I’m Caryn Rose and I write about rock and roll & pop culture in places like Pitchfork, NPR Music, Variety, Vulture, Backstreets Magazine, and more. My most recent book is WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS.
Documentaries
I have a pathological need to identify every location in NYC that appears in a film or tv or random photo, so when the first shot of ONE TO ONE : JOHN & YOKO appears on the screen, out of focus, fuzzy, zooming in on a crowd of people, I immediately
Concert Reviews
He’s one of those people who was born to be onstage.
Patti Smith
My favorite element has always been figuring out what songs the artists decide they want to perform and how they interpret them.
Book Reviews
There is dirt. There is sex and drugs. There are internecine squabbles.
Book Reviews
I read "Heartbreaker" in three days. I didn’t want to put it down.
Book Reviews
What Pelly’s book does a fantastic job of uncovering is how Spotify just does not care about music.
Concert Reviews
they call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
Tributes
let's just dance.
Newsletter
"It all feeds you."
Tributes
side two. song four.
Fandom
Staying alive with the MC5
Tributes
In December of 2003, Bruce Springsteen once again returned to fabulous Convention Hall in beautiful Asbury Park, NJ for what had become a semi-regular tradition of benefit Christmas shows in his adopted hometown. Joining him were the Max Weinberg 7, the Alliance Singers, Steve Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, Southside Johnny,