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 Paranoid Style It makes me cry and smile whenever I hear it. It's brilliant.

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.

The Paranoid Style And what did the B-52s do to that poor lobster

Peter Holsapple's that kind of guy...we chat about his brilliant new LP, The Face of 68, on #label51, The dB's reissues on Propeller Sound Recordings, TheSALTcollective, The Paranoid Style, Continental Drifters, #REM, Hootie & The Blowfish, #AlexChilton. linktr.ee/onlythreelads

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.

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. The Paranoid Style: theringer.com/2025/07/20/gol…

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…

Lori Rubinson speaking of Scottie as we were...

The Paranoid Style Quite frankly, I LOVE it. Great piece. What does it really mean?

The Paranoid Style 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.

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 Brian Lambert, James Barrett, Jimmy Montague , The Tisburys / new album out now, David C Lowery, The Paranoid Style and 19 others. You can stream from our site, so drop on by!

"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/…

I just read this while listening to the Roots album

"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…

The Paranoid Style 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:

As always, The Paranoid Style is spot-on. Great piece on all those sanitized rock documentaries we're getting of late nytimes.com/2025/07/24/mag…

This is 100% on point, and just as true about the vanity docs you see about athletes and actors.

"Every catchy number is marked by linguistic specifics, and the title tune is a rock-biz masterpiece. Subject: 11 dead at a Who concert in Cincinnati, 1979. A." — Xgau on the Paranoid Style's 'Goddamn Impossible Way of Life,' six years old today. The best of our wilderness years.