journalist and critic ➖ @pitchfork etc ➖ author "the raincoats"
Joined July 2008
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18 Nov 2022
my last tweet?? ok here’s a pic of me interviewing the velvet underground & todd haynes last year lol
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every once in a while I have to remind the universe about the time Courtney Love asked how old I was (24) and then was like "Oh god. You don't even know what the 90s were like" pitchfork.com/features/inter…
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for this massive NYT Mag project, i interviewed patti smith, erykah badu, johnny marr, george clinton, gillian welch, berry gordy, stevie nicks, terre roche, fka twigs, mary chapin carpenter, sheryl crow, pusha T, alynda segarra & many others … enjoy!
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some others i interviewed: cecile mclorin salvant, meshell ndegeocello, natalie hemby, victoria monet, amy allen, beth orton, killer mike. i did not weigh in on the list itself
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Apr 25
Kevin Morby had never left Middle America when 18 and Dylan-pilled, he boarded an eastbound train with $600, his guitar, and one friend waiting. Read @jennpelly's profile of the singer-songwriter, who since traded New York City for Kansas City
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Apr 24
omw to see the movie abt the 22 y/o music journo in 2011 who is trying to writing a 33 1/3 book and spending too much time around indie-rock men……. wonder how it will turn out for her……
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Apr 23
Life & Death in Kevin Morby’s Midwest — pitchfork.com/features/life-… via @jennpelly
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28 Oct 2018
Lucinda Williams is one of my favorite songwriters of all time and I got to write about her masterpiece 💐 p4k.in/kvtTrng
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please feel free to go ahead and give Car Wheels on a Gravel Road a 10.0 thank you very much
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4 Dec 2025
this is still true 🙂mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781…
3 Dec 2018
my raincoats book is a great holdaytime gift for: music fans, punk thinkers, teens, people just beginning to play music, visual artists into concepts and process, anyone interested in feminism and counterculture 🙂📷: Shirley O’Loughlin roughtrade.com/us/books/the-…
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9 Apr 2024
Last year I wrote 9,180 words about Margo Guryan and they appear as liner notes in this box set, ft interviews with family members, friends, admirers, and collaborators from across her career 🫶📷
8 Apr 2024
From humble beginnings to the peaks of her 1968 baroque pop masterpiece Take a Picture and the collected Demos to the recent viral ubiquity of “Why Do I Cry”, Words and Music 3xLP Box Set captures the entirety of Margo Guryan’s career.
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17 Sep 2025
My 2024 blog post about Margo Guryan, above, is nominated for a Reeperbahn International Music Journalism Award. How cool thank you! reeperbahnfestival.com/en/im…
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8 Aug 2025
"A library-based service might not fully 'solve' the streaming dilemma, but I think it would help foster intentional listening, which is part of the puzzle."
A conversation between @lizpelly and @jennpelly for @PioneerWorks_: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/j…
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22 Jul 2025
“It’s an eternal teenager sensibility.” For PW Broadcast, twin sisters Jenn Pelly (@jennpelly) and Liz Pelly (@lizpelly) discuss DIY music, writing, and life beyond streaming. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/j…
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13 Jul 2025
"[Alex Ross] Perry and Pavement are more intuitive than analytical, but seem to share in this idea that telling one finite story is too ridiculous an approach to entertain, that a closed narrative loop could never be “definitive.”"
@jennpelly on PAVEMENTS.mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/m…
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30 May 2025
In this feature, @jennpelly spends six days on tour with Waxahatchee from Alabama until Texas, where @k_crutchfield recorded 2024’s Tigers Blood.
Read it here: shorturl.at/yrGeB
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3 Apr 2025
nine years later i still think there’s an “ivy”/ivy tripp connection
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27 Jan 2025
i wrote this 🥲
27 Jan 2025
Jessica Pratt's On Your Own Love Again turns 10 today.
Revisit our review of her gorgeous second album here: pitchfork.visitlink.me/fVs4Z…
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23 Jan 2025
Peacock then steps up to the mic, declaring: "I’m the one/You don’t have to look any further." Instantly, and without question, you believe her. hearingthings.co/annette-pea…
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23 Jan 2025
next week! i helped put this benefit show together ticketweb.com/event/ny4la-th…
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18 Jan 2025
this one’s for the bobcats
16 Jan 2025
If you haven’t seen A Complete Unknown, the soundtrack might feel like a novelty record, Timothée Chalamet’s Dylan karaoke. In context, it’s a generational actor’s portrayal of a musician who was himself constantly acting
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