Jonathan Bernstein
@jonbern.bsky.social
author, biography of justin townes earle senior research editor at rolling stone he/him https://jonbernsteinwriting.com/
Released 25 years ago today. This interview w/ Welch and Rawlings on the 20th anniversary of this monumental record is still one of my all-time favorite conversations I've ever had the honor to have: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Gillian Welch, David Rawlings Talk 20 Years Since Landmark Album 'Time (The Revelator)'
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings reflect on the making of Welch's 2001 album 'Time (The Revelator).'
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“Hansard’s music was about embracing wonder alongside restlessness, about letting in the light alongside the dark, about trying to sort out the beauty & pain that comes with it all being too much to take.” Remembering Glen Hansard 🖤 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Glen Hansard's Greatest Subject Was Life Itself
Our tribute to Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who was so much more than the guy from 'Once' and the Swell Season
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I tried to capture the magic and musicianship of Glen Hansard: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Glen Hansard's Greatest Subject Was Life Itself
Our tribute to Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who was so much more than the guy from 'Once' and the Swell Season
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great newport preview! www.boston.com/culture/musi...
8 must-see acts at Newport Folk Fest this weekend
Newport Folk Fest is Mother, as the kids say. (Do the kids still say that?) Yup, before Bonnaroo, Burning Man, or Coachella — heck, before Woodstock — there was Rhode Island’s Newport Folk: Mother of ...
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Bunch of big bands paying tribute to a band that deserves it. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Lumineers, Bright Eyes to Sing for the Felice Brothers on Star-Studded Tribute Album
'Felice County Fair,' a tribute album to the Felice Brothers, will include Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lumineers, Bright Eyes.
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New at No Fences Review: I go long on one of my favorite albums, Billy Bragg and Wilco's MERMAID AVENUE, on the occasion of the incredible performance I witnessed at the end of June. Please share and subscribe!
Plays of Our Lives: Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (1998)
Charles revisits one of his favorite albums, on the occasion of its first-ever live performance
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If you haven't, you should read @jeffgoodell.bsky.social's excellent book The Heat Will Kill You First. I don't know why I've been thinking about it a lot the past couple days ... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Extreme Heat Will Change the World As We Know It
The Heat Will Kill You First tells the story of Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung, who died on a scalding hike with their one-year-old.
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I devoted the better part of a whole chapter of my JTE biography on his close, complex friendship with David Berman; how moving to see these two books stacked side by side at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
I wrote a big thing about Justin Townes Earle — subject of a tragic and absorbing recent biography by @jonbern.bsky.social — as well as Jakob Dylan, currently on tour playing his most famous album, and the underrated billing of "journeyman." stevenhyden.substack.com/p/parable-of...
Parable of the Two Sons: Justin Townes Earle and Jakob Dylan
Also: A live scene report featuring Fiery Furnaces and new music by the sad-bastard British band Swim Deep
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"Why would we stick around, the job is done," one Knicks fan told me as we returned our rental cars.
Max Rivlin-Nadler@maxrn.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy flight got canceled. I got hit by an egg in a drive-by. I had to take trains, planes, and automobiles. But NOTHING could stop me from seeing the Knicks on Saturday night. I wrote about the greatest sports weekend I will ever have and a strange joy we all now feel. hellgatenyc.com/knicks-fans-...
The Mercury is looking for a Music Section Editor to join our staff. Are you a smart, thoughtful writer filled with passion, hustle, and the desire to share your love for—and critiques of—the Portland music scene? Yes? Check out our job listing! No? Tell your friends to check out our job listing!
Cool Job Alert: The Mercury is Hiring a Music Section Editor! - Portland Mercury
GREAT NEWS! The Portland Mercury is currently looking for a full-time Music Section Editor to join our small, dynamic, hard-working editorial staff. Are you a smart, thoughtful writer filled with pass...
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Any music-loving dads in your life who need a Father's Day Gift? Would he enjoy the story of a fiercely fraught, profoundly close father-son relationship? If so, I have the book for you!
"I have been watching every Finals game of this series in my own home, sober as OG Anunoby in a franchise-altering moment, too anxious to enter society."
giri nathan@girinathan.bsky.social · 2mo agowrote about a beautiful night observing my Knicks brethren after the Hand of God defector.com/one-euphoric...
Anthony Valles wanted to bring his 50-year-old dad back to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks’ first NBA Finals in 27 years. They made it this week. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/10/k...
He Borrowed $11,000 to Take His Ailing Father to See the Knicks at MSG
Anthony Valles wanted to bring his 50-year-old dad back to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks' first NBA Finals in 27 years. They made it this week.
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I’ve been really moved by how KAT’s public expression of grief has moved people during the Finals really poignant story today on that theme:
How Karl-Anthony Towns’ Grief is Helping Knicks Fans
“KAT knows the ones we love never really leave. So do we,” said a Brooklyn memorial space hosting New Yorkers on game day.
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Wrote about an indie band growing up, making their best work 20+years in, and trying to figure out how to exist in 2026. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Deer Tick Used to Be a Chaotic Party Band. Now They Run Their Business on Slack
Deer Tick's John McCauley talks about the band's new album, 'Coin-o-Matic,' going to rehab, and the band's embrace of Providence, Rhode Island.
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ICYMI I talked to the "Fish Hunt Golf Drink" songwriters about whether or not their song is AI www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Is Luke Bryan's New Song AI? We Ask the Songwriters
When Luke Bryan released his new song 'Fish Hunt Golf Drink,' some questioned if it was made by AI. We talk to the human songwriters behind it.
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Everyone accused the new Luke Bryan song of being AI-written (it's not). I called up the songwriters, who, it turns out, hate the idea of AI being anywhere in a writing room. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Is Luke Bryan's New Song AI? We Ask the Songwriters
When Luke Bryan released his new song 'Fish Hunt Golf Drink,' some questioned if it was made by AI. We talk to the human songwriters behind it.
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Had a lovely chat with Kurt Vile about family, home, safety, and guitar gods: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Kurt Vile Is at Home in the Universe (and Philadelphia)
Kurt Vile talks about his great new album, 'Philadelphia's Been Good to Me,' plus being "the working man's Neil Young" and more in our new interview
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NEW EPISODE! @emhilly.bsky.social interviews old-time music legend & “deviled egg queen” Alice Gerrard live at The Celebration of Women in Old-Time Music in Knoxville about her new @uncpress.bsky.social memoir Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
S2 Episode 5 Bonus: Alice Gerrard in Her Own Words (LIVE)
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · S2, E5 Bonus · 50m
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