Book Reviews
Music Book Reviews: Hit Girls, Dylan, This Woman's Work & More
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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
PJ Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying
PJ Harvey opens her new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, with “Prayer at the Gate,” a song that sounds like sunset and feels like vesper flights. Her voice is both spectral and muscular, and will lodge itself in a corner of your brain to swoop in and out
Tributes
unfinished notes on Mia Zapata
Can't do it on my own/Sometimes I need just a little more help
Newsletter
Thoughts on ... Steely Dan
STOWING AWAY THE TIME
Concert Reviews
Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe, Meadowbrook Ampitheater, June 28, 2023
speak up for beauty
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage, or: looking for ghosts
take our fortune
Newsletter
Taylor Swift's fandom: the kids remain alright
our psalms are sing-along songs
Remnants
remnants: an ode to the bodega that used to be at 13th St. & 4th Ave
why is it so hard to get a bacon egg and cheese
Tributes
River Deep, Mountain High
WE LOVED YOU, TINA.
Newsletter
On Warren Zevon, forgiveness, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
His hair was perfect.
Film Reviews
David Johansen: Personality Crisis, One Night Only
If I've got to dream / I'm a human being
Book Reviews
Some Notes On Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy Of Modern Song
Welcome To The He-Man Woman-Haters Club