Steven Hyden
@stevenhyden.bsky.social
The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. @uproxx culture critic. Host of podcasts living and Dead. https://stevenhyden.substack.com/
Wow the new Vince Gilligan is the first TV show I've been excited about for a while.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wow the new Vince Gilligan is the first TV show I've been excited about for a while.
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The Original Good "Bad" Album
Plus: The New Waxahatchee/MJ Lenderman Supergroup and RIP Donna Jean Godchaux
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November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The Original Good "Bad" Album
Plus: The New Waxahatchee/MJ Lenderman Supergroup and RIP Donna Jean Godchaux
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November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
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RIP Donna Jean | Never Ending Stories
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November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
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Reprising my morbid role as the official Grateful Dead Death Correspondent of NES!
I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
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RIP Donna Jean | Never Ending Stories
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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reprising my morbid role as the official Grateful Dead Death Correspondent of NES!
I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
www.patreon.com/posts/142910...
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RIP Donna Jean | Never Ending Stories
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November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
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Hey, it's a new Ask A Music Critic column! A reader inquires, "What is the first great indie album?" A simple question that inspired a complicated answer.
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Ask A Music Critic: What Was The First Great Indie Album?
Also: What’s another album that needs a ’making of’ biopic?
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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey, it's a new Ask A Music Critic column! A reader inquires, "What is the first great indie album?" A simple question that inspired a complicated answer.
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Hey, it's a new Ask A Music Critic column! A reader inquires, "What is the first great indie album?" A simple question that inspired a complicated answer.
uproxx.com/indie/ask-a-...
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Ask A Music Critic: What Was The First Great Indie Album?
Also: What’s another album that needs a ’making of’ biopic?
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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey, it's a new Ask A Music Critic column! A reader inquires, "What is the first great indie album?" A simple question that inspired a complicated answer.
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Current favorite song of all time
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Current favorite song of all time
Dick Cheney was a mid-brow pseud, he stunk.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Dick Cheney was a mid-brow pseud, he stunk.
This is so weird/funny. You're a Super Bowl-winning QB who's still in the league!
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This is so weird/funny. You're a Super Bowl-winning QB who's still in the league!
Really sad about this news. Todd has dealt with so much already, this just seems stupidly cruel. Sending best wishes to an American treasure.
Also: If you assault Todd Snider, that's a "go straight to hell" ticket right there.
Also: If you assault Todd Snider, that's a "go straight to hell" ticket right there.
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Really sad about this news. Todd has dealt with so much already, this just seems stupidly cruel. Sending best wishes to an American treasure.
Also: If you assault Todd Snider, that's a "go straight to hell" ticket right there.
Also: If you assault Todd Snider, that's a "go straight to hell" ticket right there.
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one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...
A good way to weed out the jerks in the Deadhead world is asking what they think of Donna Jean. I absolutely love her. An integral part of the all-time best Dead era. RIP.
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Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78
Donna Jean Godchaux, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead and provided vocals on an Elvis Presley hit, has died at the age of 78.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A good way to weed out the jerks in the Deadhead world is asking what they think of Donna Jean. I absolutely love her. An integral part of the all-time best Dead era. RIP.
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When rich people from LA win at the last minute.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
When rich people from LA win at the last minute.
Don't mute triumphant sports swears!
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Don't mute triumphant sports swears!
Haven't cheered this hard for Canada since Gord Downie's last show.
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Haven't cheered this hard for Canada since Gord Downie's last show.
Took a long drive while looking at fall colors and listening to this box set. Delightful!
November 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Took a long drive while looking at fall colors and listening to this box set. Delightful!
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The End Of Grantland, 10 Years On
Plus: Thoughts On The Springsteen Biopic and My Favorite Music Of October 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The End Of Grantland, 10 Years On
Plus: Thoughts On The Springsteen Biopic and My Favorite Music Of October 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I don't agree with this at all but it's a great piece of writing/criticism.
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'One Battle After Another' Isn't Up For The Fight | Defector
To paraphrase the late, great Prodigy, there are wars going on outside no one is safe from. They are cultural, political, racial, class-based, and literal. It’s increasingly difficult to shake the fee...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I don't agree with this at all but it's a great piece of writing/criticism.
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Very weird day. My main memory is the news leaking early and then going on Twitter and seeing people joke about us all losing our jobs 10 minutes before the conference call officially telling us we were all losing our jobs.
Grantland folded 10 years ago today. I'll never forget that morning.
I have a strange relationship with that time in my life. Sometimes, it feels like it all happened to a different person. But I'm so grateful to have been a part of that place. I know it’s the reason I'm here.
I have a strange relationship with that time in my life. Sometimes, it feels like it all happened to a different person. But I'm so grateful to have been a part of that place. I know it’s the reason I'm here.
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Very weird day. My main memory is the news leaking early and then going on Twitter and seeing people joke about us all losing our jobs 10 minutes before the conference call officially telling us we were all losing our jobs.
Toronto hasn’t done that well in LA since Rush played two sold out nights at The Forum on the MOVING PICTURES tour.
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Toronto hasn’t done that well in LA since Rush played two sold out nights at The Forum on the MOVING PICTURES tour.