Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 13/08/2025I am in @aquariumdrunkard.com today writing about Cass McCombs’s exquisite new record, as well as the city I live in and love 180
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 23/04/2025i know it was the 70s but it’s still wild that Dennis Wilson wrote an entire song about how much he loved doing statutory rape 351
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 23/04/2025this is the kind of sentence you love to stumble upon in the depths of Wikipedia pages for disreputable late era Beach Boys records 1100
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 21/04/2025Prior Lake, Minnesota Cohasset, Massachusetts North Tonawanda, New York whoever is handling booking for Al Jardine deserves a raise—no one in the game doing it like this 110
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 18/04/2025modern classic someone let me write the @stereogum.bsky.social 10 year anniversary post 010
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 26/03/2025- the boys - the Real Live guitar - 1968 painting featuring a nude woman with large breasts - the Masked & Anonymous suit 010
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 26/03/2025- uncanny reproduction of the debut album featuring Timothee Chalamet - Tour ‘78 crew jacket - unused concept art for 1981 Columbia reissue of Planet Waves - early draft of Slow Train Coming cover art 110
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 26/03/2025- Bob walking around Leo Tolstoy’s estate outside of Moscow c. 1985 - early draft of Brownsville (née New Danville) Girl lyrics - early draft of Tempest lyrics (written on Macedonian Holiday Inn stationary) - congratulatory telegrams from Billy Joel and Willie Nelson 100
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 26/03/2025- Mexican issue Tangled 7” (“Enredado en el Azul”) - Blood on the Tracks notebook - early draft of Archibald Macleish’s “Scratch” - Lenny Bruce’s phone number and address in Bob’s pocket notebook 100
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 26/03/2025Bob Dylan Center highlights: - Bob @ Letterman in ‘84 - various Jokerman 7”s - original Jokerman masters - draft of Infidels credits (including the mysterious phrase “Hip White Boy”) 1150
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 24/03/2025glad to be in @aquariumdrunkard.com today with a write up of the superb new Destroyer record and Dan Bejar easing into his late era 2243
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 19/03/2025happy one year anniversary to the Club Kokomo line of rums 🎉 020
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 10/03/2025The Beach Boys: ITS O.K. horny, hilarious, baffling, depressing—a viewing experience unlike any other 151
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 05/03/2025zero respect for the reunion records. a shameful miscarriage of justice 150
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 02/03/2025been waiting on this one for a long time and it did not disappoint 090
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 06/02/2025The Black Keys defiantly continuing their “Biggest Losers in Rock” campaign in 2025 160
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 06/02/2025back on our bullshit on Never Ending Stories: primo double-drummer hard rock jamband Bob circa late ‘92 salute to @stevenhyden.bsky.social for picking this beauty 140
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 03/02/2025pleased to announce Jokermen Podcast has raised $1600 for Los Angeles wildfire relief 1130
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 02/02/2025I am publishing a new monthly digest about my writing, my podcasting, and my ~fits~ on Substack 120
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 29/01/2025with all the podcasting i’ve done recently about ACU and 60s Bob, it’s been way too long since i listened to a not-particularly-good performance of Watchtower from the early 90s. feels like coming home ❤️ 050
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 29/01/2025New NES: DLB 002 // Bob Dylan LIVE, 11/4/1961 an historic subject on Never Ending Stories: Bob Dylan’s first-ever formal concert 110
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 28/01/2025i am in @gqmagazine.bsky.social again with an examination of Timothée Chalamet’s latest Bob Dylan-related hijinks 2140
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 27/01/2025i was honored to offer a few words about David Lynch in @aquariumdrunkard.com’s mondo tribute to the man, his life, and his art 140
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 11/01/2025what a week on NEVER ENDING STORIES: Paul Schrader AND James Austin Johnson talking all things Bob Dylan you won’t find better Bobtalk anywhere else — Don’t You Dare Miss It! 1111
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 02/01/2025i am in The New York Times today talking—what else?—A COMPLETE UNKNOWN 2111
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 31/12/2024this actually happened in the universe where Donald came out on the second leg of Rolling Thunder 240
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 27/12/2024i was pleased to offer a few ~takes~ on A COMPLETE UNKNOWN for @variety.bsky.social 260
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 22/12/2024crazy how Vampire Weekend made their best record ever this year and it’s getting virtually zero love on EOY lists 3100
Ian Grant @ianjgrant.com · 19/12/2024been banging this drum about Sara Lownds every time i talk about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN—glad to see Richard Brody nail it in his review lazy screenwriting, simple as! 240
