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Jonathan Bernstein

@jonbern.bsky.social

research editor at rolling stone/writing a book about Justin Townes Earle. he/him https://jonbernsteinwriting.com/

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you know a journalist is cooking when they include a "(more on that later)" parenthetical in the first section of their profile.

06.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the one Lolla recap I think is really worthwhile

05.08.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Public Enemy HITS the Newport Folk Fest - coverage by Rolling Stone

Photo of Flavor Flav and Chuck D at Newport Folk Fest

Photo of Flavor Flav and Chuck D at Newport Folk Fest

Newport Folk Fest X Rolling Stone X Public Enemy
@chuckdpe.bsky.social

28.07.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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01.08.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flaco JimΓ©nez, Global Tejano Music Ambassador, Dead at 86 Flaco JimΓ©nez, the famed Tejano accordionist who played with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, has died at 86.

RIP to a true musical legend
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01.08.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

heck yea! whole new album rules!

30.07.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Snipe Hunter’ by Tyler Childers is an Appalachian revelation By Stephen Baldwin, RealWV It’s Friday night in Lewisburg, WV. My wife and I are getting dinner from the local Chinese buffet. They’ve been serving the s

Beautiful writing here on Childers:
"GQ calls it 'the most visionary country album of the year.' Rolling Stone gave it 4.5 stars. But more importantly to me–and probably to Childers–my friends in the hollers of West Virginia give it a grin."

therealwv.com/2025/07/29/s...

29.07.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

fascinating!

29.07.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newport Folk Festival 2025: The Best Things We Saw Luke Combs, Public Enemy, Big Freedia, Jack Antonoff, and more performed at Newport Folk Festival 2025. Read our recap of the weekend's best sets

Thrilled to have images from @newportfolk.bsky.social run alongside @jonbern.bsky.social's @rollingstone.com coverage! Check out the article and some of my images here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

28.07.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Patty Griffin: A Love Letter in 16 Songs Charles on a few songs by an artist we love

New at No Fences Review: to celebrate the release of Patty Griffin's new album, I talk about a few of my favorite songs by this great artist. As always, there are many others that I could have included. Please share and subscribe!

25.07.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Photos by the great @sachynmital.com

28.07.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newport Folk Festival 2025: The Best Things We Saw Luke Combs, Public Enemy, Big Freedia, Jack Antonoff, and more performed at Newport Folk Festival 2025. Read our recap of the weekend's best sets

2025's Newpot Folk: Public Enemy, Luke Combs goes acoustic (mostly), everyone covers Dylan, and a few artists speak out:

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

28.07.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Tyler Childers Takes Big Risks and Reaps Huge Rewards on 'Snipe Hunter' Tyler Childers 'Snipe Hunter' Review

Reviewed my favorite album of the year
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

25.07.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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How Tyler Childers Made the Most Visionary Country Album of the Year He’s an arena-filling Nashville outsider who wrote a Black Lives Matter anthem and put a gay love story in a music video. Now, fresh off a pilgrimage to India, he's releasing his spiritual and artisti...

Ya goddamn right I’m flexin’! (It’ll make sense I promise)

www.gq.com/story/tyler-...

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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

Don't know who made this, but thank you. adoptastation.org

23.07.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ozzy and Me: How I Got to Know the Real Ozzy Osbourne How Ozzy Osbourne forged a special relationship with one 'Rolling Stone' writer

No one I'd rather read on Ozzy than the great Kory Grow:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

23.07.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

career goal accomplished: having one of my stories posted in "celebwivesnash2" subreddit.

16.07.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

thank you!

15.07.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learned a lot myself just hearing what Amanda has learned these past few years!

15.07.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amanda Shires Is Finally Ready to Talk About It Amanda Shires has announced her new album 'Nobody's Girl' with the single 'A Way It Goes.'

Talked to Amanda Shires about her new album and long last couple of years.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

15.07.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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next night's annotation is also superb

14.07.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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all-time setlist.fm annotation

14.07.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

β€œCalifornia is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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SCOOP: Sources Suggest Zohran Mamdani May Have Exaggerated Results On Sit-And-Reach Test, Calling Into Question 7th Grade Presidential Physical Fitness Test Honors

08.07.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this is true.

02.07.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Indie-Rap Hero Inspired Zohran Mamdani to Enter Politics Indie-rap hero Heems on inspiring Zohran Mamdani, Democratic nominee in New York's mayoral race, to go into politics: 'I’m extremely grateful'

The @nehrujackets.bsky.social legacy is fixing our food deserts with a city-run combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell in every borough www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

01.07.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

All of this is gold. And I love @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social even more now.

(I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.)

01.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

an all-time classic.

01.07.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks man!

01.07.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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and Heems, in classic form, on Eric Adams:

01.07.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

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