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  • 1 week 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.

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Amanda Petrusich
Amanda Petrusich @amandapetrusich
19 Apr 25

RT @NewYorker: For Phish fans, jam sessions can result in a sort of dissociative bliss. @amandapetrusich experienced it herself at a recent…

Amanda Petrusich
Amanda Petrusich @amandapetrusich
19 Apr 25

RT @NewYorker: “I have a photograph of the first word that my wife ever uttered to me, which was ‘No.’ ” In a new interview with Jeff Bridg…

Amanda Petrusich
Amanda Petrusich @amandapetrusich
15 Apr 25

RT @maxabelson: What a lovely piece by @amandapetrusich on Phish. Like most of the journalism (and the music?) that I'm drawn to, it goes w…