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In honor of Anthony Bourdain, go to a small restaurant this weekend in your town's Mexican or Kurdish or Laotian or El Salvadoran or Somali neighborhood. Even if that neighborhood is only visible to you via that restaurant. Have a real conversation with the cook. Tip extra.
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Hey my kind friends, I really appreciate all the support today. I still think NFR is a deeply compelling, crucial album and hope everyone spends time listening to it (and goes back to Ultraviolence and Lust For Life too). Taking a few days off here to take Frankie on a long walk
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I wrote this some days ago and hoped so much we would not have to publish it. But
#RIPJohnPrine
😰😥😓
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Had a long talk with
@TTChilders
and
@silasdhouse
about allyship, rural life, art as politics, Tyler’s new album and their spectacular new music video for “In Your Love”
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Juliana Hatfield’s influence is underacknowledged. From the start she was fierce as hell, relentlessly musical and repping for the girls who had to fight to be taken seriously. She’s still cool btw!
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I can't really imagine Nashville without John Prine. Can't imagine songwriting without him. We are ALL pouring good energy toward you now, John and Fiona and all. Stricken by what this pandemic is doing to us.
@JohnPrineMusic
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I really appreciate all the love for my
@lanadelrey
piece, must add, everything I do at
@nprmusic
is better because
@jacobganz
checks and protects.
#editorsmatter
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I'm just slightly confused about all this "OMG WE MADE A MUSICAL" stuff in the Age of Hamilton
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@wyntermitchell
Snoop is the most everything-at-once pop star since Elvis. Somebody needs to do a pod on the United States Of Snoop
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I've been living with Joni Mitchell in my head for so long, I can't believe I'm finally sharing this with the world! Here it is, the cover of TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Pub date March 2024. Available for pre-order here:
@deystreet
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He even wore his Proud Dad/Hubby slacks!
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Southern-born black women have always been the heart of American music, and I'm very happy that the
#rockandrollhalloffame
recognized two today: Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Nina Simone!
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The Nashville-based music industry continues to enact vaccine requirements for most events, showing more willingness to take seriously recommended medical protocols than many of the the state's political leaders
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SOMEONE STOP THE PROCESS he is turning into Kid Rock
Macaulay Culkin says he lost his virginity while listening to the Beatles’ White Album
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I think it's weird that all the press on MJ Lenderman's new album hardly talked about the Band. So I did it.
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This is batshit crazy, and I don't use that phrase lightly
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Heya this is specifically for publicists + others pitching the team at
@nprmusic
--we are undergoing layoffs for the rest of the week and feeling sick and uncertain. Please have patience, maybe don't hit "send" on that nudge. Kind notes accepted, I received one and it meant a lot
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Yes, we named
@rihanna
as the Most Influential Woman Artists of the 21st Century and
@jennygathright
wrote the hell out of the essay explaining why
#TurningtheTables
@nprmusic
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Like all of my peers, I'm so happy to see R.E.M. reunited. But let's also remember the dear departed spirit of Bill Rieflin, who took that drummer's stool and did miraculous things there when Bill Berry could not. Bill R. was a magical kind man and a great player. I miss him.
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I really can't believe Albini died, I feel like my generation died, no kidding, he was a titan even when he did and said things that completely repulsed me. Lately he seemed like such a mensch helping artists of all kinds. May his memory be a blessing
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That the newspaper of record in America's entertainment capitol would lay off nearly its entire arts writing staff is zombie apocalypse level disturbing
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Some personal news: I'm taking a six month leave from
@nprmusic
to work on a few book projects. I'll miss my NPR fam! But good things, I believe, will come of this time.
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One other thing about Pitchfork: it's super important that the coverage there has evolved to be well-balanced across genres. Many of you don't remember the '90s era of "rock" mags and "hip hop" mags, the racial divide was real 1/
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Women need to step up? I'll make the obvious comment: maybe Neil Portnow needs to step down
#GrammysSoMale
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I'm interested to see if ANYONE from mainstream country will speak out against that Aldean song and especially the video, which advocates violence against outsiders, and makes clear who those "outsiders" are. It's time. It's past time.
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This is my first
@pitchfork
byline ever as I guest there and continue my journey with Joni. Thanks to
@staceykanderson
and I’m so happy to share the space with such fine writers!
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two polio survivors
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Hire women. Collaborate with women. Partake of women's creativity. Listen to women's ideas.
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Seeing news that my old friend Bill Rieflin has died of cancer. You know him as a mighty drummer for bands from Ministry to later R.E.M. To me he was the kindest guy who worked with me at Tower Records SF when I was 19 and so uncool. Hadn't seen him for a while but I am so sad.
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I just don't even want to talk about the loss of Sinéad. I love her music so much and she's meant so much to me. I don't feel like saying more than that right now.
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We made a list of 150 Greatest Album by Women. Read, argue, celebrate
Though some male critics found The Roches startlingly intimate, many women heard exactly what they were thinking.
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Re. the convo about Taylor Swift, girlishness and not having children -- 💯 a real analysis requires centering race and it's interesting to consider Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson in re these intersections too. 1/
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Laura Palmer's scream is not a substitute for narrative closure in
#TwinPeaks
. That scream is the center and point of the whole story.
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I've said it a million times, it's a main thesis of my last book, and it's totally obvious to say: there is no American music separate from African-American music.
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We need a Footloose style movie in which kids defy their parents by choosing to wear masks to school
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Good night everyone. See you tomorrow. In case you missed it, Tracy Chapman appeared on a TV program for the first time in 5 years tonight.
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I would really love to read a Beyoncé interview where she talks about her musical process in detail. We’re taking a lot about the “why” but I really want to know the “how,” from her. She clearly is a master in the studio, swish she would share the wisdom
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At the end of this day I feel the need to point out that a wealthy white Southern man using the N- word casually is hardly a historic occurrence while a country star at the top of his game coming out IS a historic occurrence
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I spent some time listening to Michael Jackon’s music in the wake of
#LeavingNeverland
and wrote about the experience, about
#cancel
culture, about witnessing trauma and trying to process something that has been changed but which also remains the same
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In other news, I re-listened to Jagged Little Pill not long ago and liked it better than I did in the ‘90s so
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Imagine if what's happening today in basketball happened in the realm of popular music.
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Gentle reminder to all writing about
@ParasiteMovie
's historic win that it's a movie about the insidiousness of aspirational capitalism and the daily violence wrought by class divisions ok good night!
#Oscars
#Oscars2020
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One more thing, I think Roman’s
final knife in Kendall’s gut about his kids’ bio parentage is really important. The true regressive meaning of the word
#Succession
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Hey music-loving pals who also like to read: NPR Music is starting a new thing today, publishing all of our reviews on the same day, like an old-school reviews section. Check these out! 1/
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Well, some people might want to know
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Is anyone worried about Lady Bird going to NYU and destroying her family by accruing totally unmanageable student loan debt?
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Sure, "Fast Car" is great, but have you tried "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
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Sometimes I think about the brilliance of PJ Harvey and I honestly figure everybody else should just give up
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Never forget Harrison Ford built Joan Didion's beach house deck
#GoldenGlobes
#GoldenGlobes2019
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If you'd told me ten years ago that the greatest American rock and roll star would be a lesbian from Washington state... I might have believed you. Tonight I feel it's beyond doubt
@brandicarlile
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Also, yes, women worked at
#ViceMedia
even tho it was obviously sexist. Women work everywhere, for every reason imaginable. Should women not work in the military? In tech? In most religious organizations? Women must be free to work where they feel compelled to work.
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Totally understand why "Won't Back Down" is the moment's anthem but wouldnt it be interesting if Americans everywhere were singing "Refugee"
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Well one person is not mincing words
#GRAMMYs
More from Adele on Beyoncé: "I felt like it was her time to win. What the fuck does she have to do to win album of the year?"
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I must say that under
@senari
’s leadership
@pitchfork
has expanded its vision in so many ways to become the kind of truly expansive site that can survey the atomized world of popular music. And it’s given us some of the best critics. All love to those who are doing that work.
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Ok I haven’t shared this before but tonight’s the night: my only RS cover was Joan Osborne. My lede was Joan spontaneously singing an Aretha song in the van on the way to a gig and the whole band savoring her incredible voice. It was making the point, this woman lives to sing 1/
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Now that the dust has cleared and Kate is securely in, here's what I have to say: Indigo Girls for the Rock Hall.
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Hearing that Don Everly has died. Many today forget how crucial the Everly Brothers' songs and sound was to early rock and roll. Their blend influenced so many and captured the hungry, addled teenage heart like little else.
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"As a woman in music, it's really hard to be taken seriously" said Gaga after Ronson grabbed all but 10 seconds of their acceptance speech time
#GoldenGlobes
#GoldenGlobes2019
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If you’ve been curious about the thinking I’ve been doing about
@jonimitchell
these past few years as I approach a book on her, here is a taste
#joniblue
#blueis50
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Robbie Robertson's legacy is huge and goes beyond the Band. We can argue about
@U2
Joshua Tree also 1987, but Robertson's solo album coproduced w/
@daniellanois
ushered in a new sound for "roots" music. Who followed? Dylan, Emmylou, Willie, U2 itself with No Line on the Horizon.
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So I never listened to Joe Rogan before this week and I have one observation. It's about sound. The tone of that pod is damn soothing: it's like misinformation AMSR. 1/
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It’s worth saying there’s also a Taylor Swift for women (who don’t relate to Taylor Swift): Nina, Aretha, Dolly, Joni, Minnie, Kate, Chrissie, Debbie, Madge, Latifah, Lucinda, Janet, Tori, Tracy, Polly, Sade, Mary, Missy, Hayley, Fiona, Jenny, Sharon, Annie, Corin, Carrie, Meg…
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Happy birthday to the one whose songs taught so many how to think about music, love, and thinking itself. Here’s something I wrote on “Blue.”
#happybirthdayjonimitchell
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Wow. Words do sometimes have an effect. I’m impressed
@rockhall
BREAKING: Jann Wenner removed from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which he cofounded, one day after his NYT interview. Story coming.
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Also I hear that one person who worked at Pfork for nearly two decades, who invented fundamental aspects of its editorial content, who is one of the nicest and most solid people in this often nasty music biz, got laid off. No names bc privacy. But it's brutal and wrong
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This is a year-end essay, but more than that. It's my deep dive into how rock and roll and
#MeToo
connect.
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People are saying Jerry Lee Lewis is the last living Titan of early rock and roll add TINA TURNER to that list.Her first recording was in 1958 and she influenced Mick as much as Little Richard influenced John and Paul. Here's "Little Ann" singing "Box Top"
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“The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in 68/and he told me, all romantics meet the same fate”
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Anybody else questioning the whole point of their path in life? Happy Monday!
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My Joni book is out in days, June 11. An exciting and nerve-wracking time! If you see any smack-talking reviews don't point me toward them. Despite my knowledge that haters gonna hate and my attempts to rise above, inside I'm still that lil kid who got called names in school
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The most popular Joni Mitchell song on YouTube is the Counting Crows version of Big Yellow Taxi, I give up on humanity
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Blatantly sexist organizations, spaces, subcultures have been tolerated as "safety valves" for misogyny for too long, from the Playboy Mansion to Vice. The fact that "everybody knows" or "it's obvious" is what makes these the most important aspects of culture to confront.
#Vice
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Please note the soul connection. This is country!! Historically and now.
@SturgillSimpson
#GRAMMYs
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Another thought about Eddie Van Halen's appeal to teen girls when the band was young: he was a guitar hero who took pleasure in the gift of his own body, fingers flying, without shoving his power in our faces. Golden, but for music, not sports. He was our quarterback.
#RIPEddie
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This is gospel. Queens singing, inspired preaching, choir communing. And btw gospel inventred rock and roll as well as soul.
#GRAMMYs
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I said “white male privilege” on the radio and some people are mad.
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Now it can be told... tomorrow morning early my long chat with
@PJHarveyUK
goes live!! I was thrilled to go deep with one of my absolute faves about her new album, finding her voices, creating characters and being a maker. It will be on the
@allsongs
feed. SQUEEEEEE
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Wenner pile-on, so many women and BIPOC people in music writing have waited years for this hoist by the old petard
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Because I like to waste time I was just looking at the Pazz & Jop archive versus the new
@pitchfork
Best Albums of the 90s lists and here are some albums that mattered to us then but which seem to have lost their sheen for cool people... 1/
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I'm depressed about the impending civil war in the music world between the vaxxed and unvaxxed. I hate that live performance is becoming a site of politicized divisiveness.
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Sure Damon Albarn said something shady about TSwift but Evan Rachel Wood said she was sexually assaulted while making a video that’s STILL UP ON ALL PLATFORMS where’s the outrage about that? On the continuum of misogyny, one is getting much more attention, why, do you think?
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You've all heard about the NPR layoffs by now and are rightly mourning and raging about the specifics of these cuts. I have a very personal tribute to pay and that's to
@mrsslrss
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Yearly reminder that Spotify Wrapped doesn't work for professional music writers bc we listen to the stuff we write about in intense spurts that then become our song or artist of the year. That said, amused/confused that my city is Burlington, VT? I've never been there.
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The thing about
@jennylewis
is that her songs acknowledge that joy takes work and comes easy at the same time, and that you can’t know which way it’s gonna go at any point. She’s a great existentialist!
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This year’s Turning the Tables focuses on the present with a list of 200 Greatest Songs by 21at Century Women. Celebrate, argue with us, share far and wide!
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