Book Reviews
Music Book Review: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly
What Pelly’s book does a fantastic job of uncovering is how Spotify just does not care about music.
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.
Concert Reviews
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI, March 8, 2025
they call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
Tributes
David Johansen: David Johansen
let's just dance.
Newsletter
Learning Songwriting with Brian Eno
"It all feeds you."
Tributes
For Marianne Faithfull.
side two. song four.
Fandom
Visiting the MC5 Inductee Exhibit at the Rock Hall
Staying alive with the MC5
Tributes
Double Dynamite: Sam Moore & Bruce Springsteen on the Asbury Park Boardwalk
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,
Radio Radio
"Good, occasionally poor," or: the mystery of the Shipping Forecast
The area forecasts for the next 24 hours.
![remnants: Patti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 [+ bonus downloads]](/content/images/size/w600/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-29-at-2.13.07-PM.png)
Patti Smith
remnants: Patti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 [+ bonus downloads]
She reminds us that 2014 is the Year of the Horse and we need to work and be free and be healthy and strong.
Newsletter
What I'm Reading: Newsletter Edition
I figured it would also be interesting to write about other things with words.
Bob Dylan
"A Complete Unknown" Gets It Right
This thing has a heart.
Documentaries
Deciphering "Beatles '64"
Disney+, the channel for normies to get access to Beatles rarities, is at it again.