Eric Renner Brown
editing @ billboard
- RIP Bob Weir, the man whose voice I've heard more on record and in concert that any other. The prophet on the burning shore, a cosmic cowboy who stopped by Earth for a few decades to share his songs with us. A titanic loss, an immeasurable impact. The music will never stop. Rest easy.
- My favorite albums and songs – led by Geese's Getting Killed and Alex G's "Afterlife" – of 2025. Alphabetically listed, my essentials separated and bolded
- Wrote about some of my favorite songs of 2025 for @billboard.com's year-end list: Water From Your Eyes' 'Playing Classics,' Alex G's 'Afterlife,' Turnstile's 'Never Enough,' and Tyler, the Creator's 'Sugar On My Tongue' www.billboard.com/lists/best-s...
- Wrote about two of my favorite 2025 albums for @billboard.com's year-end list: Kaytranada and Geese. My colleagues didn't share my opinion that Getting Killed is far and away the year's best album, and CERTAINLY a 2025 top 10... but that's OK! www.billboard.com/lists/best-a...
- Wrote about the live return of one of the best: Tame Impala's show last night at Barclays Center www.billboard.com/lists/tame-i...
- A new Cardi B era is upon us – and @billboard.com's latest cover is an unmissable, wide-ranging interview with ever-colorful hip-hop star www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...
- Enough with the note-for-note re-records of old material. Need a Dylan album where he does barely recognizable reinterpretations of his most classic songs
- Wednesday has a new album out next month, and it's one of their best. Talked to 'em about it for @billboard.com's fall preview www.billboard.com/music/rock/w...
- Wild how immediately social media becomes way more grating when it's A-Certain-Someone Season again
- The way every post on The Other Site currently is about Edward Sharpe's 'Home' ... cooked
- In 2024, Harris and the Democrats decided that refusing to move an inch to the left, or to vocally defend trans people, or to condemn a genocide was worth risking this and myriad other catastrophic policies, and that's something we should never forget
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- Wrote about how Dead & Company reunited the Deadhead community in Golden Gate Park this weekend www.billboard.com/music/rock/d...
- Jerry's Travis Bean guitar really getting around this weekend
- Grahame Lesh playing Mission Control for 'Box of Rain,' Billy Strings leading a towering 'Wharf Rat,' and more highlights for @billboard.com from Dead & Company's first Golden Gate Park concert celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead www.billboard.com/lists/dead-c...
- Big Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows in San Francisco but without Steve Silberman feels wrong
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- In a just world, it's Fallon who would've been canceled, not Colbert
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- Listening to Phish on the way to the Alex G gig
- Ventured deep into the weird, wild GIZZVERSE for @billboard.com www.billboard.com/music/rock/k...
- When I worked at Pollstar, an OVG subsidiary, I was on many company-wide calls led by Tim. I wish I could say this news surprised me www.billboard.com/pro/tim-leiw...
- Days like today are why so many progressives and leftists were so upset in 2024 about Harris' half-baked, morally bankrupt campaign (and Biden's egotistical choice to remain in the race for so long). If Democrats lost the White House, it was going to have grave consequences and, well, here we are
- Please, someone make a sampler guide to this new Springsteen release, I can't be the only person who likes Springsteen but simply can't do several hours of archival material from him (or maybe I am, considering how many Springsteen fans are true obsessives)
- 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
- Wrote about Bad Bunny and Whatever The Weather for @billboard.com's best albums of 2025 so far list (though I should note that, love these as I do, they're not in my personal www.billboard.com/lists/best-a...
- When The Wizard of Oz lands at Sphere in August, audiences will hear it like never before – here's how the team behind the production updated the iconic film's audio for the state-of-the-art venue www.billboard.com/pro/sphere-w...
- Erics and Eriks can find common ground in thinking the spelling Erick is idiotic
- Loved talking with @thebanderson.bsky.social about his meticulously researched, deeply engaging new book – it drops tomorrow and is essential reading for any Deadhead! www.billboard.com/pro/grateful...
- German leader demands "immediate answers" following Night of the Long Knives
- Watching this video sickened my stomach, the manhandling of a United States Senator, Senator Padilla. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/a...
- Was curious what the Goose subreddit thought of my Goose article
- One option, if a widely beloved musician whose music you personally don't care for dies, is to simply not post about how you never cared for their music
- A day late: @rebeccamilzoff.bsky.social profiled Weird Al! A wonderfully zany look at his iconic career, ft cameos from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Samberg, Don McLean, John Mayer, Daniel Radcliffe and Clairo – one of my favorite stories I've edited at @billboard.com www.billboard.com/music/featur...
- Since Hamilton is trending again... eight years later, still the most trenchant critique of the troublingly hagiographic musical thebaffler.com/salvos/hamil...
- It has been – and continues to be – telling when since leaving office Obama has chosen to use his immense platform and influence, and when he hasn't
- Nuts to say 'Lollipop' isn't one of the 50 best Lil Wayne songs pitchfork.com/features/lis...
