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Chris Payne
@cpayneonaplane.bsky.social
author, WHERE ARE YOUR BOYS TONIGHT, a McNally Jackson bestseller out now on Dey Street Books 📗

music journalist, Stereogum, Billboard, Vulture, the Ringer etc.

dolphins/diamondbacks/penguins

https://linktr.ee/chris.payne
Fist pumped at the sight of this SLIPKNOT QUESTION in Learned League yesterday
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I knew someday this quote from my book would go to good use
September 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
MCR we're doing this again in 2026!

Also, Jimmy Eat World home town stadium show 🥹
September 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Goin to the chappell
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you were gonna wear a deftones shirt to Chappell roan this is definitely the one
September 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Go get @chrisdeville.bsky.social’s awesome new book, which features (I think?) my first cover blurb!
September 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You gotta hand it to em
September 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Where were you when My Chemical Romance covered “Livin On a Prayer”???
August 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Where were you when My Chemical Romance got the key to the city???
August 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
So This Is the Jet Black New Year
August 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
THESE GUYS
August 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
new Hayley Williams video cc: our favorite music video tropes account @ownsongkaraoke.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
RIP Ozzy. I’ll always have Bert McCracken telling me what it was like on the set of your show.
July 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hootie and the Blowfish “Fairweather Johnson”… cannot stress how much this looks like a Midwest emo release
July 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Going through old cds & vinyl… gonna see how many @shadowtodd.bsky.social Trainwreckords I can find. We’re off to a good start:
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I love studying the animal kingdom
July 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
working on something here
May 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
we did it!
April 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s Independent Bookstore Day & I want to shout out P&T Knitwear in Nolita, NYC. Wonderfully curated selection, cool design & a public restroom for all, both v convenient & shows they care about the community around them. They were the 1st store to do an event for my book & I’m eternally grateful!
April 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Media like NYT is dangerously unprepared for what is probably coming... Trump doesn't give a fuck about the constitution & I'm not betting on the Supreme Court to hold him to it
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
march grid marching on in
March 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
can’t wait to dig into this one

(one of my favorite & first interviews for “where are your boys tonight”!)
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Good night
March 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
me + my february grid
February 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
For today's episode, Leslie & I are starting a new series!

First 5 bands:

Fountains of Wayne
The Sounds
Saosin
The Anniversary
Phantom Planet

Each had hype, each had their moment, but didn't go BIG the way many hoped.

We used our insider intel to explain why.

Listen! linktr.ee/desperatefor...
February 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM