Grant Sharples
@grantsharpies.bsky.social
Contributing writer/columnist at Paste • bylines in interview mag, stereogum, uproxx, pitchfork, ringer, LARB, mtv news (RIP), nme, etc • grant dot sharples at gmail • he/him • free Palestine 🇵🇸 • KCMO • I’m writing a novel bc it’s never been done before
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Grant Sharples
@grantsharpies.bsky.social
· Mar 27
The Story Of Every Perfume Genius Album Cover
From ’Learning’ to ’Glory,’ Mike Hadreas reveals the background behind all of his Perfume Genius album covers.
uproxx.com
Call it poetic. Call it kismet. My final piece for Uproxx is the same as my first: an interview with Perfume Genius.
Glory is out tomorrow, and I spoke with Mike Hadreas about the story behind every Perfume Genius album cover:
uproxx.com/indie/perfum...
Glory is out tomorrow, and I spoke with Mike Hadreas about the story behind every Perfume Genius album cover:
uproxx.com/indie/perfum...
Good morning, I wrote about aya’s hexed! for @pastemagazine.bsky.social’s No Album Left Behind series. It’s the best bad time you’ll ever have
No Album Left Behind: aya's 'hexed!' is a grotesque, anti-club concoction
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Good morning, I wrote about aya’s hexed! for @pastemagazine.bsky.social’s No Album Left Behind series. It’s the best bad time you’ll ever have
I’m not deleting that post because it got zero likes. I’m deleting it because I value the beauty that lies in the ephemeral.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m not deleting that post because it got zero likes. I’m deleting it because I value the beauty that lies in the ephemeral.
No one tells you that once you write a novel and query agents that it basically just feels like Applying For Jobs
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
No one tells you that once you write a novel and query agents that it basically just feels like Applying For Jobs
Finally watched the first season of Severance and I had a stunning realization: we live in a society
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Finally watched the first season of Severance and I had a stunning realization: we live in a society
People have already pitched and sent me so many cool books. This is so sick
Some exciting news: I am joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social as a ~contributing writer~ with two (!!) monthly columns: Audio Books (interviews with authors of music books) and Cover Me (interviews with bands about all their album covers). Cover Me starts next month. Audio Books starts in January.
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
People have already pitched and sent me so many cool books. This is so sick
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Release day bump! Read my review of the new Ragana / Drowse album for @pastemagazine.bsky.social while you give it a listen
Ragana & Drowse, 'Ash Souvenir' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Release day bump! Read my review of the new Ragana / Drowse album for @pastemagazine.bsky.social while you give it a listen
Release day bump! Read my review of the new Ragana / Drowse album for @pastemagazine.bsky.social while you give it a listen
Ragana & Drowse, 'Ash Souvenir' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Release day bump! Read my review of the new Ragana / Drowse album for @pastemagazine.bsky.social while you give it a listen
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Happy Birthday to Travis Barker!
🎂🎉🥂
🎂🎉🥂
I interviewed my childhood hero (!!!) Travis Barker about two of my favorite things: drumming and long-distance running 🥲
uproxx.com/music/travis...
uproxx.com/music/travis...
Travis Barker is turning fitness into philanthropy
The Blink 182 drummer talks running, rhythm, and giving back through his Run Travis Run 5Ks.
uproxx.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Happy Birthday to Travis Barker!
🎂🎉🥂
🎂🎉🥂
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Both ideas are fantastic!
Some exciting news: I am joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social as a ~contributing writer~ with two (!!) monthly columns: Audio Books (interviews with authors of music books) and Cover Me (interviews with bands about all their album covers). Cover Me starts next month. Audio Books starts in January.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Both ideas are fantastic!
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Yay and yay especially for the Audio Books column! Kudos
Some exciting news: I am joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social as a ~contributing writer~ with two (!!) monthly columns: Audio Books (interviews with authors of music books) and Cover Me (interviews with bands about all their album covers). Cover Me starts next month. Audio Books starts in January.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Yay and yay especially for the Audio Books column! Kudos
Some exciting news: I am joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social as a ~contributing writer~ with two (!!) monthly columns: Audio Books (interviews with authors of music books) and Cover Me (interviews with bands about all their album covers). Cover Me starts next month. Audio Books starts in January.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Some exciting news: I am joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social as a ~contributing writer~ with two (!!) monthly columns: Audio Books (interviews with authors of music books) and Cover Me (interviews with bands about all their album covers). Cover Me starts next month. Audio Books starts in January.
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Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
Reposted by Grant Sharples
I wrote this!
"Suffice it to say that the decade’s media landscape has been particularly Bruce-minded. Why all of this now?" @grantsharpies.bsky.social offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I wrote this!
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ICYMI, read one of my favorite things I’ve ever written :)
"This is the beauty of art, of sharing it. There’s always something different to be found within it." In light of the new biopic, @grantsharpies.bsky.social talks about Springsteen's legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
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Los Angeles Review of Books is a magazine and nonprofit dedicated to rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ICYMI, read one of my favorite things I’ve ever written :)
Reposted by Grant Sharples
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social I reviewed the new Ragana and Drowse collaborative album
Ragana & Drowse, 'Ash Souvenir' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social I reviewed the new Ragana and Drowse collaborative album
Reposted by Grant Sharples
"This is the beauty of art, of sharing it. There’s always something different to be found within it." In light of the new biopic, @grantsharpies.bsky.social talks about Springsteen's legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
Page Not Found | Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books is a magazine and nonprofit dedicated to rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"This is the beauty of art, of sharing it. There’s always something different to be found within it." In light of the new biopic, @grantsharpies.bsky.social talks about Springsteen's legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
ICYMI, read one of my favorite things I’ve ever written :)
"This is the beauty of art, of sharing it. There’s always something different to be found within it." In light of the new biopic, @grantsharpies.bsky.social talks about Springsteen's legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
Page Not Found | Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books is a magazine and nonprofit dedicated to rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ICYMI, read one of my favorite things I’ve ever written :)
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social I reviewed the new Ragana and Drowse collaborative album
Ragana & Drowse, 'Ash Souvenir' Album Review
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social I reviewed the new Ragana and Drowse collaborative album
Reposted by Grant Sharples
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote a personal essay on Bruce Springsteen’s music and its role in my wife’s family
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
Springtime for Springnuts | Los Angeles Review of Books
Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote a personal essay on Bruce Springsteen’s music and its role in my wife’s family
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
Thanks for reading 🙂
"its lyrical despondency (what’s that say about these times, huh!) and for its stripped-down sonics (similar to how stylish, hand-drawn animation feels less dated than “live-action” CGI in the ensuing years; this is a Disney subtweet)"
Bear in mind, someone was paid to write like this
Bear in mind, someone was paid to write like this
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thanks for reading 🙂
I wrote this!
"Suffice it to say that the decade’s media landscape has been particularly Bruce-minded. Why all of this now?" @grantsharpies.bsky.social offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I wrote this!
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote a personal essay on Bruce Springsteen’s music and its role in my wife’s family
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
Springtime for Springnuts | Los Angeles Review of Books
Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote a personal essay on Bruce Springsteen’s music and its role in my wife’s family
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...
Reposted by Grant Sharples
I enjoy Springsteen's music, though I'm not a ginormous fan. Even so, I really enjoyed this movie--both as a biopic about Springsteen as well as a film about what the creative process can and cannot do. I enjoyed reading this take on it.
"Suffice it to say that the decade’s media landscape has been particularly Bruce-minded. Why all of this now?" @grantsharpies.bsky.social offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/springtime-for-springnuts/
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I enjoy Springsteen's music, though I'm not a ginormous fan. Even so, I really enjoyed this movie--both as a biopic about Springsteen as well as a film about what the creative process can and cannot do. I enjoyed reading this take on it.
Reposted by Grant Sharples
Great stuff @grantsharpies.bsky.social, & in conversation with my recent @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on living in Bruce's America:
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/cons...
Considering History: We’re Living in, and Need to Live Up to, Bruce Springsteen’s America | The Saturday Evening Post
Two of the Boss’s earlier albums foreshadowed the worst of where America has gone over the last few decades, but also modeled crucial ways we can resist those trends and move closer to our collective ...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Great stuff @grantsharpies.bsky.social, & in conversation with my recent @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on living in Bruce's America:
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/cons...