The Paranoid Style
@paranoiacs
This is the twitter account of Elizabeth Nelson. Bylines: The Ringer, Oxford American, N.Y. Times, Pitchfork and LG&M. Singer-songwriter in the Paranoid Style.
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As always, @paranoiacs is spot-on. Great piece on all those sanitized rock documentaries we're getting of late nytimes.com/2025/07/24/mag…
Terrific stuff as usual! I agree with your final assessment, though at times A Complete Unknown could've at least nodded to Dylan's frame of mind at the time as I wrote afterwards:
"Once you’ve heard about enough toxic behavior, the familiar pileups of sex and drugs start to feel less like a thrill ride and more like a dull narrative cul-de-sac." Over at the NY Times, I wrote about the new, less icky nature of music docs and biopics. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/mag…
I just read this while listening to the Roots album
"Two often overlooked, fractious, world-changing brothers had managed one last feat that had always seemed impossible: They had, for a time, become friends." Over at the WaPo, I wrote about Barry Mazor's great new Everly Brothers biography "Blood Harmony." washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/…
"Two often overlooked, fractious, world-changing brothers had managed one last feat that had always seemed impossible: They had, for a time, become friends." Over at the WaPo, I wrote about Barry Mazor's great new Everly Brothers biography "Blood Harmony." washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/…
For my show tonight on wrkc.kings.edu (7-9 PM ET) I shine a spotlight on the great Chris Stamey and feature tunes by @B_LambertMusic, James Barrett, @jimmymontague , @the_tisburys, @davidclowery, @paranoiacs and 19 others. You can stream from our site, so drop on by!
Agassi had a really good “I admire its purity” quote about Sampras in his book. The two ultimate dgaf deathmarch grinders were of course Vijay & Lendl. They didn’t burn out or question anything, just got old. Annika quit because she didn’t think she could get better.
Quite frankly, I LOVE it. Great piece. What does it really mean?
@LRubinson speaking of Scottie as we were...
Over at the Ringer, I wrote about the un-good vibrations and strange press conference that preceded Scottie Scheffler's most dominant major title triumph so far, at the Open Championship. He's getting stranger and stranger. He's getting better and better. theringer.com/2025/07/20/gol…
His press conference comments about fleeting satisfaction are spot on. Personally, I have never experienced any other sport that leaves you wanting so quickly after the conclusion, regardless of the outcome. And the hangdog description is spot on. He is an enigma to be sure.
Over at the Ringer, I wrote about the un-good vibrations and strange press conference that preceded Scottie Scheffler's most dominant major title triumph so far, at the Open Championship. He's getting stranger and stranger. He's getting better and better. theringer.com/2025/07/20/gol…
Scottie Scheffler’s week started with a press conference where he questioned his level of fulfillment in golf—and it ended with his fourth major victory, this one at the Open Championship. @paranoiacs: theringer.com/2025/07/20/gol…
Big news over at Paranoid Style HQ! We're excited to have joined the elite booking agency Atomic Music Group. Thanks Bill Hutchinson for making all this happen. Thrilled to be on a roster alongside all time heroes like the Blasters, Kelly Willis and my favorite group of all time.
Peter Holsapple's that kind of guy...we chat about his brilliant new LP, The Face of 68, on #label51, @wearethedbs reissues on @propeller_sound, @theSALTcollectv, @paranoiacs, Continental Drifters, #REM, @HootieTweets, #AlexChilton. linktr.ee/onlythreelads
All I had was a raft of songs and a few positive reviews when Bar/None Records first signed me. An unfinished product, but then that was always their way. Like Abba advised, they took a chance on me. Label manager Mark Lipsitz died today. Like so many others, I'll badly miss him.
It makes me cry and smile whenever I hear it. It's brilliant.
The saddest and most haunted of his great singles, Elvis Costello's 'Veronica' is by some metric the best rock song ever to lionize the elderly. Even the great 'Eleanor Rigby' carries some light condescension. Veronica is the hero of her own journey: half-remembered, nearly gone.
The most caustic LP ever recorded about the American temperament, Randy Newman’s ‘Sail Away’ is twelve gimlet sketches of losers, false prophets, con-men and everything else we tend to consider patriotic. You fly so high, yr. never gonna die. What a long, strange grift it's been.