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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 days

LOS ANGELES / ORANGE COUNTY @UndertowMusic Show October 26, 2024 Tickets: Thank you as always, KD

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

5 months

15 years old today

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Kevin Devine

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2 years

@PFTompkins @ScottAukerman @ComedyBangBang :/

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

Today is the 11th anniversary of @BadBooksMusic II. To celebrate that crooked figure, we’re announcing II: Revisited, a comprehensive, from the foundation reimagining, available October 20th.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Just stopped for 25 seconds after the first line of “I was alive back then” to stare at a very chatty audience & as they quieted slightly, calmly said, “I’m not scared of you, I’m singing for love, for my child & my god, but there are some people here who’d like to hear it, so…”

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

@okayfineAndy I think it’s seasonal dryness - what’s been up man, how’s your daughter - my girlfriend’s pregnant too, I’m ‘bout to be a father - if I have a daughter, guess when I’ma call her? Ima name her Pyotr

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

20 years old. Next year, you can legally drink. (Maybe don’t) Still feels like a major pivot point, and the songs still make sense to me - gave birth to the Goddamn Band, touring as vocation, and sorta everything since… Thank you, that’s a long time, nice to be here

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 month

does anyone else feel permanently exhausted

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

4 months

19 years, insane

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

This doesn’t happen often but - One of my absolute favorite things is when I cover an Elliott Smith song at a show and an audience member isn’t already familiar with him and asks about it - because I realize I just passed along The Beatles to some unsuspecting person, pure joy

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Kevin Devine

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1 year

someone just drove by on a motorcycle blasting that system of a down song that goes, disorder/disorder, and fuck that song rules

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 months

I submitted this to the @nprmusic #TinyDesk contest. Fingers crossed. Would be a legit dream. cc: @allsongs @BobBoilen

Comment from @joshuamorris4154

promosm

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Devine

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1 year

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

4 months

Who cares, but: At 13 in utero defined for me what loud music should sound like Bracing beautiful ugly scary alive fun surprising honest how cool to then grow up with so many other great records he’d already made, would make Albini had a code, called bullshit instructive

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

19 years of make the clocks move seems impossible and yet

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

3 months

“The result is a dynamic in which the rich shell out top dollar to see major acts while working-class fans grow increasingly disillusioned with the music industry.” It’s almost as if … the same ubiquitous & worsening systemic failures apply to everything

Stereogum

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3 months

It's not just the Black Keys. Lots of big concert tours are selling poorly this year. Why? The curious case of the underselling arena tours:

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

14 days

sorry but who just *writes* “I won’t back down” at some point in life you inevitably hear it as if for the first time and want it etched on your tombstone and are moved to actual tears but its unbearable simplicity and economy and vulnerability just mindboggling

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Hateful and hurtful and plagiarizing stuff from my “dear friend” DEAD BOOKS

Shannon Passaro

@ShannonPassaro

1 year

@KevinDevineTwit last night at The Blue Room @okayfineAndy played a song for you 😂

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

And then the room went silent during the end of “brother’s blood” and it took effort to not walk back up to the mic and say, “i won.” I think it to stare back at hundreds of people & not blink, not lose your mind. Thank you for listening & for the opportunity to grow.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 months

anyone else having trouble sleeping because they’ve internalized that their goals/ambitions/achievements aren’t the right kind or enough because they’re inadequate with respect to perpetual material and status escalation? Jk it’s probably daylight savings

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

happy 10 year @BadBooksMusic II

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

5 months

. @SoCorporateBand 🧐

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Miracle of 86, Warped Tour 2001, Randall’s Island, NY, Soft Skull Press DIY “Stage,” plywood & a party tent. It was the most punk place there. I am wearing a @pedrothelion shirt. We did Boston, NY, Philly in my dad’s 1998 Civic. Thanks @danozzi

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

happy sweet 16, Put Your Ghost To Rest

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

Same as it ever was. @BadBooksMusic II: Revisited is out today! Please go enjoy it. We loved making it.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Happy 1st birthday, young lady

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

happy 9th birthday (!!), Bubblegum & Bulldozer

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Kevin Devine

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 months

Shout out to the young man outside Best Buy who just told me I look like the skinny Thor

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

3 months

Kindly tell 15-year-old KD, purchasing this cassette at a mall en route to Ocean City, MD on vacation with his family, that in 29 years he’ll be doing these shows in Denver, Portland & Seattle. I suspect he won’t believe you. Tix: Thank you, @sdreband

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

For no particular organizational reason, October is very release-heavy month for KD Enterprises. 10/7/03 - Clocks 10/9/12 - Bad Books II 10/14/13 - Bulldozer/Bubblegum 10/17/06 - Ghost 10/19/10 - Bad Books I 10/21/16 - Instigator & MOT/WAWWAB/BB2II Thank you, is all

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

This is not a fishing expedition, but just to say: I listened to the first three songs on NRSNW today on a short drive for the first time in 6 months and I am really proud of the record we made and so grateful to Bracco & Damon & Strand & Schnapf & Jesse C & everyone who made it.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

*I think it thickens your skin & stretches you out to stare back … Sorry, typo

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

3 months

who cares but just expressing bewildered gratitude at how much I still genuinely love doing these livestreams and the patreon in general, it’s made me a more supple steward of my own catalogue and prompted a kind of music school learning so many covers and thank you is all

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

crazy but true: happy 6th birthday, Instigator

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

runner by alex g for … four days straight now endlessly looping “when I think of people I look up to,” etc

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 month

I just heard myself singing “I figured you out” in the middle of a kind of uncomfortable social situation and it made me realize how many times in my life I’ve unconsciously turned to Elliott’s songs as a kind of invisible friend, pretty cool, endlessly thankful I found them

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

a friend sent me the video of the chili peppers covering smells like teen spirit and it made me wonder if anything has ever been as ubiquitously popular and totally perversely misunderstood as nirvana

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

I always feel funny amplifying articles about me (honestly, I feel funny reading them, and I don’t always), but I really respect and trust Matt, and was moved by how comprehensive this was & by the comments of my peers. I weirdly felt like I understood it all a little more. Xo.

matt mitchell

@yogurttowne

2 years

Last month, I traveled to NYC to watch @KevinDevineTwit celebrate the 20th anniversary of his career at Baby’s All Right. But that story became much more than a concert piece. Read my profile on Kevin:

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

For the family & friends of Ryan Thoresen Carson

Ryan Thoresen Carson, organized by Tammie Marie David

Hi everyone. We are a collective of Ryan's close friends, reeling from a bruta… Tammie Marie David needs your support for Ryan Thoresen Carson

www.gofundme.com

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 months

. @kennyobrienodo1 forever

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

8 months

Cyclical acknowledgement of how good “the fleecing” is I can’t say it like I sing it I can’t sing it like I think it I can’t think it like I feel it And I don’t feel a thing And those melodies A tall tree in a singularly excellent forest @pedrothelion @davidbazan

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

8 months

I was walking from my apartment to my daughter & her mom yesterday to walk to school; at 7:52 AM, someone was sitting in their car, blasting Sinead’s version of “all apologies,” I fully stopped & wept on the street; “things are moving, this is the way,” my friend says, amen

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

insane anniversary month continues Happy 12th, @BadBooksMusic 1

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Elliott Smith, “Ballad Of Big Nothing” (Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes, full of smoldering anger” is worthy of Flannery O’Connor, or Raymond Carver - except they didn’t have those chords)

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

4 months

HOLY SHIT THANK GOD

The A.V. Club

@TheAVClub

4 months

Martin Scorsese's perfume ad with Timothée Chalamet is finally (actually!) here

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

I am fumbling/imperfect/know nothing I try to be pro-people & so, justice/peace/progress/solidarity And anti-Jewish rhetoric/hate/threats/violence/etc. have no place in any real pro-people movement, as they are not about justice or peace or progress or solidarity Obviously

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

should I tweet the results of my urinalysis or just summarize

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

I don’t know if we’ll ever see Kenny again, but I’ll always think of him today.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

9 months

NYC // @lprnyc // 2.16.24 KD&GDB: Bulldozer & Bubblegum x 10 Years Both records, in full, one night only, featuring first-ever performances of multiple songs from each. With special guests @MANSIONS !!! Onsale tomorrow, Wednesday 12/6, 12pm EST. Art: @NowItsTooLoud

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Super devastated to report I tested positive for Covid (2x) this morning after feeling symptoms. As a result, we have to cancel the remaining shows on this west coast run. Refunds are available at point of purchase. This supremely sucks. We hope to see you all soon. Thank you.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

3 months

VERY stoked to announce some dates this October supporting our friends @balanceandcomp (with @millymusicgroup )! Tickets onsale Friday, May 31 at 10:00am local. Thank you!

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Kevin Devine

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2 years

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

5 months

Very excited to join @SoCorporateBand for three shows this September! 9/12 Nashville, TN @theryman 9/13 Atlanta, GA @thetabatl 9/14 Orlando, FL @HardRockOrlando Tickets at . See you there!

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

And things find people and people find things and thank you to everyone who finds or has been found by ours xo

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

A note on this weekend’s shows! Short version: These are “evening with KD” style, no openers, 8pm set times, 45 songs over two nights, six core repeats, the rest exclusive to each show, etc etc Hope to see you AND hope to see whoever we don’t this spring on the Clocks tour! Xo

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

“Runner” by @SANDYalexg

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

(1/2) Make The Clocks Worse, presented by @brooklynvegan : This spring, I’ll celebrate 20 years of Make The Clocks Move, performing it in full on tour with @mattpryorsongs , doing the same with New Amsterdams’ Worse For The Wear. Fan club presale is live!:

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

“I miss the comfort in being sad” No doubtie

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Maybe uncool and embarrassing to say, part of me wishes is had been more “impactful” (whatever that means) upon release, but I have no control over that (effort not results) & am grateful for the impact it HAS had & it doesn’t at all diminish how I feel about the thing itself.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

7 months

Bubblegum / Bulldozer 10 Year Anniversary TOMORROW @lprnyc

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

On 20 years of Make The Clocks Move ♥️

keep it goin zac

@gr8whitebison

11 months

For @GetAlternative I reflected on 20 years of Make the Clocks Move—and I had the great pleasure of speaking to @KevinDevineTwit about the album

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

I just walked behind a small group of people on Manhattan’s upper east side and sang softly at them, “you will never have potions I have”

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

6 months

Happy birthday 💐 You’ll always be my second favorite March 25 birthday, by an impossible margin, but I know you understand, and I do love you very much. @NowItsTooLoud @anhorse DC @ikeStrand @zzarrillo @3crown #RobSchnapf #ValerieHegarty

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

ever feel existentially lonely and like a god tier herb Nah me neither

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Very excited to join @intoitoverit for some shows this autumn celebrating the 10th anniversary of their album Intersections. (With @queenofjeansPHL too!) Presale live NOW; general onsale Friday 7/14 at 12pm local.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Thank you, as always. Love, Kev

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

“Wolf’s Mouth,” from Make The Clocks Move. Come see us perform the entire record for its 20th anniversary this March & May, alongside The New Amsterdams doing the same for Worse For The Wear. Tickets:

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Another big Grammy night for kev sorry not sorry I can’t miss

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Sad news about our UK/EU fall tour - thank you for your support - refunds available at point of purchase ♥️

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

gdb

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Anything less than the best is a felony

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

28 days

#seriousdiscourse

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

5 months

A pretty cool thing: I’ll be supporting @_GuidedByVoices (!) at @HigherGround in Burlington, VT Friday, August 9th. (!!!) Tickets onsale Friday, April 19th at 10am EST.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 months

Talking to Bots

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

. @BadBooksMusic is finally on Bandcamp! Right now you can enjoy the anniversary edition of our debut…more to come.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

“Oh, here’s a big useful bag!” Something I just said to myself

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

10 months

YO! We’re making up the West Coast Make The Clocks Move 20th anniversary shows we had to cancel due to Covid earlier this year! We’ll be back 2/29-3/7/24 with our homie & once and future tourmate @MANSIONS . All shows onsale tmrw, Wed 11/15, 12pm PST.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

YES YES YES AUGUST @TheFrontBottoms Local Presale: Thursday, April 27 @ 10am local General On-Sale: Friday, April 28 @ 10am local

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Legit thrilled to be playing @TheFrontBottoms record release show for “You Are Who You Hang Out With” at the legendary @RedRocksCO in Morrison, Colorado (with @SayAnythingMuz )! Tickets available now at

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Thanks for including Make The Clocks Move, @brooklynvegan !

BrooklynVegan

@brooklynvegan

2 years

30 classic emo & post-hardcore albums turning 20 this year

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

St Vitus! Tonight! 6:30pm doors! 8pm KD! Sold out, but some tix circulating on social media! Beware of bots!

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

10 months

I finally properly learned “memory lane” today and can confirm e. smith is still Eternal Music School/An Abjectly Insane Guitarist And Composer

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

@julienrbaker This is very good, Julien

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

3 months

Definitely not surreptitiously crying in the sold out 3:15 inside out 2 at the alpine in bay ridge (I’m with my child)

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

for those who celebrate

11-17 (Little Videos Session), by Kevin Devine

from the album BTC&C (Deluxe Disc)

devinylrecordsny.bandcamp.com

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

coffee shop ruling linkin park Jay z album I forgot existed - mornin’

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

Jesus this tour with @nadasurf is going well

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

@pedrothelion The first time I ever spoke to David, I was 20-21, at Bowery Ballroom, shitfaced, at his merch table, and I told him that the chorus to “the bells” made me think of my brother Michael singing to my dad, AND THEN COLLAPSED WEEPING INTO HIS ARMS. (Cont.)

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

1 year

Everyone can see what's going on They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable Not because what I said was wrong Whatever it may bring I will live by my own policies I will sleep with a clear conscience I will sleep in peace

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

I did a Patreon livestream last night. My manager Zack chose 20 songs, mine/other people’s, asked the patrons to vote on them. He then sent me 15 numbers, which I cut up, put in a hat, pulled in real time, performed. This was the 2nd-to-last number.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 months

I do not care what his IQ is, how many words he knows, what his achievements are, or where he went to school. Just a catastrophic level of idiocy and contempt God tier herb

Maggie Serota

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2 months

No one: Not a single blessed soul: Aaron Sorkin:

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

ALL HANDS ON DECK: Given our being forced to cancel the balance of our west coast shows this week due to Covid, we’re hosting a merch sale in the online shop to try and help offset the impact and free me from the truck stop shower I live in now. THANK!

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

7 months

God of better nature God of understanding God of working conscience Help me stick the landing God of take it easy God of slow and simple Keep me in my body Evaporate my ego

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

11 months

Over 2 million Palestinian people are trapped in Gaza. TAKE ACTION NOW: Call Congress. Tell them to support the #CeasefireNOW resolution for an immediate ceasefire. Thank you.

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

9 months

@FranziaMom A strong case can be made for either/or, although I also think a strong case could be made for literally any one of his records, depending on taste/aesthetic preference

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

something I just said to myself while returning grapes to fridge: I’m king grimy hands You’re just a baby And everyone I know Likes to eat real gravy night!

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Kevin Devine

@KevinDevineTwit

2 years

. @nadasurf Forever: true blue church of song exemplars, operate from and steer towards a rooted, strong positivity at all times, and so funny and warm - thank you Matthew, Ira, Daniel, Louie, Ian, Mick, Sarah, Eve, Andy, Hannah, Dean, and Mark, and all of you - until next time 🐯

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