My name is Ian Grant, and this is Hard Disk.
Some of you may know me from my podcasts Jokermen and Never Ending Stories. You may have also seen my words in print at places like GQ and Aquarium Drunkard.
Hard Disk serves as a home base for all my goods both inside and outside the world of Good Music. Expect original writing on music and menswear, interviews, and a weekly newsletter. At present, Hard Disk posts are primarily free, but certain featured pieces are available only to paid subscribers. Do consider subscribing.
Below, you’ll find a semi-complete list of my bylines and media hits in other outlets.
Bylines
2026
Flagging Down The Double E’s :: Two Nights in Berkeley (6/15)
Aquarium Drunkard :: What’s There That Isn’t There: Avey Tare & Geologist on “Croz Boyce” (5/19)
GQ :: Bob Dylan’s Mysterious AI Experiment: Something Is Happening Here, But We Don’t Know What It Is (4/10)
Aquarium Drunkard :: The Beach Boys — We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (2/10)
Aquarium Drunkard :: It’s Common Knowledge I’ve Been Doin’ Alright: Dan Bejar on Destroyer’s Rubies at 20 (1/7)
2025
Aquarium Drunkard :: Cass McCombs — Interior Live Oak (8/13)
Aquarium Drunkard :: Destroyer — Dan’s Boogie (3/24)
GQ :: Timothée Chalamet Pulls Off Three Curveball Dylan Covers on Saturday Night Live (1/27)
2024
GQ :: Positively Bob’s Tweets (12/12)
Aquarium Drunkard :: Christopher Owens — I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (10/14)
Aquarium Drunkard :: The Same Man: Bob Dylan’s “Shot of Love” (8/14)
Flagging Down The Double E’s :: Last Night at The Gorge (8/11)
Aquarium Drunkard :: This Place Don’t Make Sense To Me No More: Bob Dylan’s “Street-Legal” (6/18)
Aquarium Drunkard :: Little Wings — High On The Glade (6/4)
Aquarium Drunkard :: Real Estate — Daniel (2/23)
2023
Aquarium Drunkard :: A. Savage — Several Songs About Fire (9/27)
Quotes/Appearances/Etc.
2025
Flagging Down The Double E’s :: Last Night in Tulsa (3/25)
GQ :: How Timothée Chalamet’s Freewheelin’ Press Tour Fashion Rewrote the Hollywood Style Playbook (3/2)
Aquarium Drunkard :: Lynch People: Remembering David Lynch (1/27)
Canadian Broadcasting Company :: Does Bob Dylan's life defy the biopic format? (1/3)
The New York Times :: What Do Dylanologists Think of ‘A Complete Unknown’? (1/2)
2024
Variety :: ‘A Complete Unknown’ Fact vs. Fiction (12/26)
The Los Angeles Times :: The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies in L.A. (8/30)
Variety :: Bob Dylan Experts Embrace Timothée Chalamet and Praise His Singing Voice After ‘A Complete Unknown’ Trailer (7/30)
Racket :: Should Minnesotans Claim Bob Dylan? We Asked an Outside Expert. (1/18)
2023
The Los Angeles Times :: The summer’s sexiest film, a Bob Dylan oddity and more to see in L.A. this week (8/4)
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