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Grant Sharples
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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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Hayden Pedigo put on one of the most breathtaking performances I’ve seen in a while
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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It is Friday
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Ab-Soul hearing the line “dot thebe and me that’s big three”
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November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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It’s Friday
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I thought this was Matt Berninger at first
Seth rogen for GQ
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Personal news:
I caught them all in Pokemon Legends Za
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The Saturday morning pairing
Ben Ratliff’s Run the Song and Autechre’s Amber
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The week
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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My friend gifted me all of Autechre’s ‘90s albums on vinyl so I am now listening to them for the very first time
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Oh you’re posting a 4x4? Sorry, I love music more and listen to more of it, so I’m posting a 5x5
Last fm 5x5
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Determining whether an album should be placed at 22nd or 23rd on my AOTY ballot
Stressed guy
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Life of a Showgirl-ass lyric
No Reply Tame Impala You're a cinephile, l watch Family Guy
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I also have a blurb in here on OutKast’s Stankonia
When Outkast's Stankonia arrived on Halloween 2000, André 3000 and Big Boi were outcasts no more. Ubiquitous hits like "Ms. Jackson" and "So Fresh, So Clean" launched the Atlanta rap duo to astounding new levels of fame. Their fourth record wasn't just a simple retread of old ideas, though. Its first proper song, "Gasoline Dreams," was the group's most overtly political track yet, with Dre's incendiary hook backed by industrial, noisy drums. The Rage Against the Machine-inspired "B.O.B" cranked up the BPM, injecting their typically laid-back, pocket-heavy beats with a hyperactive bolt of energy akin to a child after a successful night of trick-or-treating. Given that Stankonia went Platinum five times over in the United States, the rappers probably felt like that child themselves. —Grant Sharples
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Wrote about my favorite album of all time and the 49th best album of the century so far for the new @pastemagazine.bsky.social list

www.pastemagazine.com/music/greate...
M83. Music critics love to call albums "cinematic." In the case of M83's 2011 double HurryUp, We reDreaming. album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, I can think of few descriptors more fitting. It speaks volumes that Anthony Gonzalez, the mastermind behind the indie-pop project, subsequently scored several films, from Tom Cruise's Oblivion to his brother Yann's more outré works like You And the Night and Knife +Heart. Previous M83 records such as Before the Dawn Heals Us and Saturdays = Youth demonstrated Gonzalez's capacity for creating songs that felt colossal yet lived-in. Inspired by Smashing Pumpkins' own double LP Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Gonzalez leaned into the most capital-E Epic and Emotional qualities of his music. There's the orchestral splendor of "Echoes of Mine" and Outro;" the John Hughes-channeling romanticism of "Reunion" and "Steve McQueen;" the heart-on-sleeve poetics of "Wait" and "Intro;" and, of course, the infectious ubiquity of "Midnight City," a bona fide perfect pop song that sees Gonzalez taking his voice to new, nearly unrecognizable limits. "I have to embrace the fact that my voice is unique, no matter what I think about it," he once told me about making the album. "It's my voice, and the combination of my voice and my music is going to make the project singular." Aided by co-producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, who has worked with everyone from Beck to Deafheaven, the French synth savant decamped to Los Angeles and drew from that city's infatuation with dreams, grandeur, and beauty to construct a record more towering than the buildings composing its skyline. Even in a catalog full of them, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is M83's most cinematic album to date. —Grant Sharples
October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Grid day bay bee
Last fm 5x5 Ekko astral in no 2 spot and electric Nebraska in no 1
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Wrote about Beach House’s Bloom for @pastemagazine.bsky.social’s list of the best albums of the 21st century so far
Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's third album as Beach House, 2010's Teen Dream, transformed them into indie darlings, and their music appeared in everything from Zooey Deschanel's twee-V show New Girl, a Guinness ad, and generational anthems from The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar. Although Teen Dream was a level-up in terms of songwriting (catchy choruses!) and production (live drums!), its bigger, bolder follow-up, 2012's Bloom, matched those upgrades with its mountainous scope and luxuriant sonics. Early cuts like "Myth" and "Lazuli" set the stage for what soon follows with gauzy guitars and booming drums, and both songs have become expected characters in the Baltimore duo's live sets. Daniel Franz's rollicking toms on "Wild," augmented by co-producer and indie mixing legend Chris Coady, were designed to be heard in wide-open festival fields. "Irene" ends the album with a comparable level of majesty; a fuzzed-out, one-note riff, chromatic guitar leads; Legrand's lilting legato; and, after several minutes of silence (or a groove that infinitely repeats until you manually move the needle on the vinyl edition), the extravagant hidden track "Wherever You Go." On Bloom, Beach House firmly cemented themselves as dream-pop mainstays, undoubtedly among the most influential indie bands to emerge this century.
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I love @ekkoastral.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Ran my first half marathon :)
2 hours 9 minutes for my first half marathon according to my app :)
October 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Featuring an album I thought was Not Good
Last fm grid
October 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Still pinching myself and will be for who knows how long
Texts with Travis barker who said he’d run a half marathon with me what
October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Has anyone here listened to music before?
Last fm week
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I listened to music in September
Last fm 5x5
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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They’re calling 2025 the year of the pitchfork 9.0
Geese - getting killed Joanne Robertson - blurrr Dijon - baby! Aya - hexed!
September 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I love the new Nation of Language album
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September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I went to the poppy show just to see MSPAINT
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM