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Eric Renner Brown

3 months

I went to @phish 's four-night @SphereVegas run, took a breather to process (and recover from) the experience, and gathered my thoughts for @billboard about why it was such an impressive concert feat

How Phish Mastered Sphere With Its Weird, Wonderful Four-Show Residency

Phish mastered Sphere during its four-show residency at the cutting-edge Las Vegas venue.

www.billboard.com

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

Rapidly approaching the Elon/Dril singularity

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4 years

Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled with the conservative majority in this 7-2 decision

SCOTUSblog

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#SCOTUS reverses decision by 4th Circuit, upholds permit for $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will tunnel under Appalachian Trail

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5 years

NYT really asking Bernie the important questions

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4 years

This country is so unprepared for what is about to happen, psychologically, logistically, all of it

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

The Beatles and their fan army are rendering the pop charts useless

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3 years

BTS and their fan army are rendering the pop charts useless

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2 months

1989 is not better than any of these albums, much less all of them

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 months

Midnights beating SOS for Album of the Year wouldn't be as depressing if Harry's House hadn't beat Renaissance & 25 hadn't beat Lemonade & 1989 hadn't beat TPAB & Morning Phase hadn't beat Beyoncé & Random Access Memories hadn't beat Good Kid & Babel hadn't beat Channel Orange &

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

In 2019, I wrote about BTS's live juggernaut for Pollstar. Forget competing with Olivia Rodrigo or Mars/.Paak – BTS's real business peers are U2, The Stones, Taylor Swift. That's why this sort of tut-tutting about hOw ThEy ToPpEd ThE cHaRtS is so tiresome

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4 years

Just give us healthcare

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4 years

SCOOP: The Biden-Harris campaign is rolling out official yard signs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons today. It's part of the campaign's broader initiative to meet voters where they are online.

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 years

For @Pollstar 's latest cover, I dived into the world of @BTS_twt , the K-pop group's unprecedented international touring success, and the undying devotion of @BTS_ARMY and @USBTSARMY .

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

When you gotta play 'Cut Your Hair' for the 27th time in five weeks

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

4 years

Mainly just feeling total sadness, at everyone who is going to die, have their health permanently impacted, be financially ruined, and total hopelessness, at the widespread refusal to engage with science and America's unflinching commitment to capitalism at any cost

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

The Hot 100's methodology is super flawed, especially since it started integrating streaming plays. But it's interesting, to put it politely, that chart-toppers by other artists – some of which deploy similar chart-gaming machinations – don't garner this type of press

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Eric Renner Brown

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Dylan tour tweets are like "He covered 'Old McDonald Had A Farm' as a dirge. It was 37 beats per minute. Hadn't done that one in 19 years – never thought I'd see the day. He looked like he wanted to bludgeon his bassist. An eternal mischief maker. I would die for this man"

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 years

I for one wants a president who splits time between the gym and gaming on their phone, but can never drown out the sorrow of the true love who broke their heart long ago

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

@danozzi Nothing says boss like cultivating a personality cult around being a liberal to your core and then ruling to *checks notes* literally allow a pipeline to tunnel under the Appalachian Trail!

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 months

The @tombreihan Tortured Poets review is as brilliant as everyone is saying

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 months

It is so cruel to journalists – whose key to getting new work is the quality of their old work – to delete publication archives

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

6 years

I see Kanye's just dropped the pretense of signing in and out of the @dril account at this point

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

6 days

Who's gonna find Kamala's Discogs

🥥🌴 Graubart 🥥🌴

@graubart

1 year

Nice to know that Kamala buys vinyl. (And is a jazz fan). I think Joe’s more of an 8-track guy.

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

Uncanny

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2 years

???

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 years

New 'King's Dead' video proves yet again that, on top of everything else, Kendrick Lamar is the defining visual musician of his generation

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

@kingkroba @notnotnuanced Hold up

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

6 years

A little on the nose to honor a dead Republican by shutting down a government agency

NBC4 Washington

@nbcwashington

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Out of respect for the 41st president of the United States, @usps will suspend regular mail deliveries on Wednesday, Dec. 5

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

Also, as @perpetua points out, the specific machination being criticized here was *fans paying for the single*

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@perpetua

3 years

I have close to zero respect for the charts as an accurate measure of popularity and success given all the ways things can be gamed, but I do think "actually this isn't legit because fans PAID FOR THE SINGLE" to be a bizarro world argument

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

It finally happened: @PostMalone sat in with @BillyStrings last night (on 'Cocaine Blues' no less!)

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

4 years

Every Phish song is like -awesome riff -"Brie cheese / It's the bee's knees / Watch out, I'm gonna sneeze!" -Trey and audience sneeze in unison -20 minutes of insane jamming -return of awesome riff -Trey and audience sneeze in unison to end the song

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Eric Renner Brown

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28 days

Across venues big and small, artists loud and quiet, music of all genres, it's disappointing just how pervasive talking at concerts has gotten. Almost every show I go to now, regardless of where I am in the venue, there's chatting for at least some of the set

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Eric Renner Brown

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1 year

Phish: *plays any song* Phish fan: Wow. Holy shit. I literally can't believe they're playing this song. This is nuts

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

Anyway, I hope the Applebee's onion rings were worth it

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 months

The Grateful Dead, after an uninterrupted hour of jazzy psych-rock experimentation: Hell yeah... let's do some Chuck Berry now

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 years

This just in: In February, @NICKIMINAJ will speak at @Pollstar 's annual conference

Pollstar Live! To Feature Keynote Conversation With Nicki Minaj And Irving Azoff - Pollstar News

Pollstar Live! has been the concert industry's premier forum for discussion and networking for decades, and 2020 will continue this tradition with a keynote conversation between famed artist manager...

news.pollstar.com

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Eric Renner Brown

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11 months

I don't like all these albums but I feel profoundly sorry for someone who doesn't like any of them

TierMaker

@TierMaker

1 year

The 200 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years Tier List Community Ranking by Twitter users. Albums selected by Pitchfork. Disagreements? Unlikely, because this is the community consensus. But if you do have some, Create your own or remix this list here:

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

Saw Tortoise for the first time last night. Everyone should see Tortoise

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Eric Renner Brown

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7 years

Look what @chrislhayes tweeted a year ago today

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8 years

Occasional reminder that the electoral college is ridiculous and we should just make whoever gets the most votes the President.

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“I call her the Howard Stern of Beats Radio” - @irvingazoff on @NICKIMINAJ , who just landed onstage at #pollstarlive2020

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4 years

"There’s something beautiful about looking at a room full of people screaming something really dark." Interviewed @phoebe_bridgers for @Pollstar

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2 months

The next step of Vampire Weekend dipping its toes into the jam world should be its fans learning jam band setlist notation

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6 months

Usher was great but imagine Dead & Co doing Help > Slip > Frank for the Super Bowl halftime show

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 months

Said as an Alex G fan: There's more weirdness in Gene Ween's pinky toe than Alex G's complete discography

pickle darling

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the alex g news makes me wonder if we’re about to hit another moment like in the 90s when major labels are gonna throw a bunch of money at weirdos like the flaming lips and ween and primus again, especially when like alex g and duster are the big viral acts now

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1 year

Pitchfork not giving Dark Side of the Moon a perfect 10 for the Sunday Review is my villain origin story

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Eric Renner Brown

@ericrennerbrown

18 days

MJ Lenderman full album of Charli XCX covers called Brat Songs

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

Absolutely massive – AEG Presents announces vax-only (no neg test substitutions) policy implemented by October 1 for all patrons and staff. Until then, vax or neg test required. Applicable in all states where legal. Immediately industry-leading standard.

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 months

The levels of Dylanology

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5 years

'Senator Sanders' classification of the dress as gold displayed a startling lack of understanding of the world around us. How could we endorse a candidate with such an alarming interpretation of such a divisive issue?'

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 months

CBS aired the most-viewed television broadcast in history on Sunday – and still initiated layoffs two days later. Never let anyone tell you these types of layoffs are due to a lack of profitability; they're due to a surplus of greed

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 months

The 'Spotify narrows listening habits' thing is always weird to me. I'm a voracious music consumer and use Spotify to access all sorts of niche stuff. Spotify certainly guides casual listeners to mainstream stuff – but so do the bestseller racks at the fronts of record stores

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Eric Renner Brown

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6 months

Got hit with this on a Pitchfork review for the first time this morning. If Conde ends up using this to institute a paywall... it's chilling to think what effect that will have on music discovery and for those trying to access 25 years of archival music writing

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4 months

It's funny how New Yorkers can argue about almost anything, music fans can argue about almost anything, and yet, New Yorker music fans pretty much universally agree the city's worst venue is Terminal 5

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@notusanymorebws

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“everyone has their fav venue” okay but everyone also has their ENEMY venue. im talking the fucking trenches. the venue where you walked out after a gig and SWORE you’d never go back (you definitely did go back). the venue that made you question your entire concert-going career

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 months

@zzzzaaaacccchhh And then if that star did the exact same thing again the following year...

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

'Historians are gonna look back at x and say y and z' is a pretty tired way of analyzing at current events, but, I mean...

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

Life update: Excited to share that today's my first day as Senior Editor, Features at @billboard !

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

Nicki says she's about to release new music, and Irving says she's eyeing launching a festival in Queens #pollstarlive2020

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

Yeah Yeah Yeahs comeback is great but when are we getting another TV On The Radio album

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

Let's see how the stans are receiving Pitchfork's measured 6.7 review of the new St. Vincent

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Eric Renner Brown

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3 years

Late musicians 'tweeting' about the recently deceased is just deeply unsettling to me

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Eric Renner Brown

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4 years

Couldn't script it better

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@ericrennerbrown lol this was the very next tweet in my feed

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Eric Renner Brown

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5 years

I'd listen to a Childish, Creator & Beck record

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Eric Renner Brown

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2 years

The funniest criticism of Mayer in Dead & Co is that he did it as a cash grab. His solo tours still make a killing. If he just wanted to make some extra dough... learning a band's huge catalog seems & putting himself under immense scrutiny is a pretty intense way to go about that

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4 years

No more 'Ready to Start,' no more 'We Used to Wait.' The Fame Monster is now 2011 Album of the Year. You always feel like there's just something *missing* between Neon Bible and Reflektor, and wonder why it took them the better part of a decade to come up with 'Porno'

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4 years

What would abolishing the suburbs even mean? How would you accomplish this goal if you wanted to?

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8 months

That's the good stuff

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6 years

Who at the NYT surveyed Nikki Haley's record and deemed her a 'moderate Republican'

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5 months

Feel like Deadheads should be a little more understanding of a musician who turns 84 in 10 days wanting to sit during a two-set, three-hour show

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2 years

In hindsight, it's not really surprising trouble found them

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4 years

@charles_kinbote Lighting it in the middle while me and a friend puff from either end like Lady and the Tramp

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5 years

For the record, the interview's ostensibly more substantive questions are also bad

Ryan Grim

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5 years

"Bipartisan deal-making," which Bernie Sanders is surprisingly good at, and symbolically introducing bills with a GOP cosponsor, which Sanders doesn't do, are completely different things. Not remotely the same. This is so embarrassing for the Times.

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6 months

Heaven is Hotline TNT covering Smashing Pumpkins' 'Quiet' with MJ Lenderman

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4 months

I'm a Deadhead and yet: Neil Young / Sonic Youth in a heartbeat

Matthew Perpetua

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4 months

If you could go back in time to attend ONE of these shows at Madison Square Garden in 1991, which would it be

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4 years

In a blow to Beto O'Rourke, Pete Buttigieg has been named ambassador to Matador Records

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7 years

lol you're crazy for this one Jay

Pitchfork

@pitchfork

7 years

Breaking grammar news: JAY-Z’s name has a new (old) look

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Eric Renner Brown

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8 months

Hearing reports that Travis Kelce is taking Taylor Swift to night 7 of Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows to celebrate her birthday tonight

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4 years

Wild how Bernie didn't win the nomination, much less the general, but is still probably going to have a more positive impact on the lives of everyday Americans in 2020 and 2021 than Biden, who did both those things

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5 years

Stuff like this from the paper of record is just staggering

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The NYT editorial board apparently lives in an economic universe where the concept of “exploitation” does not exist 🤯

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1 year

People don't realize this, but while Pitchfork grades all genres other than emo on a 10/10 scale, it grades emo on an 8.1 scale. For an emo album, a Pitchfork 8.1 means it's perfect

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4 years

Happy 45th to a very underrated Dylan

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1 year

Couldn't believe this as it was happening, definitely some of the best Mayer (or anyone really) I've ever seen

Christopher Hazard

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Dead and Company 7.8.2023 St Stephen #DeadandCompany #GratefulDead #johnmayer #TaylorSwift

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1 year

Rihanna has collaborated with so many iconic artists and yet I have a looming sense of dread that the guest she's gonna end up bringing out today is DJ Khaled

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3 years

@perpetua I did a cover story about them for Pollstar in 2019 and that was the moment it all crystallized for me, like... breaking stadium gross records set by Taylor Swift and U2. But sure, they have no fans, who listens to this stuff anyway!

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If you've watched an NFL game on @FOXSports recently, you've probably heard songs by the @GratefulDead and @phish – and maybe even @goosetheband , @umphreysmcgee , and @moeperiod too. For @billboard , connected with the heads at the network (🎨 @ryansnook )

How FOX Sports’ Resident Deadheads Brought Jam Bands To Big Games

FOX Sports' resident jam band fans frequently use songs by the Grateful Dead, Phish, Goose, moe., and more in NFL and MLB broadcasts.

www.billboard.com

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1 year

A podcast called Phil Lesh & Friends where Phil Lesh watches and discusses every episode of Friends

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1 month

Press shot for well-liked indie band returning from 14-year hiatus

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What on earth is going on with the perspective in this shot? It’s like the Hobbit/Gandalf scenes in Lord of the Rings.

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She's excited about the new one but says it'll be tough to top Boat Songs

Jake Sherman

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PELOSI on MJ

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4 years

Millennial journalists get fired all the time for scheduling a tweet wrong or just because their boss woke up on the wrong side of the bed, but Jeffrey Toobin jerks off on a New Yorker staff Zoom and his dismissal is some big mystery that needs unpacking

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'I love my fans. I could never stop doing that.' - Nicki on touring. Says she's 'excited to go back on the road' #pollstarlive2020

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Tired: wondering why Pavement has scored a massive hit a quarter-century later with a B-side of all things, complaining about the TikTokization of music and the charts, etc Wired: admitting it's pretty cool Pavement now has a gold record

PAVEMENT

@pavement_band

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PAVEMENT earned an @RIAA #Gold award!

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2 years

Bill Graham's introduction for the Grateful Dead concert on this day in 1974

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4 years

13 years of Graduation, a record oddly underrated in the Kanye canon, but one with some of his very best songs, simultaneously a culmination of one era and a preview of another. Few albums meant more to me as a teenager

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5 years

Vampire Weekend's Webster Hall merch an homage to the Grateful Dead's classic live album ONE FROM THE VAULT

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6 years

There are some hilarious zingers but whatever your opinion of GVF (and I think the record is marginally better than a 1.6), the piece has a great broader thesis about streaming, algorithm-driven listening, etc

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4 years

Jamaal Bowman wore a Wu-Tang mask to the polls. We have no choice but to stan

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3 years

The world is crumbling but at least we're getting a Weird Al biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe?

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4 years

Out today: MAP OF THE SOUL: 7, the new @BTS_twt album. I wrote about the international BTS phenomenon – and how it has manifested in the live space – in September

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1 year

I do not know a single Frank Ocean fan – and most people I know my age are Frank Ocean fans – who would object to him sitting in a chair with zero production and playing a full-length set

Evan Rytlewski

@Evanryt

1 year

"Frank Ocean injured his leg and is unable to deliver the acrobatic spectacle his fans expect" is some next level PR voodoo, though, just epic levels of nobody believes this anyway so say whatever

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1 year

Happy place: Bobby singing 'When I Paint My Masterpiece' at The Gorge at golden hour

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3 years

So many examples of lo-fi indie-rockers going polished pop, and just once I'd love to see a big polished pop star drop a scrappy lo-fi indie-rock record

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4 years

Irving: 'You announced your fuckin' retirement. What the fuck was that about? Who told you to announce your retirement?' Nicki: 'Once again, another time where I shouldn't have had social media on my phone!' #pollstarlive2020

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'You gave me an award...' - Irving 'Yeah. Cocksucker of the Year Award!' - Nicki 'Listen. I love it when artists care.' - Irving #pollstarlive2020

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Happy birthday to my favorite album

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