Did I spend 12 hours at Farm Aid and just write about the final 3? Not exactly but kinda.

Thread. 🧵 When I interviewed Toni Basil back in 2021 we were both kind of amazed that there still hadn’t been a full-length bells-and-whistles documentary made about her incredible life. These people won’t be with us forever, you know.

And both records received expanded reissues this year, too!

the rapture’s show in san diego on tuesday night should be a wild time

Out of print for years, the first album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks gets a long overdue reissue this week. My review of Buckingham Nicks is available in my latest newsletter. sterlewine.substack.com/p/buckingham...

Only a true punk legend could have written the best Clash *and* Hüsker Dü songs.

Farewell to Sonny Curtis, a member of Buddy Holly & the Crickets and the author of such enduring classics as the Everly Brothers’s “Walk Right Back,” the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law” and the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme “Love is All Around.” bestclassicbands.com/sonny-curtis...

I’ve had this album on vinyl (a $1 score!) for years and I’m glad more people are finally getting to hear it! It’s also really fun to spot the material that made its way into Fleetwood Mac songs, like the intro to « Lola (My Love) » (a typical 1970s country blues jam) recycled for « The Chain ».

Nobody writes a better concert review than Keith.

They already hated each other, but Stephanie (for example) is one of the prettiest songs you’ll ever hear

Out of print for years, the first album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks gets a long overdue reissue this week. My review of Buckingham Nicks is available in my latest newsletter. sterlewine.substack.com/p/buckingham...

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Farewell to Robert Redford, one of the great actors and directors of the 20th Century and a crucial advocate for independent film. It's hard to imagine American cinema without him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

When QUIZ SHOW didn't catch fire at the box office, Hollywood died a little for me. You just cannot ask for a better-crafted and performed studio film, one that reflected the values of its director beautifully. thereveal.film/quiz-show-at...

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

“I’ve got bed head,” Redford says with mild despair. I profiled Redford in 2013. We ran into Brad Pitt at Telluride, the first time they had seen each other in a decade. There were happy tears. He was smart, funny, and yeah handsome. RIP www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

One last thing, if you can find this on a pirate channel, The Hot Rock is a caper movie based on a Donald Westlake book with a Bill Goldman screenplay. It’s basically Ocean’s 11 but with dirtbags and it’s a hidden masterpiece and I love it so very much

Horrible news. Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce wrote some of the most enduring pop tunes of the 1960s, including their own hit “I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight” which is one of my favorite singles of all time. youtu.be/mfnlBXLHd08?...

Over at @pitchfork.com , I review Who Is the Sky?, the relentlessly cheerful new album from David Byrne. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Over at @pitchfork.com , I review Who Is the Sky?, the relentlessly cheerful new album from David Byrne. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

My latest newsletter: catching up with a bunch of records, including albums where I fell for the charms of Sabrina Carpenter and Big Thief. Also: Margo Price, the Who Live in 71, The Hives, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, more.

My latest newsletter: catching up with a bunch of records, including albums where I fell for the charms of Sabrina Carpenter and Big Thief. Also: Margo Price, the Who Live in 71, The Hives, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, more.

Having a hard time comprehending that I’ve heard the Soup Dragons’s “Divine Thing” in the wild twice within the course of one week.

Over at @theguardian.com, I salute the late Rick Davies by shining a spotlight on 10 of the best Supertramp songs. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

The Miles Davis estate sells the majority of its music rights to Reservoir Media, including publishing rights, control of his name and likeness, plus the income derived from his recordings. Note: Sony still owns the recordings for the bulk of Davis's catalog. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Over at @theguardian.com, I salute the late Rick Davies by shining a spotlight on 10 of the best Supertramp songs. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Wow do you guys think The Beatles will ever be able to catch her

Farewell to Mark Volman, co-founder of the Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, and one of the great eccentrics of the rock'n'roll era. My obituary for the Los Angeles Times. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Suede reject nostalgia on their powerful, passionate tenth album. My review is in my latest newsletter. sterlewine.substack.com/p/suede-anti...

RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.

Farewell to Mark Volman, co-founder of the Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, and one of the great eccentrics of the rock'n'roll era. My obituary for the Los Angeles Times. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

really charming & earnest lou reed interview by flo & eddie, 1978. come for lou's rare sweetheart mode, stay for volman's powerful classic krusty vibes. youtu.be/djk8aLC7X4I?...

when I first started digging into music as a kid, loved it when you learned that the same guy who sang the Turtles records was also on T. Rex's Electric Warrior, and Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" & the Psychedelic Furs' "Forever Now" & so on. RIP Mark "Flo" Volman. www.discogs.com/artist/27168...

RIP Mark Vollman: founding Turtle, backing vocalist on "Bang A Gong," Zappa collaborator, guy who sued De La Soul and ruined sampling, but also the guy whose satirical, anti-everything 1976 piano-pop banger invented the "Lemonade" beat www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3a...

My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here: www.hbglibrary.com/titles/jonat...

Suede reject nostalgia on their powerful, passionate tenth album. My review is in my latest newsletter. sterlewine.substack.com/p/suede-anti...

Tired of listening to the seven unreleased albums Bruce Springsteen released earlier this year? Don't worry! The Boss has his second big box set of 2025 on the way: Nebraska 82, a 4-disc set highlighted by the legendary "Electric Nebraska," is out October 17. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

“Cinemax Classics,” is that like Criterion level restorations of softcore flicks

If you have suggestions, hit me up!

Also, I noticed for the first time @sterlewine.bsky.social's byline in my beloved MOJO. The riches go deep folks. You owe it to yourself to snatch it up. In print, natch.

This is a must.

Wonder if UK pub and punk rock makes more sense if you think of it as a grim and gritty reboot of rock'n'roll, like making a dark version of Batman or Transformers

Wild day for the Walking Tall fandom bsky.app/profile/cari...

Quartet No. 8: The Four Tops. The long and winding close, from "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" to the death of Duke Fakir. 64quartets.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/8...

Taylor Swift played to an audience of maybe ten people in my former company’s lunchroom circa 2006.

They finally fixed THE WIZARD OF OZ:

Jamie Spears: Matchmaker to the Stars.

A Tribute To Jack Johnson is the one that broke my mind open.