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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 months

Some news! So stoked to join the @roccitymag crew!

CITY

@roccitymag

5 months

Join us in welcoming the newest member of CITY! Rochester native @patrickhosken begins his role today.

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2 months

So, no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn't fit some executives' bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word

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sliding it up my sleeve and discreetly eating it while I pretend to sleep during a meeting illegally called during lunch

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what would make this hotdog perfect?

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Bronn bursting into Winterfell conveniently undetected like

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8 years

highlight of my day was finding out Seal prickishly annotated "Kiss From A Rose" for Genius

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2 years

I respect Louis Tomlinson's commitment to keep making Britpop

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5 years

big week for orange cats

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Patrick Hosken

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5 years

I for one am here for Louis Tomlinson's re-arrival as a Britpop superstar. This song even has a fade-out!

Louis Tomlinson - Kill My Mind (Official Lyric Video)

Louis Tomlinson - Kill My Mind (Official Lyric Video)Kill My Mind is out now. Get it here: http://smarturl.it/LT-KillMyMindAnimation by: https://www.instagra...

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

It may come as a shock to my followers but I believe that "Nightswimming" by R.E.M., in fact, absolutely rules

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Patrick Hosken

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9 years

Can't find the exact tweet but saw a Directioner post earlier that "no one loves One Direction more than Niall" and laughed but it's so true

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Patrick Hosken

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2 months

I got let go over a year ago. Why didn't I archive more of my stories? Between looking for new jobs, being a dad, living life, etc it simply never stayed at the top of the to-do list. That sucks, and I have myself to blame. But also, fuck that, man

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Patrick Hosken

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5 years

Published this @Louis_Tomlinson interview right as I left to go see his show at Rough Trade. He mentioned how he’s getting good at guitar, playing his Eric Clapton signature Martin. My man.

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1 year

3. Purple Wedding 2. Red Wedding 1. Connor’s Wedding

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1 year

succession dropping this type of episode and simply calling it “connor’s wedding” is such a flex

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Patrick Hosken

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5 years

I talked to @Louis_Tomlinson (again!) for @mtvnews about his new song/video "We Made It" but also about how much "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" rips

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

Louis Tomlinson told me he is very into Sam Fender, which, according to Steven's math here, means he is also into post-Springsteen expansive rock. I'd love to play him Japandroids.

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@Steven_Hyden

5 years

Haven’t seen much discussion about it — seems like a much bigger deal in the UK — but Sam Fender’s HYPERSONIC MISSLES is basically SAM’S TOWN + A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING = something people who follow this acct. would dig.

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Patrick Hosken

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2 months

A lot of people have pointed out the Wayback Machine (huge, thank you). And I also want to stress how much this is a huge loss not for just me (obviously) but for the dozens & dozens of hardworking people who built MTV News, who made it THE music news voice through the years

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Patrick Hosken

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2 years

Bill Hader is the only MF wearing a mask at the Emmys. As a person who has somehow made it this long without having gotten COVID, I have to respect it deeply

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

2 months

I wrote pieces on Dua Lipa, Mike Shinoda, Louis Tomlinson and Janelle Monae but also Westerman, Pinegrove, Nilüfer Yanya and many more smaller artists. You can't read them anymore. They don't exist. But I'm still proud of them

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 years

@ScottInterrante Loudest pop of the night was when Larry hugged at the very end.

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

Zach & Roger built a track that left plenty of space for Zayn's voice. It became 'Connexion,' one of the key songs on Nobody Is Listening. I talked to them about how they made a foundation that Zayn finished, for @mtvnews

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Patrick Hosken

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7 years

And then I arrived at my barber and am about to ask for "the Zayn"

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

"NFTs are the human capacity for visual expression as understood by the guy at the vape store. ... It’s as if the whole discipline of photography consisted of pictures of George Eastman with his shirt off holding a samurai sword."

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Patrick Hosken

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2 months

My experience is not unique. Corporate media is in a bad place. But it genuinely sucks that PR emails don't use MTV News pullquotes anymore. That freelancers have removed @mtvnews from their bios. I get it, and I've done it too. It's part of the deal. It's just hard

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Patrick Hosken

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7 years

Talked to @Louis_Tomlinson a few weeks back about how good Arctic Monkeys & Oasis are

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

Zayn's voice sounds really terrific here, as always, and the song itself is a lot more focused. It's good to hear him again!

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

Mike Birbiglia tweeting earnestly about Neutral Milk Hotel feels very vintage Twitter, before everything was hell

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5 years

Does anyone have any good stories about neutral milk hotel or their album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea? Because I love it but I know very little.

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

I have reached that unenviable milestone of “one year ago today, I saw my last concert before the pandemic.” Luckily it was Harry Styles wearing a dynamite yellow vest

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2 years

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Patrick Hosken

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1 year

Hi! This Friday, May 12 will be my last day at MTV News after eight years. Very open to writing/editing gigs, band bios, anything digital/social. Email is in bio!

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5 years

Louis bringing big MTV Unplugged vibes at Rough Trade

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2 years

@regularnathan @TitlesInMedia this one really goes

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Patrick Hosken

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2 years

So The Armed are just Slipknot for people who drink iced coffee instead of Mountain Dew Code Red, got it

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Patrick Hosken

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6 years

Harry Styles and Kacey Musgraves are duetting on Shania’s “You’re Still the One” and it is DELIGHTFUL

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Patrick Hosken

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1 year

📣 NEW GIG ALERT📣 I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined @AmerSongwriter as Senior News Editor, helping to build a daily news team. Very excited to get to work and make some cool things happen. I’ll be wrapping up other projects until I start on Monday, August 28. Get at me!

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

Incredible website

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2 years

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Patrick Hosken

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6 years

It's time to admit that Conor Oberst's Mystic Valley Band era was underrated as hell

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

8 years

"My Patronus is Harambe" is definitely an underrated Queens of the Stone Age song.

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8 years

I've been asked to make it clear that Harambe is not a Patronus you can actually get on @pottermore . The previous RT is a joke. As you were.

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Patrick Hosken

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5 years

Thanks @crystalbell for alerting me to this NCT 127 song, which sounds like Jamiroquai and therefore rules.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

Surprise! @LittleMix did @mtvnews Remote Access and told us how much champagne "Holiday" came out of, plus Jade showed off a gigantic water bottle the size of her head. Gotta stay hydrated

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

8 years

i WrOtE a DuMb ThiNg AbOut ZaYn'S nEw ALbUm, pLs ReAd

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@MTVNEWS

8 years

Good luck reading this review of @ZaynMalik 's #MindOfMine ✌️:

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Patrick Hosken

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9 years

Dressed like @NiallOfficial circa 2010 today so that's how the hell I'm doing

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 years

I never knew true silence before the men's bathroom at the One Direction concert

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

What's the best post-grunge song of all time? And yes, I know it's "Higher" by Creed, but I'm just asking for posterity.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

Harry Styles and Jenny Lewis should tour as a Fleetwood Mac cover band. Get the Haim sisters on the horn too.

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@patrickhosken

4 years

high school in four albums

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1 year

The only blue sky I recognize

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Patrick Hosken

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9 years

Snapchat famous, thanks @MTV .

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4 years

Seeing that Taylor Swift sent a bunch of signed Folklore CDs to small record shops, including The Sound Garden in downtown Syracuse. This is smart, yet it's still so jarring to see the Parental Advisory sticker on it!

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

2 years

Finally listened to the new Harry Styles single and am ready to declare it a nice lil slice of hazy indie pop that would’ve fit right in on 2010 playlists alongside The Drums, Beach Fossils, and Wild Nothing

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

Thinking about Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

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Patrick Hosken

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6 years

New Ally Brooke song like

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

Last night @jeffrosenstock rocked the ever-loving fuck out of @LateNightSeth , and we talked about how he did it ("We live in fucking chaos hell. I want to be honest about us living in chaos hell"), and what it means ("I don't really know.")

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Patrick Hosken

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1 year

I went HELLMODE and wrote about the terrific new @jeffrosenstock album

Album Of The Week: Jeff Rosenstock 'HELLMODE'

Jeff Rosenstock makes anthems. It’s what he does. When he declared, “You don’t own me!” on a quirky Bomb The Music Industry! cut in 2005, he made it an anthem. Throughout his career as a Long Island...

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

Posting "r.e.m. coming soon" in Times Sq of all places as we barrel down on the 10-year anniversary of R.E.M. breaking up forever is pure violence, plain and simple

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3 years

. @ArianaGrande ’s rumored cosmetics brand ‘r.e.m. beauty’ being teased in Times Square.

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Patrick Hosken

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1 year

Very excited to share I talked to Mike Shinoda about #Meteora20 , the great "new" songs on the reissue, legacy, ancient rock formations, and other @linkinpark gems for @mtvnews . Career highlight!

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Patrick Hosken

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7 years

this is what happens when you work for @MTV

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Patrick Hosken

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4 months

@gordonmphillips Marnie & Desi

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

Much like Bernie Sanders, I would also like to thank @Ratboysband for their music.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

2 years

Hey Oscar what’s a good 2010s indie band that’s no longer together who were super underrated in their time?

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Love. YUCK!

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4 years

@jennylewis

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Patrick Hosken

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4 years

Was supposed to get married today. Instead we will order takeout just to feel something.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

Zayn album is great, and he's never sound more like Jeff Buckley than on the swooning closer

ZAYN - River Road (Audio)

ZAYN // Nobody Is Listening // The New Album Out Now // https://smarturl.it/zNIL Watch the official video for “Better”: https://smarturl.it/xBetterx/youtube ...

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Patrick Hosken

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7 years

@courierjournal don't write this

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

2 years

Fucked around and closed on a house today

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

This headline is deeply upsetting. Just enjoy what you enjoy! The arty weirdness of System of a Down, the beauty and struggle of Linkin Park... Literally nothing else on this planet sounds like Fieldy's bass on Korn songs!

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

Alvvays third album when

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

A great detail about R.E.M.'s great 2001 Unplugged taping is that it went super long, delaying Staind's own Unplugged taping by several hours. They didn't start until 1 a.m. — and it was a reshoot. (attn @ScottAukerman @mradamscott )

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Patrick Hosken

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6 years

@sashageffen really wild that "utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world / drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe" were lyrics on a rock album I played every day for months at age 11

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Patrick Hosken

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9 years

One Direction might've actually broken up for real.

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Patrick Hosken

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9 years

#DadsAtOneDirectionConcerts

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

17 days

Peter Hughes has left The Mountain Goats after "either twenty-eight or twenty-two years" depending on where you measure from, John Darnielle and the band have announced. "I speak on behalf of audiences around the world when I say thank you, and that you will be dearly missed."

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Patrick Hosken

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3 years

Someone at my wedding said “I’ve never seen this many R.E.M. fans in one place, I’m freaking out” and I take that as the highest compliment

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 months

I deeply believe James Gandolfini would’ve killed it in a Wes Anderson film and frankly it’s unfair we didn’t get to have that

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

3 years

Pat Smear at the VMAs... you simply gotta fuckin love it man

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

7 years

Congratulations @jeffrosenstock

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

Not that stan culture serves any purpose beyond perpetuating itself, but the T.S./Pitchfork drama is yet another reminder that people at large have no clue what criticism is or what function it can serve in a healthy culture

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

6 years

Christian Bale thanking Satan in an acceptance speech is a good 2019 mood

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

2 years

@jack_hamilton there's still time to delete this king

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

3 years

might fuck around and drop coin on some menswear because I’m about to become a dad. drop some links

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 years

Directioners are a loud bunch.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 years

A few days late on this but rather enjoying Niall Horan's 2005 iPod commercial pop-rock.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 months

Hi! This is my first week as a radio news producer at @WBFO , working on the daily show What's Next? A dream come true. Listen here and get in touch via DM

What’s Next?

Buffalo, What’s Next? unapologetically confronts the reasons why the May 14, 2023 mass shooting occurred in Buffalo. Each hour-long episode will amplify voices that have traditionally been marginal...

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

7 years

I called @theacesofficial and they nicely talked to me on speakerphone in their van about being a band for 10 years now, which is very wild

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 years

People always talk about U2-esque moments in rock and I think the bridge of 1D's "Ready To Run" should be included

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

1 year

By the time The Sidekicks announced they were done, Steve Ciolek already had an album completed as Superviolet. It's good! You can hear it on Friday. For @mtvnews I talked to him about making it, studying physical therapy, singing at his wedding, and more

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

23 days

Honestly god bless the publicist who emailed me looking for MTV News coverage. I aspire to be as unplugged as you, my friend

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

6 years

Had a very fun time reporting and writing this one. @nownowband made one of my favorite records this year. Get to know them here.

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Meet @nownowband , a BFF duo from Minneapolis who met at band camp and stuck it out for over a decade: #ThatNewNew

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 months

It should be noted that this place now stands on the former studio where Metallica recorded KILL ‘EM ALL in May 1983

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

5 months

Simply love to see @Ratboysband and @ducksltdband joining to sing Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” mere hours after totality in Rochester

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

9 years

My dream tonight is that Zayn comes back and they sing "I Would" and it looks just like this

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

3 years

Ordered MBV on vinyl, getting vaxxed today, and getting married in 10 days. What is this feeling, optimism?

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

Honestly it rules that a bunch of teens think Pitchfork is a teacher and that if their fave does the assignment according to the directions — read: makes music — they should be awarded a 10, which is an A, which will sustain their perfect GPA, which is their Rate Your Music score

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

3 years

Dev Hynes bass solo yes please

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

Yesterday, a bunch of great folks at MTV News (and beyond) lost their jobs. I was not one of them, which feels weird. But I'm figuring it out, as they all are.

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Patrick Hosken

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8 years

I spent an afternoon with @PinegroveBand in New Jersey and wrote about it for @MTVNews .

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

3 years

Something I wrote for MTV News made it onto H.E.R.’s Instagram story for all of her 5 million followers to see 🤯

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

7 years

The barber shop has a young kid apprentice who sweeps, gets hot towels, and mans the iPod. Dude was BLASTING One Direction the whole time.

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Patrick Hosken

@patrickhosken

4 years

In summer 2010, I started watching @Jeopardy out of boredom and kept a spreadsheet of answers I got right. I stayed watching long after I deleted the doc simply because of Alex. Tried to write a few thoughts on what he means to me personally, for @mtvnews

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