One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

Kaleb Horton was a fantastic writer. One of the best and most compelling of our generation. Few captured the real California like he did. I really can’t believe he’s gone.

Neil Young in Woodinville last night. Unreal show! Was beginning to think I’d never get to see the man onstage again and couldn’t have been more impressed. Rust Never Sleeps indeed 🤘

"Terrible lime!" —Trent Reznor frustrated by the quality of organic sliced limes backstage

Caught Nine Inch Nails in Seattle last night. Absolutely ripper! Almost 20 years exactly since the first time I saw them on the ‘With Teeth’ Tour in ‘05🤘

Sturgill Simpson is back on Nugs and just uploaded his 2025 live tour 🚨 Hold all my calls for a week!

One of the greatest Track one / Side one’s of all-time. A bone-chilling statement of ill-intent. It was all there from the very beginning. youtu.be/0lVdMbUx1_k?...

Another act to the epic. I'm genuinely in awe.

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

Still holding out hope for the “Watch Johnny Marr reunite with Modest Mouse” headline someday…

RIP Brian Wilson. American Genius.

Genius. Visionary. But most of all: Original. There’ll never be another Sly Stone. RIP.

Congratulations to Soundgarden!! Ultramega news, and beyond well-deserved!

Every track off WHAT’S GOIN ON, but especially “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”

Me on my knees, crying: Please let me keep reading. I swear I’m a subscriber. I was just logged in a second ago. The New Yorker website, standing over me and cocking a gun: I don’t believe you.

Sturgill Simpson covering Eddie Murphy in Paris France, just like we all expected... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDAi...

Throwback to SXSW in 2018 when The Roots show got cancelled because of a Bomb Threat. Here I am watching them soundcheck with DMC for a set that never happened. Not pictured Ludacris, who was just out of frame playing foosball.

There is absolutely nothing “highly anticipated” about a new Will Smith album in 2025 lol

Volcanoes popping - Eagles flocking

Shoutout to the icon Jimmy Page. The fight for art is a fight for humanity. www.instagram.com/share/_xS-cC...

Folks…we are back in business

The ultra-rare, Russian-Nesting Punk

Who the F*ck indeed! See y’all out in Spokane and Oregon at least 🤘

GOAT

Sound. Garden. It’s a layup. Make it happen HOF voters 🤘

Kendrick turned a diss track into a Grammy and a Superbowl halftime show it is literally impossible to top that might as well tear down mt Rushmore and put up 4 Kendricks

Best Super Bowl halftime performance ever. Zero hyperbole. Kendrick is legend.

Celebrating New Orleans culture

Visiting a time when Dinosaurs ruled the Earth 🤘

Sharon Van Etten swinging through with the best album of 2025 so far. The bar has been set. music.apple.com/us/album/sha...

1. “Inside Out” 2. “The Devil & Mr. Jones” 3. “Hot Thoughts” 4. “Do You” 5. “I Turn My Camera On”

Time some of y'all to learn The Tragically Hip

Shoutout to Beyoncé, and yet!

david attenborough? more like david attaboy because he's awesome and does great things

Time for a little bit of book learnin’

Lol. Lmaooo in fact. www.stereogum.com/2294737/cond...

Those 256k Radiohead tracks just hit different

Just finished @mikesilver.bsky.social book THE WHY IS EVERYTHING recently. Incredible read about the modern NFL. This quote from Mike Shanahan after the 49ers lost the Super Bowl last year has been ringing in my mind a lot lately…

The question isn’t *if* I’m going to see NIN on tour this year, but how many times

one of the most humiliating ass-kickings you can experience in this life is attempting to learn a “simple” Elliott Smith song on guitar

J Mascis stuns in new photo

Got a new piece in the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social today. Everything you need to know about snowshoeing across Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. Hands down one of the coolest spots in Washington State. www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor...

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

I am unreasonably excited for this movie. Catch my inevitable review in Dactylic hexameter. deadline.com/2024/12/chri...

Stanley Booth was a great writer and an American original. A few years back I spent an afternoon drinking tequila sunrises with him at a joint in Memphis listening to stories about the Stones, the ‘60s, and the South as he lived it. It was an unforgettable experience to say the least. RIP 🙏

New Springsteen archive drop on Nugs. Toronto 1975 / Born to Run tour. You better watch out! 2nu.gs/4golhOJ

iggy pop’s full name is ignatius poptimist