Amanda Petrusich

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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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Goings On Newsletter

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month ago | 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

1 month ago | 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

1 month ago | 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.
The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Amanda Petrusich

3 hours agoWhat's the worst job you've ever had? For Bullseye's annual MaxFunDrive we thought it'd be fun to ask a bunch of guests on the show that very question. You know, the gigs they had before they got in the biz. Jesse asked guests Denzel Curry, Lucy Dacus, Kelsey Grammer and many more about past jobs …
David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

This past Friday, the singer David Johansen, perhaps best known as the debauched, preening front man of the New York Dolls, a band essential to the genesis of punk rock in New York City in the nineteen-seventies, died of cancer, at age seventy-five.
Finding a Home Among the Punks

Feb 8, 2025 | newyorker.com | Amanda Petrusich

In the early nineteen-eighties, Gail Butensky, then an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Chicago, started taking photographs of punk bands for the Daily Northwestern. “I had pretty wimpy taste in high school,” Butensky told me recently. “But in the late seventies, when I heard artists like Patti Smith and Talking Heads, my outlook changed. I got much more interested. I met my first friend in college because he had a The Jam button on his lapel.