jenn pelly
@jennpelly
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journalist and critic ➖ contributing writer @pitchfork ➖ author "the raincoats"
new york
Joined July 2008
Such a dream to profile Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff—a story of queer folk music and hardcore matinees and graffitied boxcars and squats, of protesting and hitchhiking and carving new paths into the tradition of escaping to find yourself
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How Alynda Segarra, a former train-hopping punk from the Bronx, became one of America’s best songwriters.
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RT @PioneerWorks_: “It’s an eternal teenager sensibility.” For PW Broadcast, twin sisters Jenn Pelly (@jennpelly) and Liz Pelly (@lizpelly)….
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The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
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RT @mubinotebook: "[Alex Ross] Perry and Pavement are more intuitive than analytical, but seem to share in this idea that telling one finit….
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Alex Ross Perry’s prankish metafiction takes the piss out of the music-doc industrial complex.
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RT @oxfordamerican: In this feature, @jennpelly spends six days on tour with Waxahatchee from Alabama until Texas, where @k_crutchfield rec….
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Jenn Pelly spends six days on tour with Waxahatchee from Alabama until Texas, where Katie Crutchfield recorded 2024’s Tigers Blood.
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nine years later i still think there’s an “ivy”/ivy tripp connection.
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this is lorelei should start covering “bark at the moon” imo….
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i wrote this 🥲.
Jessica Pratt's On Your Own Love Again turns 10 today. Revisit our review of her gorgeous second album here:
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RT @hearingthingsco: Peacock then steps up to the mic, declaring: "I’m the one/You don’t have to look any further." Instantly, and without….
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The singer, songwriter, and synth pioneer’s epic 1972 track is an audacious dispatch from an artist restlessly committed to music’s frontiers.
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this one’s for the bobcats.
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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RT @JoeyQuits: We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most….
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spent many months writing this concert review
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On her 149-stop Eras Tour, Taylor Swift made gigantic stadiums seem impressively small.
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"Most time when you're around.I feel like a note.Roberta flack is going to sing" ♡
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RT @pitchfork: Though she has spent nearly four decades as an icon of nonchalant alt-rock cool, Kim Deal is no stranger to the big gesture….
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Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.
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RT @firetalkrecs: "if these strange or futuristic-sounding textures can be rooted in emotionality and beauty and musicality — that’s where….
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Meet the New York band channelling Sophie and Kim Gordon to make future-pitched industrial pop.
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album of the year: waxahatchee tigers blood.song of the year: waxahatchee tigers blood.
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RT @i_D: Didion & Babitz drastically oversells the authors’ supposed rivalry. "The story Anolik tells herself, and wants to tell us, is tha….
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A new book chronicles Joan Didion and Eve Babitz’s friendship, leaning on a trove of Babitz's letters.
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“sympathy is a knife,” as an emotional guiding principle, has served me well this year.
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RT @robsheff: I’m New York City, still do it for you babe. Tomorrow Tues 11/19 with the legend @jennpelly, at the Barnes & Noble Upper West….
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