Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.https://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mti22u7dtk2yThe alleged experts said it couldn't happen, but here we are: the great Lisa Walker from Wussy and I are headed out on a roving tour of venues ranging from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. Twinned icons, telling songs and singing stories. Don't miss out. Tix here! https://undertowshows.com/collections/lisa-walker-elizabeth-nelson20 Aug 2026 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti22u7dtk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mthicvttvc2cThe real heads can hang out afterwards and listen to me harangue Cohen about how much I loathe his Phillies. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthicvttvc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mtfqdjlmtc2uI find 'Linden Arden Stole The Highlights' to be the single most transporting song in the entire Van Morrison catalog. Part noir-mystery and part eulogy for a drinking man, gambler and pious believer, coded with language as beautiful as Joyce himself. A saint's fable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWuw8KgZRw&list=RD0xWuw8KgZRw&start_radio=119 Aug 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfqdjlmtc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mtflqh2pi22eAnd Depeche Mode was Billy Gibbons' big inspiration for 'Eliminator'. Two of the great boogie bands ever. May the circle be unbroken. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 01:35 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtflqh2pi22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mtcu5volzs26The Paranoid Style gang rode in Brooklyn on Saturday. Thanks to my band of stalwarts: Holsapple, Matheny, Langmead, Dawson, Mike V and Bracy. Also got to duet with my dear old friend Charles Bissell on "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Might not be many of these left. Such a night. 📸: Jack Silbert17 Aug 2026 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcu5volzs26https://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3msmsiyq54k2dEleven minutes ratifying his self-assessment as a literary and compositional genius, Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle” strips away the coy junkie-chic of so much bougie VU and refashions it as a pitiless tour through addiction's economic hellscape. Tramps like us. Sha-La-La. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LK9JjW2noo&list=RD4LK9JjW2noo&start_radio=109 Aug 2026 05:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmsiyq54k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3msj2ovsegc2kOn the occasion of the excellent new film 'Tony', the Ringer reposted an old essay I wrote about the legacy of "Kitchen Confidential" and the early, formulative years of the man who would become an unlikely global ambassador. https://www.theringer.com/2020/07/14/pop-culture/anthony-bourdain-kitchen-confidential-book-20-year-anniversary07 Aug 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msj2ovsegc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3msa2v7ozws2iLook folks, I can only say so much, but I can say this. August 15. Union Pool. The Paranoid Style. The Everymen. Special guests, old friends, new reckoning and the possibility that this could be the last time. Come see us, if you've got the gumption. Not dark yet. Getting there. tinyurl.com/5anj7j9t04 Aug 2026 03:25 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msa2v7ozws2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mroeilzxn22hTheir best '70s fetish records, Spoon’s ‘Gimme Fiction’ is eleven impeccably-imperfect pop songs whose admixture of mysterioso slow burns, stoner character studies and Freedom Rock workouts feel as nervous and caustic as vintage Stones. How insane it is getting older. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5nbJu6HG8&list=PL3qrKdp33Z6rsJj5AlZMJh4WocVr9XZUT28 Jul 2026 02:29 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mroeilzxn22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mrb3htmjxs2dOver at Lawyers Guns & Money, I interviewed the amazing singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook and the equally gifted filmmaker Katy Chevigny about their wonderful new cinematic collaboration 'The Easy Kind.' One of the best music business films I've ever seen. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/sometimes-it-takes-balls-to-be-a-woman-talking-the-easy-kind-with-katy-chevigny-and-elizabeth-cook22 Jul 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrb3htmjxs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mqs2f5mdyk22"Dylan had famously struggled to adjust to the evolving recording techniques of the digital age, a struggle clearly abetted by the additional problem that he simply didn’t give a shit." On my substack, recalling the miasmic charm of "Knocked Out Loaded". https://theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/driftin-too-far-from-shore-the-miasmic16 Jul 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqs2f5mdyk22https://bsky.app/profile/paranoiacs.bsky.social/post/3mqcq5weks22j"It's a sleek new machine comprised of old parts, 13 songs over 43 minutes of admirably crazed night-terror boogie, fleet-fingered car-crash jams, and haunted incantations." I had a blast reviewing the psych-addled new Jack White LP over at Pitchfork. A genuine corker! https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jack-white-frozen-charlotte/10 Jul 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcq5weks22j