#NowSpinning Noise Addict - Young And Jaded (1994) After 2 years as a group, 2 singles, & 2 EPs, the title could be true of a now 16 year old Ben Lee & his Aussie bandmates. This slacker #indiepop EP came out stateside on Grand Royal, leading to Lee's first solo LP #NowPlaying #vinyl #VinylCommunity

#NowPlaying 🕚 11:24 am 🎵 Positive Energy 🧑‍🎤 Ben Lee 💿 This One's For The Old Headz 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music 📝 Lyrics

Christ, this hits so hard, @benleemusic.bsky.social. I've listened to it five times in a row now, crying most of the time. "What was all that dreaming for?"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow Ben Lee: 🎵 Float On #BenLee ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify #NowPlaying▶️ Song on #Spotify:

I wrote a new tune “The Fall of America” about a dream that feels like it has ended…

30 years ago today, Ben Lee released debut LP “Grandpaw Would.” They labeled you most likely to succeed. Watch MAGNET television episode w/ @benleemusic.bsky.social & read our cover Q&A w/ Ben by actress @rosebyrne.bsky.social: magnetmagazine.com/2020/06/22/m... magnetmagazine.com/2015/07/06/e...

Oddly packed boxes from home come at you fast. Spot the wee @benleemusic.bsky.social for bonus points. Also, and I cannot emphasize this enough, that Muppets notebook is where my parents kept a record of all my bowel movements, sleeping hours, and nursing times in 1980. I…did not need that.

#NowPlaying 🕓 4:26 pm 🎵 Positive Energy 🧑‍🎤 Ben Lee 💿 This One's For The Old Headz 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music 📝 Lyrics

OMG! ICYMI! @benleemusic.bsky.social x Phantom Planet and that's the way I like it. That's the way I like it. Shoe gaze. Playing them on the radio. Please baby Pleaseeeee! Open your heart and "Catch My Disease" 2025... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo5F...

Let’s do it…whatever it is 🌺 Tix via bio link #AITNS20

wrong answers only…

#NowPlaying 🕔 5:28 am 🎵 Positive Energy 🧑‍🎤 Ben Lee 💿 This One's For The Old Headz 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music 📝 Lyrics

This album turns 20 this year! 🙏

I just saw a clip where @benleemusic.bsky.social says the Beastie Boys are not at fault, but they did lead directly to Limp Bizkit and Korn. Mind blown emoji.

What a privilege to see @benleemusic.bsky.social in Canberra tonight! An astonishingly generous performer, who took my shouted request for “bring my body home“ noting only that as far as he recalled the correct title was “ship my body home“.

Sometimes I wonder if the Democracy Now! jazz fusion theme music is part of the alt right pipeline

Aussie EDM genius Ninajirachi creates a song in real time on our pod Weirder Together using only our voices and other rando sounds. Brilliant!!

Kinda romantic and sad

#NowPlaying 🕛 12:19 am 🎵 Positive Energy 🧑‍🎤 Ben Lee 💿 This One's For The Old Headz 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music 📝 Lyrics

Ione Skye on being Donovan’s Daughter

Don’t forget @benleemusic.bsky.social

‘Say Anything...’ star Ione Skye talked to CBS News about her new memoir ‘Say Everything,’ out now via Gallery Books

THE BEST SHOW IS LIVE with Ione Skye & Nicole Lawrence! Tune in now on YouTube: youtube.com/live/TdHzX1y...

#NowPlaying 🕓 4:24 am 🎵 Positive Energy 🧑‍🎤 Ben Lee 💿 This One's For The Old Headz 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music 📝 Lyrics

@benleemusic.bsky.social Being in her age and interest peer group, I love Ione Skye and can’t wait to dig into this! I also love Ben Lee and Ione Skye’s podcast Weirder Together so check it out!

In her new memoir, Ione Skye recalls her early life and the sense of desperation for love that drove her into whirlwind romances with Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Matthew Perry, Anthony Kiedis and Robert Downey Jr., among others.

From dad Donovan's rejection to a toxic relationship with Anthony Kiedis, Gen X it girl Ione Skye bares all www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

My friend wrote a book! Ione Skye has written a wonderfully intimate and occasionally harrowing account of her adventures in the music and film trade during the 1980s and 1990s … I will be chatting with her about it tonight in New York City, if you happen to be around and are interested.

Say Anything’s Ione Skye has a new memoir, “Say Everything,” and we get into the juicy details! Then anti-aging pioneer Travis Skin and Doctor Scrumptious!!

It's okay, Ione Skye, we all had to sleep with someone with a trench coat and a boom box to get it out of our system at some point

RIP David Johansen. I loved his presence in the music sphere. I especially loved all his post Dolls solo albums when he was right in the fray trying for a boba fide rock career. He wasn’t afraid to fall over and tried all sorts of goofy stuff but was heartfelt all the while. In Style was his second

1/2 Started reading Ione Skye new memoir #SAYEVERYTHING #GalleryBooks & do not want to put it down. Beautifully written, heartbreakingly funny & frank – for those of us who are fans of her podcast w @benleemusic.bsky.social #WeirderTogether [...]

I profiled Ione Skye for @nytimes.com about her new memoir SAY EVERYTHING, kissing Keanu, going to parties at Mick Jagger's house, and breaking free of the ingenue role www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/a...

War is the territory of idiots.

I hate it when the dustbin of history and the recycling get all mixed up.

Signed

Oh wow - apparently “Awake is the New Sleep” came out 20 years ago today! Might have to organize something to celebrate 🤔

20 years ago today, Ben Lee released “Awake Is The New Sleep” (New West). All you need is love. Watch our MAGNET television episode with @benleemusic.bsky.social, and read our cover interview with Ben by actress Rose Byrne: magnetmagazine.com/2020/06/22/m... magnetmagazine.com/2015/07/06/e...

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Happy birthday Brad Wood (Liz Phair, @benleemusic.bsky.social, Pete Yorn, Sunny Day Real Estate, et al). Hope you do something grand. Listen to our MAGNET Classics Podcast featuring @bradwood.bsky.social on the making of Yorn’s “musicforthemorningafter”: magnetmagazine.com/2021/08/11/m...

I chat about my memories of friendship and collaboration with Tom Robbins on this weeks Weirder Together pod

Had a lovely time DJing at Lumon Industries recently for their Music Dance Experience! #severance

Chatted about Tom on todays pod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Great song 🎵🎵🥰😄😃

I worked with Tom Robbins briefly directing a musical based on his “children’s” novella “B is for Beer” The show was a beacon of quirky positivity, and so was he. So grateful for what he brought to the world. #RIPTomRobbins www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

“A sense of humor is superior to any religion so far devised.” - #TomRobbins

Goodbye Tom Robbins thank you for the friendship,wisdom, playfulness, collaboration,mysticism, love and inspiration. You discovered a hidden portal and you invited your readers and friends to explore it with you.Thank you for being a guide in this bizarre labyrinth. Vale!

Trump Derangement Syndrome seeming less deranged each day

May you one day be blessed to experience hearing the absolute perfection of Dave Rawlings playing every wrong note possible in a guitar solo which is the medicine you need whether you know you want it or not