“2025 felt like a transitional year for popular music, though it’s extremely difficult to say what’s waiting around the corner,” @amandapetrusich writes. See what made her list of the best albums of the year.
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“D’Angelo was a generational talent—an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter.” @amandapetrusich remembers the R. & B. singer D’Angelo, who died this week at 51. nyer.cm/QBD5WNE

As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”
Revisit an interview with the 2023: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/m13dSP

On his new album, “Guitar,” Mac DeMarco played every instrument, shot the cover art, and is releasing it on his own label. @amandapetrusich profiles the musician.
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.@amandapetrusich sees Mk.gee at a rock club in the artist’s home state, New Jersey—which might be the smallest room he’ll ever perform in again.
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Ryan Davis’s new album, “New Threats from the Soul,” is suffused with “listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire,” @amandapetrusich writes.
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The always-great @amandapetrusich on Ryan Davis in @NewYorker. My interview with Ryan for @aquadrunkard is coming soon!

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The MJ Lenderman endorsement remains undefeated.

The legend @Passionweiss and the dream team interlocutor @amandapetrusich . The 2000s: the past isn’t over

Next Wednesday in New York.

I'm in conversation with @amandapetrusich at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo. 7 pm

Free admission but you must be dressed like Britney and Snoop in the "Outrageous" video.

The TikTok star Addison Rae released “Addison,” her first full-length album, “which is positioned to become one of the summer’s marquee offerings,” @amandapetrusich writes. nyer.cm/xwekaNt

"Wallen’s voice has an easy lilt that reminds me of someone distractedly practicing their golf swing in the sporting-goods aisle of a big box store. But here, he sounds sharp, flinty, and cold."

@amandapetrusich is the best.

Morgan Wallen has been releasing music for nine years, and most of it is “alarmingly interchangeable,” @amandapetrusich writes—much of his catalogue is “merely a statement (and restatement) of purpose: love hurts, whiskey helps.” nyer.cm/lbkwTJx

For Phish fans, jam sessions can result in a sort of dissociative bliss. @amandapetrusich experienced it herself at a recent music festival. nyer.cm/tHPPRFM

“I have a photograph of the first word that my wife ever uttered to me, which was ‘No.’ ” In a new interview with Jeff Bridges, the actor tells @amandapetrusich how he met and fell in love with his wife. nyer.cm/1ywbhLL

What a lovely piece by @amandapetrusich on Phish. Like most of the journalism (and the music?) that I'm drawn to, it goes with the flow. Reading it reminds me that practiced tightness allows for the best kind of informal looseness, if you're lucky
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We are lucky to have the GOAT music journalist profiling the GOATs @amandapetrusich

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“It’s amazing how accessible love is.”—Jeff Bridges, in the interview @amandapetrusich conducted newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

“When creativity is going down, you acknowledge that, and you try to get out of your own way.” Jeff Bridges talks about his new album, “Slow Magic”—a series of songs he recorded when he was in his late 20s—in an interview with @amandapetrusich. nyer.cm/VugmFBq