Skip to content

Search

Subscribe

Sign Up for The Daily Good!

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.

Email

Email *

By subscribing, you accept beehiiv's Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. Our site's Privacy Policy applies.

Explore More

Upworthy shares the best of humanity every day through stories that remind us of what we all have in common.

Topics

Company

Connect

Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
YouTube
X

Ryan Reed

Ryan Reed is a contributing writer for GOOD residing in Knoxville, Tennessee who specializes in stories on music and pop culture. He has contributed to Rolling Stone, Relix, Revolver, SPIN and The New York Times.

Photo credit: YouTube screenshot from Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast / Canva (graphics) – The Beastie Boys smashed their own gold-record plaque and found something strange.

Culture

The Beastie Boys smashed their own gold-record plaque and made a weird, hilarious discovery

Ryan Reed

7/15/2025
Photo credit: Canva, asalastamayo from pixabay, cropped (left) / Carl Lender via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (right) – Freddie Mercury wrote a bouncy—but divisive—Queen song about his beloved cat.

Culture

Freddie Mercury’s cat inspired this playful Queen song that their drummer ‘hates’

Ryan Reed

7/14/2025
Photo credit: Canva, Aja Koska (left) / Canva, maxbelchenko (right) – Everyone should avoid being the stereotypical annoying people at rock concerts.

Culture

The 8 most irritating people at every rock concert and how to avoid being one of them

Ryan Reed

7/11/2025
Photo credit: Steve Knight via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, cropped (left) / 606kiwis via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, cropped (right) – Taylor Hawkins helped Jon Davison go from Yes tribute singer to joining the actual band.

Culture

How rock legend Taylor Hawkins helped a former Yes tribute singer join the real band

Ryan Reed

7/10/2025
Photo credit: Canva (cyano66), cropped with added text – A company accidentally left an AI prompt in a job rejection email.

Culture

Company accidentally leaves hilariously tone deaf AI prompt in person’s job-rejection email

Ryan Reed

7/9/2025
Photo credit: screenshot from MLB YouTube video – NSYNC won over a booing crowd with their national anthem at the 2000 World Series.

Culture

NSYNC silenced the boos with a stunning a cappella national anthem at 2000 World Series

Ryan Reed

7/7/2025
Photo credit: YouTube screenshots from’ Dharma & Greg’ scene via Joham ॐ Rojas – Bob Dylan once made a bizarre cameo during an episode of 'Dharma & Greg.'

Culture, Media

When Bob Dylan ‘jammed’ with fan Jenna Elfman on a goofy episode of sitcom ‘Dharma & Greg’

Ryan Reed

7/5/2025
Photo credit: Scott Penner via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, cropped (left) / Craig Carper via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, cropped (right) – Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl jammed with the legendary Prince—but under unusual circumstances.

Culture, Music

Dave Grohl’s strange, hilarious tale of jamming Led Zeppelin with Prince in an empty arena

Ryan Reed

7/4/2025
Photo credit: Raph_PH via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, cropped (left) / Bruce Baker via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, cropped (right) – A fan volunteered to play Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," but the cameo had a couple curveballs.

Culture

Green Day asked a fan to join them playing guitar on stage. He played ‘Wonderwall’ instead.

Ryan Reed

7/3/2025
Photo credit: Daniel Benavides via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, cropped (left) / Kevin Burkett via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0, cropped (right) – Ozzy Osbourne called T-Pain's cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" the best version ever.

Culture

T-Pain reimagined Black Sabbath in what Ozzy Osbourne calls the best ‘War Pigs’ cover ever

Ryan Reed

7/1/2025

«

1 … 13 14 15 … 23

»

advertisement

Advertisement

GOOD continues our mission to uplift humanity, build bridges across communities, and feature innovative solutions to critical challenges.

Company

Editorial Masthead

Upworthy (Sister Site)

Topics

© Copyright 2026

Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
X
YouTube