Patti Smith
The Patti Smith Group, August 2021: live music in the time of COVID
I'll know my song well before I start singing.
Caryn Rose
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.
Album Reviews
at the edge of the Sahara, Les Filles de Illighadad
This is how I remember traveling to the Sinai: you took the overnight Egged bus from Tel Aviv’s central bus station to Eilat, the port city at the very bottom of the country. Then, you took a local bus to the border. Once you got there, you cleared Israel
Book Reviews
girls together outrageously: the Lunachicks, Miss Mercy, & more
rebel girl you're the queen of my world.
Radio Radio
radio radio.
is there anybody alive out there?
Book Reviews
the girl in the red beret.
"I can make my own thing and be queen of it, instead of running after Joni Mitchell."
Newsletter
I can't see myself at thirty: R.E.M.'s "Out of Time"
o life.
Album Reviews
THE STOOGES, LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE, AUGUST 8, 1970
"We didn’t ask what was in the bag, we just snorted it."
New York Dolls
RIP to the Gem Spa
I wanna know.
Newsletter
full tilt boogie.
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
the Who
The Who, Madison Square Garden, September 1, 2019
Down at the Astoria / the scene was changing.
Pilgrimage
pilgrimage: we are stardust.
TRAFFIC UPTIGHT AT HIPPIE FEST
Album Reviews
Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive
Will the snake people please meet Peggy at the Information Booth