Amanda Petrusich

Hudson Valley (group)

Staff Writer, @newyorker. Author of “Do Not Sell At Any Price,” a book about collectors of rare 78rpm records. Writer-in-Residence, @nyugallatin.

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Movie Club Newsletter

1 week ago | link.newyorker.com | Justin Chang |Richard Brody |Amanda Petrusich |Adam Gopnik

What our writers think about the new film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal. Plus: a new documentary about video stores. View in browser | “Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
Annie DiRusso Sings and Tells

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

The singer and guitarist Annie DiRusso was recently back in Croton-on-Hudson, the sleepy Hudson River town where she was brought up. DiRusso, who is twenty-five, was preparing for an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and trying to rework the lyrics to “Legs,” a new single, so that it might be suitable for network television. Much of the pleasure of DiRusso’s songwriting is in its frankness.
On “I’m the Problem,” Morgan Wallen Goes Back to God’s Country

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

Morgan Wallen is a country singer, almost defiantly so, though he is also popular on a scale that seems to circumvent genre entirely.
Goings On Newsletter

2 months ago | link.newyorker.com | Richard Brody |Helen Shaw |Amanda Petrusich

Plus: schmaltzing up Sondheim; Marisa Tomei in a show about Sisyphus as a pregnant artist; and Michael Hersch’s twenty-nine-piece song cycle. View in browser | What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. You’re on the free list. New Yorker subscribers get our book picks in their inbox weekly, plus unlimited access to our seasonal culture previews, commentary, and criticism.
After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

People who love Phish do so with a devotion that is quasi-religious—deep, eternal, and rhapsodic. People who dislike Phish do so with equal fervor, often while making jokes about the degenerative effects of LSD on the prefrontal cortex. This divisiveness speaks, in part, to the band’s abiding disinterest in capitulating to the Zeitgeist. The barrier to entry is high: to experience the phenomenon on any significant level, you need to see the band live, probably more than once.
Jeff Bridges Is Digging It

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a potter’s wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, taped-up printouts of ideas he finds provocative or perhaps grounding (“Enlightenment is a communal experience”), and piles of books, from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” to “Who Cares?! The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S.
Jeff Bridges Is Digging It

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Amanda Petrusich

Woman Told Her Husband They Couldn’t Afford a Vacation This Year. So He Booked a Trip with Their Kids Without HerA woman is seeking advice after her husband booked a vacation for himself and their kids without her. The woman detailed her experience on Mumsnet.com, a U.K.-based community site where women can go to get input from other women about interpersonal issues. In her post, the woman shared that she and …
A Playlist for Spring

Mar 27, 2025 | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

About that group chat … it’s bad. And the spectre of autocracy is even worse, David Remnick argues. But, first, put on our playlist to help you navigate the atmospheric flip-flop of spring. Plus:• How Donald Trump throttled Big Law• Amanda Seyfried on four books that made her feel less alone• Joe Rogan and the men who love himAmanda PetrusichPetrusich has been covering music for the magazine since 2015.
The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus

Mar 17, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Amanda Petrusich

This spring, Dacus, who is twenty-nine, will release “Forever Is a Feeling,” her fourth solo record. It’s a gorgeous and tender album about falling in love—Dacus is now in a committed relationship with Baker—and how the tumult of that experience has forced her to reckon with the unknown. “This is bliss / This is Hell / Forever is a feeling / and I know it well,” Dacus sings on the title track. Her voice sounds pure and soft over a tangle of synthesizers, gamelan, harp, and drum machine.
The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus

Mar 17, 2025 | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River. Dacus is a formidable solo artist—since 2016, she has released three albums of searching, intimate folk rock—but she’s perhaps best known as one-third of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker.