Nabil Ayers
@nabilayers
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Host of Identified podcast. Author: "My Life in the Sunshine" @Beggarsgroup @valleyofsearch
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I’m starting a podcast! It’s called Identified. Here’s the 2-min trailer:
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Thanks to everyone for sending me this amazing clip. Can’t wait to see the rest of the presidential record collection!
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I had a great time writing this opinion piece for
@nytimes
. It was especially fun to type “Mr. Van Halen.”
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I spent some time with
@Imaginedragons
singer,
@DanReynolds
discussing Mormism and LGBTQ rights and wrote about it for
@Vulture
.
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I’ve never been able to put into words how much this Nirvana show fucked me up. But for
@RollingStone
, I tried.
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T-shirts are $25 at the Cure show— about $11 in ‘90s Fugazi dollars
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Wrote a piece for
@musicbizworld
about some deep industry moves, and I’m really excited about the clever title
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I can't believe I get to finally tweet this: My memoir "My Life in the Sunshine" will be published on June 7, 2022 by
@VikingBooks
. Lots more news to come!
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I just had lunch with someone who worked on both the 1979 Chic tour and the 1980 Van Halen tour. And now all of my tour stories suck.
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Seattle nerds: The University of Washington has a 1.56 TB archive of shows Jim Anderson recorded as sound engineer at
@thecrocodile
2002-2007.
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1/2 My memoir “My Life in the Sunshine” is out today, June 7. I’d love it if you picked up a copy at your local independent bookstore. It’s also available at all the big places, for your Kindle, and there’s an audiobook that I spent 20 hours reading…
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The most patriotic thing you can do this weekend is watch “Summer of Soul”
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I'm thrilled to announce that I've signed with Viking/Penguin to publish my memoir. More news soon.
@VikingBooks
@megleder
@TL_Agency
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1/ When I was in sixth grade, Def Leppard released their third album, Pyromania. Several of the band’s videos were on MTV, and the songs blew my mind with their shrill guitars and their pounding, futuristic drums. When the British band announced a Salt Lake City show in the…
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It’s a honor to reissue Bad Brains’ 1993 album “Rise” on my own small label The Control Group. First ever LP reissue. Looks and sounds great. Out Nov 4.
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Thrilled to have
@NPRCodeSwitch
run this piece I wrote about discovering my enslaved ancestors via
@23andMe
and my new friend, Karen who might be related to their owner.
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Seriously bummed about Neil Peart and advance apologies to all wives and girlfriends for this weekend’s impending Rush-a-thon
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Hopefully for the last time ever
At the risk of losing some followers- 10” are filed in w 12”
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If anyone’s working on “50 over 50” pieces, I’m now eligible.
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When your new doctor is younger than you are and wants to talk music
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I’ve wanted to tell the story of this sketchy NYC encounter for a long time. Thanks,
@nytimes
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Never, ever thought I’d say this: Heres a piece I wrote for The New York Times.
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1/2 On May 12, 1976, my father released his album "Everybody Loves the Sunshine." 3 years later, on May 12, 1979, I saw him perform at the UMass Amherst spring concert opening for the Grateful Dead and Patti Smith. I was seven, and my mother and I weren’t in contact with Roy...
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Packing a record collection: complete shit. Unpacking a record collection: still kind of sucks.
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Post a pic of you next to someone who is slightly more famous than you.
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Galleys have arrived! In the publishing world, a galley is like an advance CD. But instead of music it has lots of words.
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Grammy house band playing a Mr. Bungle cover for St. Vincent win was pretty sick
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I was an intern at Polygram when a generic white advance cassette of “4 Track Demos” arrived in the mail. Some of it was even better than “Rid of Me,” and I felt quite lucky driving around and blasting it.
A near-exhaustive collection of
@PJHarveyUK
's non-album tracks and orphaned gems, many of which rival her classic album cuts
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1998 me would not have believed that I could see Pavement, Pixies, Sunny Day and Death Cab in the same week in 2022
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1/ I tried like hell in college, but I could never get an internship at
@subpop
. When I graduated, I aced an interview at Seattle’s
@EasyStRecords
when Matt the owner told me, “We’re not just a cool record store, we sell everything from Metallica to Roy Ayers.”
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Hard to beat this band photo. And impossible to beat this band name.
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This is how you make a trailer
Summer of Soul
A Questlove Jawn
In Theaters and on Hulu July 2
#SummerofSoulMovie
@SummerofSoul
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I'm happy to have penned something positive for
@nytimes
during a rough week: I spent "Blackout Tuesday" chatting with Ed Eckstine, the first ever black President of a major U.S. record label.
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I was devastated when the 1984 tour sold out too fast for me to get tix as a kid in SLC. Finally saw the 2007 reunion tour in Seattle w
@johnroderick
. Eddie made it seem so effortless. Thankful for that night.
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1/2 - 15 years ago today, I started at 4AD. Moved into Beggars 13 years later, and I still feel fortunate every day to work with such great colleagues, artists, and labels…
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I thought everyone knew about Black Music Month. Turns out that's not the case, so I wrote about it for
@Pitchfork
. Thanks to
@angeltheoracle
,
@DyanaWilliams
,
@NnamdisWorld
,
@outsidechild13
,
@BlackArtistData
for chatting about it.
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It’s raining in nyc and there’s a great Jan 1980 XTC show on YouTube
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Teenager wearing a Cannibal Corpse hoodie in the record store explaining to his friend what Men at Work sounds like.
#2023
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5/ The entourage walked through a heavy iron gate, and as the security guard put his arm out to stop my mom and me, Rick said softly in a British accent, “These guys are all right.”
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Very psyched to see my uncle in RS. Only took 69 years :)
Following a 2018 reissue of his cult-favorite 1975 debut, avant-garde jazz saxophonist-composer Alan Braufman is back with a fiery new LP. See why "Home" is a Song You Need to Know
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None of my 1991 loving friends wants to talk about Gish, or Slave to the Grind, or the reality of my surroundings, or spine of god… such a heavy year.
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Bad Brains
Barack Obama
Bartees Strange
Beauty Pill
The Dismemberment Plan
Fugazi
Shudder To Think
There’s a lot to love about Washington DC and I’m excited to hop on a train this Sat for a book event with my pandemic friend, Chad Clark aka
@beautypill
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Absolutely insane to be the subject of this 7-minute segment on CBS Saturday Morning
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So excited, nervous, and scared that one month from today this book will be out in the world.
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This Farher’s Day, I have a lot to be thankful for. I wrote about it for the New York Times (oh, and did I mention... also in my memoir?)
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All Seattle tweets today
As the year comes to a close
@4AD_Official
's
@nabilayers
reflects on 2020, the year "music reemerged as a basic need that was less about tuning out and more about engaging." Read his thoughts on
@SaultGlobal
@arloparks
@kellyleeowens
@MABScle
& more:
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Looking to trade my Target edition of the Billie LP for the Walmart exclusive
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A neighbor is carefully and patiently practicing the Jeopardy theme song on the clarinet
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I’ve been fortunate to get some great year-end book press, but this review takes the cake. Thanks, Mark.
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I always hoped that some new family members would emerge once my book was published. I had no idea how quickly things would spread when this CBS Saturday Morning piece ran a few days before publication— one year ago today.
Full segment:
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Today I'm celebrating 10 years at
@4AD_Official
. I think this was the first song I heard on the label in 1988.
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I’ve never seen a soul LP in Target
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I'm proud to have released some great (instrumental) music this year on my own small label(s)
@valleyofsearch
+
@controlgroupco
which turns 20 next year. Thanks to
@AlanBraufman
@pfvibes
@tomas_nordmark
…
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My book has been out for 10 months, and while I’m still doing events to promote and sell it, the more exciting part is the new family connections. Yesterday in DC was a record with 2 new cousins: One father’s side, one mom’s. The 2024/2025 family (re)union is going to be insane.
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My favorite Nevermind memory is buying the CD at midnight at Tower Records Tacoma Mall. My roommates and I listened that night. Then again the next day, and we didn't bother to stop the CD. When the hidden track started, I felt physical fear, and I thought I was imagining it.
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Shout out to the kid who asked the first question at the Chapel Hill book event: “What’s your salary?”
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My
#OKComputer
memory: I worked at
@EasyStRecords
and the label ran an in-store play contest. Each time we played the CD, we were to call a voicemail line, state our name and store name, and hold up the phone to record the evidence. The store that played it the most got money.
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