Chris Payne
@cpayneonaplane.bsky.social
author, WHERE ARE YOUR BOYS TONIGHT: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion: 1999-2008, a McNally Jackson bestseller out now on Dey Street Books 📗 dolphins/diamondbacks/penguins https://linktr.ee/chris.payne
BROOKLYN! i am doing an event for my book EMO REVIVAL on 9/16 at Book Club Bar with @cpayneonaplane.bsky.social ! come hang and hear us talk about emo RSVP now bookclubbar.com/events/62128...
Author Event: Andrew Sacher's "Emo Revival" with Chris Payne | Book Club Bar
Independent general bookstore and full service cocktail and espresso bar in the East Village of NYC, serving handcrafted drinks in a cozy community space.
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This is surreal - I'm doing a book event at my old high school hang! Come out Saturday, Aug. 8 - I'll be in conversation w my buddy Greg Scalera - Greg's band Moraine toured w Paramore in their early days. Ask questions, hear stories, get your book signed! Come join us!
They had a copy of WHERE ARE YOUR BOYS TONIGHT in the window at the Chatham Bookseller so I had to come say hi and sign it. There’s hardly any hardcovers left, go grab this one in Madison, NJ!
THESE STREETS WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BRAND NEW
lindsey adler@lindseyadler.bsky.social · 3mo agogood morning new york city
Last Olivia Rodrigo album cycle, 31-year olds who liked her songs were getting cringe-shamed out of public life, so she went and made an excellent follow-up with a 67-year old man who loves cats
New book event announce coming soon… close to home… back where it all started…
Tilly Norwood’s most recent Instagram post, which is 2 weeks old, has 280 likes and 30 shares. No one other than reporters has any particular feeling one way or the other about Tilly Norwood.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoOur writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner interviewed Tilly Norwood, a computer-generated character described as “the world’s first A.I. actress.” She left exhausted. “It was the feeling of being at a computer all day. It was a dehydration of human interaction,” Brodesser-Akner writes.
I'd play them 10 hours of Angels & Airwaves
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoIf an alien landed and asked you: ‘What is music?’ what would you play for them?
This book connects the start of modern nightlife in 17th Century Japan’s high end pleasure districts to Moulin Rouge to Studio 54 NYC to LA in the y2K era. It’s a trip, I learned so much, and I got to blurb it! Go read Imogen Willetts’ UP ALL NIGHT out now —
Love this new Grace Ives, but really hope this is still in the set list tonight open.spotify.com/track/1zLP6d...
Shelly
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All the praise for new Drake is like, “it’s his best work, in years, at least since an album no one’s talked about since 2021, and also if you do not pay attention to the lyrics, and also you pretend it is a sexyy red song”
Some of the back cover of Billboard’s 1997 Book of #1 Hits has not aged so well
Happy american football day. Friday before the eagles - patriots Super Bowl they played acoustic in the billboard office. There’s an awkward silence between songs. Kinsella’s like “someone ask us a question.” Pause. He points at me. “Who’s gonna win the big game??” He said eagles.
My apartment's new management group knocked on my door to introduce themselves while I was blasting "she blinded me with science"
Moment of zen. NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras and zodiacal light is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
Worth keeping in mind that often people seen as leaders in your field lead lives that seem truly miserable
Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day
The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated.
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pros of collecting used CDs: sometimes you get a surprise autograph
Mitski opening her tour with a surprise show at STARLAND BALLROOM, confirmed emo again
