Eric Renner Brown

Alien Metal is out now – and I got the scoop about it from King Gizzard's Stu for @billboard.com, woo! www.billboard.com/music/featur...

There's a new way to listen to the Grateful Dead: Play Dead, a nugs subscription service that brings the band's prior archival releases – and tons of exclusive new ones – to high-resolution streaming. More about the news ft @davidlemieux.bsky.social & the team www.billboard.com/pro/grateful...

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.

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

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

Wrote about how Dead & Company reunited the Deadhead community in Golden Gate Park this weekend www.billboard.com/music/rock/d...

Solid, well-informed, and finely-penned rundown by @erbrown.bsky.social 👇

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

Answers questions about Gizz as a jamband (namely it’s impossible since they are Australian). Great insights from Jello Biafra as well.

In a just world, it's Fallon who would've been canceled, not Colbert

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A choice nugget from a solid piece. Somehow the "are they/aren't they" question still does not feel definitively settled. (For the record, I don't care if they're called a jam band, just keep being excellent to each other at the shows.)

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...

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

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

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...

Yes! Yeeeessss let's goooo “The connection between the four of us is amazing,” he says. “It feels like the most connected the band has ever been. The way we’re able to communicate, and things like that — it does, to me, feel unprecedented. It feels like we’re catching a new wave.”

Wrote about Goose as the band flirts with mainstream rock stardom www.billboard.com/music/rock/g...

Even after her uncalled for dig at Zohran during the debate, I was still planning to rank Ramos. But now, she's endorsed Cuomo, even after railing against him for months. Such a disappointment