Jonathan Bernstein

author of justin townes earle biography ||research editor @rollingstone ll he/him

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

My biography of Justin Townes Earle is out today! You can pick it up wherever you buy books!

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

"Do you want the old New York? Well, here it is."

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

I spent time with Nirosta Steel during a very interesting moment in his life

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

men will literally sing DBT's 'Hell No, I Ain't Happy' instead of going to Dialectical Behavior Therapy

[Josaleigh Pollett @brosaleigh]

Every time I see anything about DBT therapy I’m like hell yeah the drive by truckers ARE therapy

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

Well put!

[David Ramsey @ArkDavey]

AI is nightmare for fact checking precisely bc of recursive quality of its engagement w/existing information (info that will increasingly come from other LLMs). Human fact checkers can already fall victim to one human's past error. At scale, errors become more widespread/sticky.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Garifuna Music’s New Guardians

Meet the young artists and musicians who are preserving Garifuna traditions — and making sure their sounds and culture are reaching the rest of the world.

Read: https://t.co/fwyy9z6n0b

[Nashville Scene @NashvilleScene]

The Scene's annual Best of Nashville issue has landed! Check out all of the 2026 readers' poll and writers' choice winners now. Illustration by Katie Turner. https://t.co/4awKOdgQaS

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

Ordering Chipotle always hits…but dawg eating at Chipotle is a spiritual experience

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

@eddy_sarah @indyweek instant click!

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

Next release from Phoebe Bridgers will be a cover of "Life in the Dark" on this star-studded Felice Brothers tribute album.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

The Lumineers, Bright Eyes, and Brandon Flowers will cover the songs of the Felice Brothers on a new tribute album.

Read ↓ https://t.co/cosJEDfYDH

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

This beautiful book by @muzicdoc2 is out today. Go buy it!
https://t.co/N6ohw3GCY6

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

This one's a must-read

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Songwriter Nat Myers Has Stage IV Cancer. He Just Wants to Play His Next Show

"Death didn’t give me a hug, but it winked at me a bunch,” says the blues troubadour, who is navigating his diagnosis and the healthcare system in an attempt to return to the road.

Interview: https://t.co/7Z2DDJhWOo

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

@KatieChow binging the rehearsal does sound mildly scary psychologically. but nathan for you is very bingeable!

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Disco, Drag Queens, and Hairspray: Miranda Lambert Is Ready to Party

“I don’t know if there’s a more joyful place on Earth than a drag brunch,” says the Grammy-winning country singer, who sells good vibes on her new album, 'Crisco.'

Interview: https://t.co/n9J9rPlaw2

[Cheyenne Roundtree @cheyenne_round]

For the past two years, I’ve been working on a book about Sean Combs. It comes out today.

I grew up in the Diddy era. I never necessarily considered myself a Sean Combs fan but “Shake Ya Tailfeather” and “Bump, Bump, Bump” played on repeat on my iPod; Making the Band helped shaped my current dependency on reality TV; I used my tip money from hosting at Bangkok Gardens in college to splurge on Ciroc vodka because it seemed cool; a photo of him lazily sprawling on a hotel bed talking on the phone in a bathrobe was my Twitter header; an ad for his 2023 album was spray-painted on my sidewalk in Brooklyn.

When Cassie made her seismic allegations, it forced me to reckon with the man whose influence had quietly been a presence throughout my life. I couldn’t shake the idea: who is Sean Combs?

This book, speaking with more than a hundred people who knew him, worked for him and entered his orbit over the past three decades, aims to answer that question. It asks you to hold two truths at once: the cultural weight of what Combs has built and the harm hidden beneath it. I hope you’ll read.

https://t.co/Hb7neeLFpT

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

.@iannoemusic Dropped One of Roots Music’s Best Albums. Then He Disappeared

The Kentucky songwriter finally returns with Canyon Falls Trailer Band, an opus of an album he describes as "Appalachia Sgt. Pepper."

More: https://t.co/EvSLKgutBf

[Brian Hiatt @hiattb]

NEW: Dolly Parton's final vocal recording is a duet with Bono on the just-announced U2 album. Here's what Bono and the Edge told me about it. https://t.co/GdOAJ6hlcE

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

So terribly unfair, sending all my love to her family. NPR culture editor Rose Friedman dies at 38.
https://t.co/CxAKE9vtku

[Bloodshot Records @BSHQ]

It’s the 15th anniversary of Harlem River Blues and we’re hard at work on a special new version from Bloodshot Records:

More music from Justin Townes Earle.
Unseen photography from Joshua Black Wilkins.
New liner notes from Jonathan Bernstein.
Blessed by Jenn Marie Earle.

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

@emmaalpern lmao

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Ten years ago, a wave of protest took over professional sports. While some were remembered for their actions, others had to build new lives https://t.co/Mm0AG5isUO

[Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern]

Extremely hard to read this

[Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @AlisonKodjak]

A devastating look at how the @MLB looks the other way as little boys in the Dominican Republic are churned through baseball mills, exploited and ripped off as they try to lift their families out of poverty. @ggarciaroberts @davidortiz @propublica https://t.co/XvT8VygTUU