Grayson Currin

North Carolina

I don't tweet, really, so email me: [email protected]. Better yet, IG is @currincy. Music Writing @ NYT, P4K, MOJO, NPR, etc. Hiking Columnist @ Outside.

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Hurricane Helene Turned the Appalachian Trail Into a Highway Pile-Up. I Hiked it to Survey the Recovery.

1 week ago | outsideonline.com | Grayson Currin

The good news is that you can now see the Nolichucky River sooner. Since my first thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2019, I've often thought about a cliff edge just above Erwin, Tenn., where the woods open to reveal the Nolichucky rushing from a gorge below. It is one of the AT's pure postcard moments, a spot for which I even advocated in a recent Backpacker list of the iconic trail's best 100 miles. More than once, I've seen it in my dreams.
Hurricane Helene Turned the Appalachian Trail Into a Highway Pile-Up. I Hiked it to Survey the Recovery.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Grayson Currin

When it comes to weather and temperature, our planet is nothing short of extraordinary. Right now, as you read this, there are places on Earth where …
Qasim Naqvi: Endling

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Grayson Currin

For the longest time, I couldn’t quite understand what kept pulling me back to Endling, the fifth synthesizer album by Dawn of Midi drummer Qasim Naqvi. Still, for weeks, I would press play whenever the day’s other listening seemed to be done, or when I was just too tired of the moment’s miasmic news to make another decision.
Alan Sparhawk / Trampled by Turtles: Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Grayson Currin

Mimi Parker had been dead for exactly three weeks the first time that her widower, Alan Sparhawk, stepped back on a stage. Trampled by Turtles—a nominal bluegrass band whose music has long overflowed the genre’s oft-narrow container—had released its 10th album, Alpenglow, during Parker’s final days in late 2022.
Alan Sparhawk / Trampled by Turtles: Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Grayson Currin

From allegations of infidelity to swinging scandals, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives offers a look into a version of Mormon life far removed from traditional public perception. Set in suburban Utah, the TV series follows a group of Mormon women – most of whom rose to fame on TikTok and became …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Grayson Currin

Jimi Hendrix did not want to be onstage at the Hollywood Bowl. A month earlier, in late July 1967, he and arguably England’s hottest new band—The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a riotous power trio formed in London only 10 months earlier—had bailed on their first full American run after opening for the squeaky-clean heartthrobs of the Monkees for eight disastrous dates.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Grayson Currin

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says artificial intelligence does nothing more than "steal" from original human artistic workThom Yorke - the frontman for Radiohead and The Smile - has spoken out against the onslaught of artificial intelligence in music and the creative industries, insisting the technology can do nothing more than replicate "genuine human artistic expression".
Mares of Thrace, “The Loss”

1 month ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Grayson Currin

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American Hiking Trails Need Us More than Ever. Here's How to Help.

1 month ago | outsideonline.com | Grayson Currin

When Teresa Martinez was a mountain-bike racer, she suffered a recurring anxiety dream. Days before any competition, Martinez would envision herself woefully unprepared, five minutes before the start. First, her shoes would go missing, then her bike, then her water bottle, then her gloves. With her gear finally gathered, she still had to find the starting line. "And then, you wake up in a cold sweat," she told me recently.
Adam Duritz Is Just Happy to Be Anywhere

1 month ago | gq.com | Grayson Currin

Adam Duritz keeps his platinum plaques in his half-bathroom, just past the front door of his labyrinthine fifth-floor Manhattan condo. Actually, they are mostly gold records—at least one for each of the first four albums by Counting Crows, his band that, depending on your particular perspective, either helped define or destroy what was best about ’90s radio rock.