Brian Hiatt

I’ve been informed that there is now a Facebook impersonator trying to charge money for stories. I’ve reported them.

@azsweetheart013 @springsteen @tmorello Thanks Amy!

Great piece @hiattb Take a minute. @springsteen #Estreetband @tmorello

(With excellent photography by @sachalecca)

Wrote about a Bruce Springsteen tour rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

@williamctaylor Thanks Bill!

@hiattb Fabulous piece, Brian. The last line…oof

@billteck Thanks Bill!!

@hiattb Brain, this is such beautiful, beautiful writing - you captured what I felt and feel better than I could ever think or put it - thanks for your magnificent words

@HotGoatpants No it’s not. In live shows yes

@hiattb It’s actually a harmonica

Nearly every classic rock song has at least one insane choice in it that somehow works. Like, why does “Baba O’Riley” end with a random violin hoedown and why is that actually cool

tiktok (and short form content in general) has got to be causing some sort of literacy crisis. i just saw a video of an author who specifically made each chapter in her book no longer than 6 pages and everyone in the comments is thanking her because it’s “so much easier” that way

i restored a very rare bootleg live performance of D'Angelo, Groove Theory, and Stepchild performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco on November 16, 1995 during the Brown Sugar tour. Notable for featuring the only known recording of D'Angelo covering Curtis Mayfield's 'The Makings Of You', which you can hear in this video details in the comments

“Well in the universe of Lifehouse the character was going back to nature, thus a violin….”

@TheAFDPodcast Then he said it was only a couple of the riffs that axl rejected 🤷

@TheAFDPodcast Again, slash denied to me that he presented those riffs to axl until I reminded him he wrote about it in his book

This Day in Pitory: May 8th, 1995 - Opinion piece on Slash's Snakepit via the New York Daily News: "If Geffen packaged the exact same music with the GNR logo it would have sold twice that many copies in the first day. In other words, welcome to the bungle."

you'll never guess in a million years what kacey musgraves lyric jake shane makes her explain the meaning of.

The Radical Life and Surprising Reinvention of Steve Albini rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… via @RollingStone

As this story points out, Candace Owens has been a huge proponent of getting parents to refuse Vitamin K shots, an idea that is now killing babies. x.com/propublica/sta…

Imagine booktok learning about Philip Roth

the director of this video told me in 2009 that they tipped Michael’s hat low and used shadows on purpose to conceal the state of his face.

From George Packer's new profile of David Sacks: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

The guy described so contemptuously here has done more for his country than every leftist in Brooklyn put together