3/23/25): Forest Hills Stadium told no concerts this summer as fight over noise with fed-up neighbors hits boiling point
March 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Bernie's fatal flaw – especially when he had to go up against Biden in 2020, but even now – has always been that he simply will not speak ill of US senators he served or serves with
@kaitlancollins: Sen. Bernie Sanders: “I know, everyone's beating up on Chuck [Schumer] and I strongly disagree with him. Strongly. No one is in the caucus more critical of Schumer than I am. But it's not Schumer…it’s not the caucus. It’s the Democratic Party.”
March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Remember when tons of people were declaring that Radiohead was done because The Smile did three albums and some touring
@residentadvisor: Are @radiohead gearing up for a tour? The band's management donated tickets to a "Radiohead concert of your choice" in a recent auction. A source has also confirmed to RA that a run of European residencies have been lined up. Find out more.
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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As I was saying
Billboard Pro (3/17/2025): Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Tour Sells 94% of Ticket Inventory, Plus a New Date Is Added
March 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ok, Voter 1 is just sorta a troll I think. Oasis are "turds in the punch bowl of rock and roll" who allegedly weren't influential
Voter 1: Oasis has a brand to protect. They are the turds in the punch bowl of rock and roll. They have to act like they’re above it all and don’t give a shit, though Liam said he would show up if they got inducted. I won’t vote for them. I have a hard time seeing the influence. I suspect a lot of the people voting for them are ten years younger than me who remember the ’90s a little more fondly than I do.
March 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM