LAST REMINDER! The Paranoid Style is making a Rare Public Appearance at the Pinhook in Durham on Sunday 11/9 opening for the Hypos. A reporter once told me I sang “Surly songs of insurrection.” I never disputed it. Paranoid Style at practice. Take a look and then get yr. ticket.

"He just had worms in his brain. Some people do." Damn near perfect.

This is fantastic

Reminder to self….

required reading

Thanks to The Ringer for republishing my 2022 piece on 'Nebraska' amidst the excitement surrounding 'Deliver Me From Nowhere'. It's one I'm very proud of- both a celebration of a transcendent album and a melancholy reckoning with the broken American labor movement. www.theringer.com/2022/12/14/m...

One of their best.

Startling to have to reckon with Dick Cheney's death thirty-five years after it was scheduled. He was an absolute maniac. A very weird and qualified man and historically significant. The architect of the second Gulf War, Americas least popular reality show. Dr. VERY Strangelove. Those were the days.

Maybe if @chuckprophet.bsky.social would get involved.

Playing in multiple dynasty fantasy football leagues is an inherently wicked proposition, because by week 9 you're mainlining late blowout games in search of potentially relevant injury information. Low bottom junkie business. I hope RB's get hurt. Please learn from my shame: this is no way to live.

I typically find Pitchfork reviews to be authored with great insight and edited with forensic judiciousness. Even by that standard, Gabriel Szatan's review of the new reissue of Oasis's '(What's The Story) Morning Glory' is a small masterpiece of wit and critical rigor. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

“This is the souped up muscle-car version of The Band.” Love that line and that insight. An entirely different outfit than the one we imagined from Big Pink, or thought we saw and heard on ‘The Band.’

It ain't every day in the field of journalism that one gets singled out for something as gratifying and prestigious as ASCAP's Deems Taylor award, especially in the competitive Paul Williams Liner Notes category. Paul Williams! Composer of so many of my favorite songs. Special thanks to Sony Legacy.

There is not a better music newsletter than David Cantwell and Charles Hughes' 'No Fences Review,' so it's always a fulsome privilege when they weigh in on the Paranoid Style. Cantwell on our newest, Linda Rondstadt themed single "It's A Dog's Breakfast." nofencesreview.substack.com/p/turn-it-up...

Morning Song - Tumbling Dice by Linda Ronstadt "...my favorite recording of my favorite song of all time." @paranoiacs.bsky.social #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/m...

#nowspinning on #vinylsky The Replacements, ‘Tim,’ 1985, Sire Records, #RecordStoreDay Limited-Edition Swingin Purple #Vinyl, (Ed Stasium Mix). The ‘Mats: Paul Westerberg, 🎤🎸🎹 Bob Stinson, 🎸 Chris Mars, 🥁, backing 🎤 Tommy Stinson, bass 🎸 Alex Chilton, backing 🎤 on ‘Left of The Dial’ #musicsky

Here's the legendary David Fricke writing in MOJO about the new boxset reissue of the Replacements' 'Let It Be'. Incredible to be mentioned in a piece by someone whose work I emulated. An amazing feeling overall to be a part of this @Rhino_Records passion project. www.mojo4music.com/articles/new...

Breaking news! New Paranoid Style LP 'Known Associates' debuting on 2/13/26 courtesy of Bar-None Records on its 40th anniversary. A show without intermission. How do you feel about the game? Are you still the same? Baby, yr still the same. Preorder here. theparanoidstyle.bandcamp.com/album/known-...

Podcast host, pal, & fave shredder The Paranoid Style shares a heater from her upcoming album + goes deep on Linda Ronstadt 🔥 Listen to “It's a Dog's Breakfast” below via @barnonerecords.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/track-premie...

New @paranoiacs.bsky.social dropped! "Dog's Breakfast" - don't worry there's enough for everyone.

Track of the week on my site too! www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2025/10/trac...

Big Paranoid Style news! New single "It's A Dog's Breakfast (for LR)" is available now! Plus new LP 'Known Associates' is available as a Bandcamp preorder! Check out the new tune, a tribute to my hero Linda Ronstadt, with an accompanying essay at Southwest Review! southwestreview.com/track-premie...

"Who knew/that avenue was bound for happy town"...

The gallows humor of "Swinging Party" meets the last-call flourishes of endgame addiction, the Replacements final LP 'All Shook Down' subverts the preachy tedium of the sobriety album while making it clear the party is over. Bad last call choices. Good as Jackson Browne ever did. Running on empties.

The narrative compression of the first verse of "Even the Losers" 🤯: Well, it was nearly summer, we sat on your roof Yeah, we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moon And I showed you stars you never could see Babe, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me

Right now, this seems real to you But it's one of those things you gotta feel to be true

Typically sharp essay here from Elizabeth Nelson about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 3rd album (1979). In 1976, I hitchhiked across the bridge and the Canada-US border to Full Moon Records in Port Huron, Michigan to buy their first album because the stores in Sarnia didn't have it in stock yet.

"In a time of seemingly infinite polarization, his truculent, life-affirming catalog is one of the few things most Americans can actually agree upon." Happy birthday to the man behind 'Damn The Torpedoes'. Here is an overview I wrote for the Ringer a few years back. www.theringer.com/2019/10/18/m...

They were among the first bands I fell in love with as a kid in the early to mid-70s. Alice Cooper was first but with Kiss I fell especially hard. They were the second concert I ever attended, which remains one of my favorite concert memories. For a brief time, they were my world.

Spot on. RIP Ace!!

In addition to a non-trivial number of truly great songs and riffs I can't unremember, I think the sentimental embrace of KISS is based in understanding the amount of sweat equity required of four working class kids to pull off arguably the largest spectacle of the high rock era. Rest easy Spaceman.

I knew someone with a collection of thousands of titles who believed Waiting For Columbus was the best sounding live recording of all time. Congrats on this treasure trove!

...and you show me a siiiiiii-iign, I'll be willin'....

I've been lucky to get some packages in the mail, but I'm unsure I have ever received a delivery so thoroughly gratifying as this lurid bonanza: The entire Rhino Records reissue campaign for Little Feat, my favorite band of all time. If you give me weed, whites, wine and reissues.

Morning Song - Will the Wolf Survive? by @loslobos.org “It’s the truth that they all look for, Something they must keep alive….” h/t: @paranoiacs.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/m...

🚨Brilliant song🎶🎙️🎸🥁 & Brilliant read📚🚨

Great article by @paranoiacs.bsky.social We haven’t won the Ryder Cup in Europe since 1993. If we’re gonna do it in 2027, we have to change our approach. www.theringer.com/2025/10/06/g...

First time I read that Fairport Convention was a big early influence I was surprised, but I thought about it & realized I shouldn’t have been: Folk & rock, virtuoso guitar, & superb lyrics. Their cover of Richard & Linda Thompson’s Down Where The Drunkards Roll is brilliant.

One of the biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame omissions if you put any stock in that place.

Even hearing “Will The Wolf Survive” as a dopey teenager, when lyrics meant next to nothing to me, this song felt haunted and important. I came for the guitar, stayed for everything else.

It’s a damn masterpiece.

Fuck yeah.

Elizabeth Nelson on Los Lobos.

An underdog anthem as catchy as anything REM ever conjured, Los Lobos' “Will The Wolf Survive?” reimagines the western morality plays of Townes Van Zandt through the lens of an escalating war on immigration. Maybe the most prescient song written about America during the 1980’s. Waylon sings it too.

"The Euros win and win with flair. They win there; they win here. Brimming with suave European sophistication, they make rubes of us. Somehow, this has got to stop." Over at The Ringer, I wrote about eight ways the U.S. Ryder Cup team can cease the bleeding. www.theringer.com/2025/10/06/g...

Decades of football geniuses: "Punting is a weapon." Now: "Yes, and it's not loaded."

On some days, I think the progressive permissiveness of NFL teams regularly going for it on 4th and short might represent the single greatest counter cultural achievement of my generation. A righteous struggle. It's uncomfortable to reckon with how many 80's games were ruined by unnecessary punting.

Incredulous, but not notably bitter. He seems like a pretty good sport.

The most endearing thing about "Pinball Wizard" is that it's written and sung from the point of view of the previous pinball champion, who's genuinely incredulous that he has been usurped by someone deaf, dumb and blind. So silly and moving. If we didn't have Pete Townshend, we'd have to invent him.