There's a new way to listen to the Grateful Dead: Play Dead, a nugs subscription service that brings the band's prior archival releases – and tons of exclusive new ones – to high-resolution streaming. More about the news ft @davidlemieux.bsky.social & the team www.billboard.com/pro/grateful...

RIP Bob Weir, the man whose voice I've heard more on record and in concert that any other. The prophet on the burning shore, a cosmic cowboy who stopped by Earth for a few decades to share his songs with us. A titanic loss, an immeasurable impact. The music will never stop. Rest easy.

My favorite albums and songs – led by Geese's Getting Killed and Alex G's "Afterlife" – of 2025. Alphabetically listed, my essentials separated and bolded

Wrote about some of my favorite songs of 2025 for @billboard.com's year-end list: Water From Your Eyes' 'Playing Classics,' Alex G's 'Afterlife,' Turnstile's 'Never Enough,' and Tyler, the Creator's 'Sugar On My Tongue' www.billboard.com/lists/best-s...

Wrote about two of my favorite 2025 albums for @billboard.com's year-end list: Kaytranada and Geese. My colleagues didn't share my opinion that Getting Killed is far and away the year's best album, and CERTAINLY a 2025 top 10... but that's OK! www.billboard.com/lists/best-a...

Wrote about the live return of one of the best: Tame Impala's show last night at Barclays Center www.billboard.com/lists/tame-i...

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...

Enough with the note-for-note re-records of old material. Need a Dylan album where he does barely recognizable reinterpretations of his most classic songs

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...

Wild how immediately social media becomes way more grating when it's A-Certain-Someone Season again

The way every post on The Other Site currently is about Edward Sharpe's 'Home' ... cooked

In 2024, Harris and the Democrats decided that refusing to move an inch to the left, or to vocally defend trans people, or to condemn a genocide was worth risking this and myriad other catastrophic policies, and that's something we should never forget

Wrote about how Dead & Company reunited the Deadhead community in Golden Gate Park this weekend www.billboard.com/music/rock/d...

Solid, well-informed, and finely-penned rundown by @erbrown.bsky.social 👇

Wrote about how Dead & Company reunited the Deadhead community in Golden Gate Park this weekend www.billboard.com/music/rock/d...

Jerry's Travis Bean guitar really getting around this weekend

Grahame Lesh playing Mission Control for 'Box of Rain,' Billy Strings leading a towering 'Wharf Rat,' and more highlights for @billboard.com from Dead & Company's first Golden Gate Park concert celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead www.billboard.com/lists/dead-c...

Big Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows in San Francisco but without Steve Silberman feels wrong

Answers questions about Gizz as a jamband (namely it’s impossible since they are Australian). Great insights from Jello Biafra as well.

In a just world, it's Fallon who would've been canceled, not Colbert

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A choice nugget from a solid piece. Somehow the "are they/aren't they" question still does not feel definitively settled. (For the record, I don't care if they're called a jam band, just keep being excellent to each other at the shows.)

Listening to Phish on the way to the Alex G gig

Ventured deep into the weird, wild GIZZVERSE for @billboard.com www.billboard.com/music/rock/k...

When I worked at Pollstar, an OVG subsidiary, I was on many company-wide calls led by Tim. I wish I could say this news surprised me www.billboard.com/pro/tim-leiw...

Days like today are why so many progressives and leftists were so upset in 2024 about Harris' half-baked, morally bankrupt campaign (and Biden's egotistical choice to remain in the race for so long). If Democrats lost the White House, it was going to have grave consequences and, well, here we are

Please, someone make a sampler guide to this new Springsteen release, I can't be the only person who likes Springsteen but simply can't do several hours of archival material from him (or maybe I am, considering how many Springsteen fans are true obsessives)

All venues should always provide all attendees free water always, and especially in the summer. Really screwed up that this isn't standard procedure universally

Wrote about Bad Bunny and Whatever The Weather for @billboard.com's best albums of 2025 so far list (though I should note that, love these as I do, they're not in my personal www.billboard.com/lists/best-a...

When The Wizard of Oz lands at Sphere in August, audiences will hear it like never before – here's how the team behind the production updated the iconic film's audio for the state-of-the-art venue www.billboard.com/pro/sphere-w...

Erics and Eriks can find common ground in thinking the spelling Erick is idiotic

Loved talking with @thebanderson.bsky.social about his meticulously researched, deeply engaging new book – it drops tomorrow and is essential reading for any Deadhead! www.billboard.com/pro/grateful...

German leader demands "immediate answers" following Night of the Long Knives

Was curious what the Goose subreddit thought of my Goose article

One option, if a widely beloved musician whose music you personally don't care for dies, is to simply not post about how you never cared for their music

A day late: @rebeccamilzoff.bsky.social profiled Weird Al! A wonderfully zany look at his iconic career, ft cameos from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Samberg, Don McLean, John Mayer, Daniel Radcliffe and Clairo – one of my favorite stories I've edited at @billboard.com www.billboard.com/music/featur...

Since Hamilton is trending again... eight years later, still the most trenchant critique of the troublingly hagiographic musical thebaffler.com/salvos/hamil...

It has been – and continues to be – telling when since leaving office Obama has chosen to use his immense platform and influence, and when he hasn't

Nuts to say 'Lollipop' isn't one of the 50 best Lil Wayne songs pitchfork.com/features/lis...

Yes! Yeeeessss let's goooo “The connection between the four of us is amazing,” he says. “It feels like the most connected the band has ever been. The way we’re able to communicate, and things like that — it does, to me, feel unprecedented. It feels like we’re catching a new wave.”

Wrote about Goose as the band flirts with mainstream rock stardom www.billboard.com/music/rock/g...

Even after her uncalled for dig at Zohran during the debate, I was still planning to rank Ramos. But now, she's endorsed Cuomo, even after railing against him for months. Such a disappointment

NEW YORK TIMES: mr. Cuomo, what's your favorite sandwich from a deli CUOMO, furrowing brow: I like to get a cheese chopped up,

A totally charming profile – with a little news, too – of Faye Webster by @wordsbykristin.bsky.social www.billboard.com/music/rock/f...

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...

Running a lengthy interview with AOC weeks before a consequential NYC mayoral election – where she has conspicuously not yet endorsed a candidate – and not so much as mentioning that election is a choice! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Otter's attempts at "Bon Iver"

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

Would not wish an hour trapped in a subway under the East River on my worst enemy

Oversaw @billboard.com's 40 Under 40 again this year, which as always is a fun overview of the outstanding young execs who are the future of the music business www.billboard.com/p/music-indu...