Eric Renner Brown

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Billboard cover featuring Cardi B with the cover line "CARDI B MAKES HER MOVE"
Via Twitter: @jimmyfallon: It's a Jorts Summer!! And it's also Will Ferrell's birthday. You know what has to be done. [video of Fallon dancing in jorts]
Reddit comment from u/nobedforbeatlegeorge: I did not hate this article and I kind of expected to haha
New York Times excerpt: Taylor’s Versions have been far more successful as a marketing project than as a creative endeavor (apart from the release of vault tracks, previously unheard songs from each period). Initially, it was an intriguing exercise to forensically analyze the new versions for differences from the originals, some crisp and deliberate, others the inevitable result of imprecise photocopying. But Swift’s gifts are in her unvarnished capturing of the now; creating replicas has felt like a cruel joke, and an insult to the originals. The prior albums couldn’t be improved upon either — not because they’re perfect, but because they are the art that was true to the moment in which they were released.
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Pitchfork news article from 5/5/2025: Vinyl Me, Please Customers Face Uncertainty as Company Enters Liquidation The Denver-based record club has assigned its assets to a third party, which will handle refund claims
Headline: Lakers' early NBA playoffs exit a blow to betting public
Beyoncé setlist for 4/28/25 at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA, USA
SETLIST: PHISH, WEDNESDAY 04/23/2025 BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDITORIUM San Francisco, CA SET 1: Simple -> Punch You in the Eye > Gumbo > Reba, The Well > David Bowie, Character Zero SET 2: Sample in a Jar > Tweezer > Lonely Trip, Crosseyed and Painless > Pillow Jets, You Enjoy Myself ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea, First Tube Gumbo contained Manteca teases from Page and Tweezer teases from Trey. Trey teased Manteca in Tweezer.
On TikTok: "I think one of my most meaningless flexes is that I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens since 2015 at the ripe age of 15. Because my freshman English teacher played Carrie & Lowell before first period, and I was one of those insufferable kids who liked to hang out with their English teacher too much. But it's okay because ten years later, my music taste is better because of it."
Pitchfork's 8.1 non-BNM review of Bon Iver's SABLE, fABLE
From Pitchfork: "If that sounds exhausting, that’s because it is. This is the album equivalent of a YouTube party where everyone plays their favorite tracks for 35 seconds at a time and screams over them and sniffs a lot. The voiceovers get tiresome, and sometimes you wish a track would last longer than a minute. But there are so many ideas, so much life packed into every second, that it’s hard not to be bowled over by the sheer force of will. You will listen to these next 15 seconds of dentist-drill dubstep, and you will enjoy it."
Pitchfork's 8.0 review of Skrillex's F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3
@nytcooking: "Does Anyone Actually Like Steak Fries?"
Miley Cyrus Announces New Album Something Beautiful: The pop musician worked with Shawn Everett on an album that she’s said was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall
New York Post (3/23/25): Forest Hills Stadium told no concerts this summer as fight over noise with fed-up neighbors hits boiling point
@kaitlancollins: Sen. Bernie Sanders: “I know, everyone's beating up on Chuck [Schumer] and I strongly disagree with him. Strongly. No one is in the caucus more critical of Schumer than I am. But it's not Schumer…it’s not the caucus. It’s the Democratic Party.”
@residentadvisor: Are @radiohead gearing up for a tour? The band's management donated tickets to a "Radiohead concert of your choice" in a recent auction. A source has also confirmed to RA that a run of European residencies have been lined up. Find out more.
Billboard Pro (3/17/2025): Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Tour Sells 94% of Ticket Inventory, Plus a New Date Is Added
Voter 1: Oasis has a brand to protect. They are the turds in the punch bowl of rock and roll. They have to act like they’re above it all and don’t give a shit, though Liam said he would show up if they got inducted. I won’t vote for them. I have a hard time seeing the influence. I suspect a lot of the people voting for them are ten years younger than me who remember the ’90s a little more fondly than I do.
Voter 1: If I were going to rank this ballot, Phish would be dead last. A big fat no. I come by my distaste honestly: About ten years ago, I was at a bar with some buddies; I was relatively sober and something had been playing on the jukebox for about 15 minutes. I was finally like, “What is this shit music?” It was in minute 18 of a 20-minute track from the Phish album A Live One. Some jerk had used his $2 for TouchTunes to put on a Phish track because (a) he’s a Phishhead and (b) he wanted to punk the whole bar. All the clichés apply. I do appreciate that Trey Anastasio is a genuine fan of rock history. I just can’t stand the music.
@thepopstuff: Several media outlets are reporting the massive FAILURE of Beyoncé's vastly UNSOLD "Cowboy Carter Tour". The tour has barely sold out 3/30 shows, with 27 shows still having a lot of unsold tickets. A music industry insider said "Sometimes you don’t retire. The fans retire you."
FFO: Tortoise, Waxahatchee, Slint, The Minutemen, Sebadoh
Buddy Guy, Switchfoot Unite for a Soul-Stirring Anthem of Survival
Gothamist: Gov. Hochul won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office, sources say
@applemusic: .@partynextdoor and @Drake turn up the heat with their new EP. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is out now
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME 2025 NOMINEES BAD COMPANY THE BLACK CROWES MARIAH CAREY CHUBBY CHECKER JOE COCKER BILLY IDOL JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER CYNDI LAUPER MANÁ OASIS OUTKAST PHISH SOUNDGARDEN THE WHITE STRIPES
@kenklippenstein: "What leverage do we have?" says Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "They control the House, the Senate and the presidency; it's their government."
ROLLING STONE: You did get a fair share of criticism, though. The top comment on your own fan Reddit is, “LMAO. It’s a PAC that has endorsed all the worst candidates from both parties. What the hell are they even doing?” Did you talk about the optics of doing this gig? CARNEY: Of course we saw all the shit coming in, but it was like, “What are you going to do?” We were told it was a bipartisan thing. It was what it is. It was very small. It was in our hometown, so we got to go home and see our folks. I’ve definitely seen my name in bad light in the press before, so it wasn’t anything fucking new … If us playing a concert for 300 people is going to sway the whole state’s vote, then we have bigger fucking problems, bro.
@HeerJeet: This is the same Democratic Party strategy since Trump emerged in 2015: appeal to a bipartisan foreign policy consensus to cast Trumpism as anti-American. It's an argument that has failed again & again, with less & less juice, yet people like Schumer refuse to try anything else.
TRUMP TOWN U.S.A. OFFICIAL ANTHEM FOR DONALD J. TRUMP
@SenSchumer: By shutting down USAID, DOGE is doing the work of Russia and China at the expense of the United States. It’s dangerous. It’s against America’s interests. Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
@variety: Joe Biden Signs With CAA
Taylor Swift and Bob Weir at the 2025 Grammys
@SenSchumer: You’re watching the Super Bowl next week. Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.
@stephen_neukam: Scoop — Kirsten Gillibrand has privately signaled that the DSCC is prepared to intervene in party primaries next year, multiple sources said. Dems prepared to tip the scales in Michigan, Maine, North Carolina, etc. At a fundraiser last night, Gillibrand singled out Roy Cooper, saying he would be a "formidable candidate."
MOMMA ANNOUNCE ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM WELCOME TO MY BLUE SKY OUT APRIL 4TH, 2025, VIA POLYVINYL RECORD CO. / LUCKY NUMBER
Oscars nominees for Best Original Score
@sentomcotton: My message to obstructionist Democrats: Don’t make plans this weekend. We’re going to get President Trump’s nominees confirmed the easy collegial way, or apparently the hard way.
President Biden: It will take time to feel the full impact of all that my Administration has done. But the seeds we planted will grow and bloom for decades to come.
Rolling Stone: The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far
@randygdub: dems are gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'