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Peel Slowly And See
The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions at the Warhol
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.
Tributes
Robbie Robertson, 1943-2023
the music comes from the land.
Newsletter
Nuggets at 50: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
it's a nugget if you dug it!
Remnants
remnants: Primavera Sound, 2017
Van Morrison, the Damned, the Afghan Whigs, Japandroids & more
Dulli
the Afghan Whigs: I'll be waiting for you / at Fountain and Fairfax
The Sound of Young America
Book Reviews
Music Book Reviews: Hit Girls, Dylan, This Woman's Work & More
dear sir or madam
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
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Taylor Swift's fandom: the kids remain alright
our psalms are sing-along songs