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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@colbert What joy this man has given us, throughout these absurd and dark ages. His wit has been a release valve after many a trying day. Here’s a cherished Late Show memory. Margaret Cho, joined by Ben Lee and myself. youtu.be/qYSfFSvuY58?...

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Margaret Cho Sings "Lice"

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Meanwhile, back here in Nashville. Hope you’ll join me, along with my guests, Daniel Tashian and Josh Rouse at the 5 Spot this Thursday. 6pm start. A tip o’ the hat the @nashvillescene.com for this spotlight! www.nashvillescene.com/criticspicks...

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Critic's Pick: Grant-Lee Phillips

6 p.m. April 9 at The 5 Spot

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

1 There are less than five hours remaining before the President of these United States, figuratively flips a coin, deciding to remain engaged in the hard work of digging himself out of this terrible thicket or to commit mass murder in our name.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

2 I resist the endless whirlpool of this man, his chaos and cruelty. But to come to this precipice, the world held hostage by an unchallenged madman, is difficult to grasp. Five hours.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Thank you for your attention to this blather.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“Dark Ages” from my latest album, “In the Hour of Dust.” This is a live solo-acoustic performance I tracked just this morning. Guitar, voice, piano. The bedrock of my writing, for the most part. Full length video on my YouTube channel.

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Grant-Lee Phillips - Dark Ages (Live in Studio)

YouTube video by Grant-Lee Phillips

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Out today, a great conversation for the Broken Record Podcast, recorded last September in Brooklyn. On this episode, Bruce Headlam talks to Grant-Lee Phillips about making In the Hour of Dust. Grant-Lee Performs “Last Corner of the Earth.

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Grant-Lee Phillips

Grant-Lee Phillips first made his name in the ‘90s as the frontman of Grant Lee Buffalo, a critically acclaimed band that released four albums and toured with Pearl Jam, the Smashing Pumpkins, and R.E...

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I’ll be sharing some songs in this impromptu fashion on my YouTube channel in the weeks ahead. A song from my most recent release, this is Closer Tonight (Live in Studio.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95...

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Grant-Lee Phillips - Closer Tonight (Live in Studio)

YouTube video by Grant-Lee Phillips

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thank you! What a gift to spend the evening with all of you.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today, August 4th, marks the release of Little Men. “Some the oldest and most enduring songs in the American Songbook are those that express the longing for freedom.” From the Grant-Lee Phillips album “In the Hour of Dust” out September 5, 2025 on @yeproc youtu.be/DWA0aFGNkYc?...

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Grant-Lee Phillips - Little Men (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Grant-Lee Phillips

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Anniversary to Brody, Quint, Hooper and Bruce. You ruined swimming for me but you touched my soul. 🦈

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“The measure of society is how it treats its weakest members.” Attributed to Jefferson, among many people, the authorship is lost to the ages. But the sentiment is not lost on anyone with a conscience. The attack on the disabled continues in New Hampshire. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Report: New Hampshire could ban funding for programs for disabled people

It's part of an anti-DEI attack.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” but you sure as hell need to know when a hurricane’s coming your way.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My god. What has happened to this country?

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The fight of our lifetime. Trump, and Musk are coming for our freedoms. Coming for our healthcare, social security, education, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits. We must and we will stop them.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A broken water main of lies. I’ve heard enough. This is the sorry state of our union.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is unconstitutional. Dangerous days.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Puzzling how so-called regular folks, blue collar “middle America” came to the conclusion that we should all be led off a cliff by elite tech bros from Silicon Valley. Is the “America First” they’ve been pining for because it seems like Trump First, or even Putin First.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Our country. Not Trump’s. Not that of the billionaires and sure as hell, not Putin’s. I refuse to believe that my fellow Americans will sit idly by for long. Trump, so desperate to bask in Putin’s shadow, has underestimated who we, the American people, are.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A powerfully moving proclamation of defiance from @marcelias.bsky.social Read the entire piece.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Worth revisiting. The film, Good Night and Good Luck. 2005. Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Important to note, a young Roy Cohn was the lead council to the defamed McCarthy. Cohn who would later defend and mentor Trump. Where are the Murrows?

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, or what kind of cars we’ll be driving. Come World War IV, we’ll be driving these…

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Truly stunned that Trump, so historically obsessed with public perception, would allow Musk to hold court in the Oval Office. Lumbering Musk in street clothes, black MAGA ball cap, kid in tow. A lethargic Trump slumped over his desk, like a lizard on a hot stone, mute and disengaged.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“The swiftness of things. Things we might take for granted, a building, even an ideal, something as tenuous and precious as Democracy itself. With that in mind, I wrote a song. This is called A Sudden Place.” 11:58 www.youtube.com/live/b94HhS5...

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Grant-Lee Phillips - Millennium Stage (April 3, 2024)

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“A song can remind you that even in despair, you are not alone, it can galvanize a movement. Give voice to the voiceless. Nearly a century since the early beginnings of Woody Guthrie, his songs and his words still ring true. This is called Deportee.” 50:36 www.youtube.com/live/b94HhS5...

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Grant-Lee Phillips - Millennium Stage (April 3, 2024)

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Students of history will recognize the unsettling parallel. “The Nazis’ denunciation of modern aesthetics extended not only to visual arts but to all aspects of culture, including literature, music, and film.” unframed.lacma.org/2018/05/16/%...

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

At this moment, unelected, unqualified, unvetted persons are rifling through the nation’s most sensitive information. Musk and his marauders make Nixon’s Plumbers look like vandals.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The demolitionists are toasting tonight, lighting the fuse, forgetting they’re inside the building.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thank you for a lifetime of celluloid dreams, for taking us into the haunting world of your radiator, your red draped sanctum, the bottomless coffee mug of your imagination. Sweetest of dreams, David Lynch

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My heart is with everyone in Los Angeles, all across Southern California, with all those whose lives have been struck by this incomprehensible tragedy. Seeing this news coverage of widespread destruction is simply heartbreaking.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I’m grateful for all my new followers here. I’ll have more news to share in the coming weeks and months but I’m pleased to say that my next album is well underway!

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Brace ourselves. Not just fruits, vegetables. “The largest categories of imported goods from Mexico are vehicles, electrical equipment and components, oil and gas, audio and video equipment, beverages, optical and medical equipment, and appliances.” www.investopedia.com/articles/ins...

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How Much Does the U.S. Import From Mexico?

Mexico is one of the United States top trading partners

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Man on the Inside. Hitting every note. Laughs, tears. Recommended.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just a few days here and I’m heartened to find a lot of the voices I’ve come to value over the years. It’s vital to stay informed, stay connected. Check in with friends. Pick up a phone. Remind ourselves that we’re not alone in this moment.

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Grant-Lee Phillips @grantleephillips.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Kicking off my move to Blue Sky with some celebratory news. Paste Magazine just listed Grant Lee Buffalo’s Mighty Joe Moon as the 19th best album of 1994 - good company! www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-a...

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The 50 Greatest Albums of 1994, Ranked

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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