Amanda Petrusich

Ella Langley, a twenty-seven-year-old country singer from Hope Hull, Alabama, with bangs so terrifically thick and ponderous they evoke dense, pre-thunderstorm air, recently broke a major

From the daily newsletter: the musician, who died today at the age of eighty, leaves behind a legacy of enormous warmth and tenderness.

Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Her criticism and features have appeared in the New York Times, the Oxford American, Spin, Pitchfork, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her book “Do Not Sell at Any Price” explores the obsessive world of 78-r.p.m.-record collectors. She is the writer-in-residence at New York University’s Gallatin School.

The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band's new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

In the summer of 2024, Nate Amos released a record called “Box for Buddy, Box for Star” under the sobriquet This Is Lorelei. (The name is a reference

The classic Oklahoma-born folksinger Karen Dalton released just two albums in her lifetime, but her estate recently emerged with a stack of song lyrics that she never got around to recording. These words were distributed to a handful of contemporary singers like Sharon Van Etten, Julia Holter, Marissa Nadler, and Laurel Halo, who put them to music.

The singer has been raunchy, folksy, psychedelic, Disney-clean. On her new album, “Bass Persuades,” she disappears onto the dance floor.

From the daily newsletter: our music critic on the pop superstar’s four new songs.

Miley Cyrus has been raunchy, folksy, psychedelic, Disney-clean. On her new album, “Bass Persuades,” she disappears onto the dance floor.

For years now, pop music has been suffused with a vague, or coded, malaise. It's increasingly evident that everyone feels dread and anxiety about