
Chris Payne
Journalist at Freelance
writer / my first book WHERE ARE YOUR BOYS TONIGHT? is out now on @deystreet / repped by @Areubey
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Nov 26, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Chris Payne
(In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its choices for the Greatest Pop Star of every year, going back to 1981 — along with a handful of sidebar columns and lists on other important pop star themes from the period.
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Sep 3, 2024 |
billboard.com | Chris Payne
Knocked Loose frontman Bryan Garris is an ordinary-looking dude who screams all his lyrics. “I just can’t sing,” Garris tells me matter-of-factly. “I wish all the time that I could, but I probably wouldn’t utilize it for Knocked Loose. We just want to be an intense band.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
altpress.com | Chris Payne
Slipknot appear on the cover of the Fall 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. April 27, 2024: It’s been a long time since Slipknot felt this ferocious. Before the glow-stick Las Vegas skyline, nine boogeymen in red coveralls dart around the main stage of Sick New World Festival. Corey Taylor’s screams are tattered and raw, like his mask’s corpse skin and dangling dreadlocks. Guitarists Mick Thomson and Jim Root thrash and burn. DJ Sid Wilson — the gas mask guy — scratches into the chug.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
l8r.it | Chris Payne
Slipknot appear on the cover of the Fall 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. April 27, 2024: It’s been a long time since Slipknot felt this ferocious. Before the glow-stick Las Vegas skyline, nine boogeymen in red coveralls dart around the main stage of Sick New World Festival. Corey Taylor’s screams are tattered and raw, like his mask’s corpse skin and dangling dreadlocks. Guitarists Mick Thomson and Jim Root thrash and burn. DJ Sid Wilson — the gas mask guy — scratches into the chug.
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Aug 5, 2024 |
shepherd.com | Chris Payne |Lizzy Goodman |Legs McNeil |Gillian McCain
This book gave me a drive. Goodman’s account of the Strokes’ debaucherous rise in 9/11-era New York City ignited my passion for oral history and to tell the story of the music that made me. Downtown cool kid garage rock shaped popular culture immensely, but so did My Chemical Romance and their cohort (even more so, I’d argue). Up to this point (MMITB was published in 2017), 2000s emo was frequently misconstrued by those too old to have understood its impact or left out of the conversation entirely.
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