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
The Daniel Lanois Trio played two nights at the Aeolian Hall in London, Ontario, an ancient and gorgeous venue a two-hour drive from Detroit that is apparently one of the top 10 halls in Canada, according to the CBC. It was an intimate space with great resonance and that is
Documentaries
if you love his music you should see this, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about you should definitely watch it.
Fandom
We all need to work to end the annoying habit of asking people at a concert how many times they’ve seen the artist.
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."