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Hi! I’m Caryn Rose and I write about music history, recorded music, pop culture, and more. My clips of recent work are here & my author site is carynrose.com.

You’ve probably seen my work in places like Pitchfork, NPR Music, Salon, Vulture, Billboard, Pollstar, Backstreets, and many more. In the 90’s, I used to run a Pearl Jam website called Five Horizons and wrote about baseball in the mid 00’s under the name Metsgrrl. I have written a number of books, most recently WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS.

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