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Caryn Rose

Caryn Rose is a music journalist, historian and archivist. She's written for NPR Music, Variety, Pitchfork, Billboard and many others, and her most recent book is "Why Patti Smith Matters." She wrote for Backstreets Magazine for over 20 years and publishes a weekly newsletter about Bruce Springsteen's work at Radio Nowhere. She currently resides in Detroit, Michigan.

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and singer Chris Cornell (Paul Rovere/Getty Images)

Kim Thayil’s “A Screaming Life” will make you hear Soundgarden differently

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour" - New York (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

“Say something! Do something!”: Bruce Springsteen’s tour is a call to action

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Bob Dylan (Gary Miller/Getty Images)

Bob Dylan’s baffling social media experiment

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Lunachicks (Bob Mussell)

“Pretty Ugly” resurrects the Lunachicks as Punk Rock’s most underrated revolutionaries

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Alice Coltrane ( Echoes/Redferns/Getty Images)

Alice Coltrane and No Wave’s overlooked women step out of the margins

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Melissa Auf der Maur (Jessica Chappe)

Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir captures the beauty and brutality of ’90s rock

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U2 (Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

U2’s “Days of Ash” is an urgent dispatch from a band that still believes

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Odetta (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The musical dialogue between Bob Dylan and Black America

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Bruce Springsteen performs on stage as part of a concert in protest of federal agents in Minnesota (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Bruce Springsteen’s protest songs still hit where it hurts

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"Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains" (IFC/Paramount Pictures)

The punk rock movie that taught a generation of girls not to put out

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Justin Townes Earle (Da Capo)

Telling the hard parts: 4 music books that push past the highlight reel

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"Another Beatles Christmas Show" at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 23rd December 1964. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

Merry Krimble from The Beatles: A year-by-year tour of their holiday singles

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The Replacements (Rhino)

These box sets and reissues make a strong case for buying the music again

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A man walks past a placard of the YOKO ONO MUSIC OF THE MIND exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Duesseldorf, western Germany on September 26, 2024 (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

At last, a Yoko Ono retrospective free of The Beatles blame game

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Patti Smith, 1977 (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story

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Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" (20th Century Studios)

“Deliver Me from Nowhere” aims for truth but loses the soul of Springsteen

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Mike Scott of The Waterboys (Paul Mac Manus)

The Waterboys remind Americans how to be cool

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Paula Cole on stage at Lilith Fair (Merri Cyr/Hulu)

Lilith Fair rewrote the rules of rock

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Margo Price performs during the Back Cove Festival on August 03, 2025 in Portland, Maine. ( Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)

Margo Price is in her villain era

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Neil Young, 2025 ( Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

Neil Young demonstrates why live music will always be better

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Sinéad O'Connor (Michel Linssen/Redferns/Getty Images)

A literary tribute to Sinéad O’Connor takes her legacy off the back burner

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Ana da Silva and Gina Birch of The Raincoats (Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)

Your favorite band’s favorite band gets its due

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Bruce Springsteen, 2025 (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bruce Springsteen maps the treasures of his own music vault

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Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie (David A. Smith/Getty Images)

Low Cut Connie isn’t keeping quiet about finding it hard to be livin’ in the USA

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