Ended up going way deeper on Sheila E.'s "The Belle of St. Mark" than I expected to (or, frankly, than it probably deserves), including a brief detour into the Venetian Carnival imagery that started popping up in Prince's aesthetic universe circa 1984. princesongs.org/2025/10/14/t...

The Crypt Keeper’s rap song (yes you read that right) is incredibly NPG coded youtu.be/kA4DNa9j4rw?...

Mural on the Side of Cookhouse Recording Studios (1986) 8 26th St. E Source: Hennepin County Library Cookhouse Recording Studios was a recording studio in Minneapolis. Prince's first professional recording was done at the studio after local musician Pepe Willie hired Prince to play guitar and ...

Feel like others have complaining about the ATWIAD release itself covered, so I'll just continue beating my dead horse: Ever since the estate changed hands the merch has been nothing but tacky shit. I would love a good ATWIAD T-shirt, but none of these designs are it store.prince.com/collections/...

Oh shit, I just realized, if I stay on track with my current writing schedule I'll be starting my ATWIAD posts right when the reissue comes out. Is this what being timely feels like???

$50 for the 12" version of Girl with some bonus tracks, sure, I'll take it

New post on what may secretly be my favorite song from Sheila E.'s The Glamorous Life! princesongs.org/2025/09/09/o...

Finished my post on "The Glamorous Life"! I can already tell this album is going to be fun to write about. princesongs.org/2025/08/26/t...

My non-religious picture I think of as holy, obv

I don’t like to be a professional estate complainer but these LinkedIn-ass, probably AI-generated “quotes” they’ve been publishing on social media are extremely wack

Just finished a new post--my 150th!--on "Erotic City": continuing a real hot streak of #Prince B-sides, and setting up a new arc on Sheila E.'s The Glamorous Life. princesongs.org/2025/08/04/e...

42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."

Brb, checking Zillow

Probably my favorite story from the sessions that produced "17 Days" (which caused me to go into a rabbit hole about tape speeds that derailed my writing process for a good two weeks). Next post (on "Erotic City"!) is chugging along, read this one in the meantime: princesongs.org/2025/07/17/1...

Finally finished writing about what might be my favorite #Prince song of all time (and no, I did not mean to publish it on 7/17, but I'll take it!) ☔🚬🚬💔 #17days princesongs.org/2025/07/17/1...

This week (God willing) ☔️🚬🚬💔

Today marks 41 years from the start of "When Doves Cry"'s five-week reign on the Hot 100. I don't usually mark non-milestone anniversaries, but I wanted an excuse to share this monster post I wrote last year. One of these days I'll finish writing about the B-side... princesongs.org/2024/07/29/w...

Jumping on this to share my Prince research library/de facto shrine (which has grown to the point that my sister’s Dirty Mind painting is almost fully obscured)

PSA: Most of the sessions from this past weekend's incredible #PopLife40 virtual symposium (including mine!) will be available to watch "on demand" via the Zoom Events platform through the end of the month. Register here if you haven't already: poplife40.substack.com

Just joined the live keynote for #PopLife40 (a little late) with the original lineup of the Family!!! What a coup for Prince nerds www.youtube.com/live/mpkFakF...

It's already been a long, crummy year, but I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting at the #PopLife40 virtual symposium on Saturday, April 12! My presentation will explore the discourse of Around the World in a Day as Prince's "Beatles album": poplife.polishedsolid.com/zachary-hosk...