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  • 3 weeks ago | shorturl.at | Jenn Pelly

    Photograph by Molly Matalon Brother Bryan Park is a two-block stretch of grass and trees circling an abandoned pool on the southside of downtown Birmingham, Alabama. It’s more like a rough-edged town square or the set of a teen movie, seemingly designed for kids to skate in, to wreak secret havoc. When the songwriter Katie Crutchfield was in her early twenties, she penned a taut, suspended ballad called “Brother Bryan,” released in 2013, in memory of her close friend Tripp Norris.

  • Jan 23, 2025 | hearingthings.co | Jenn Pelly

    There’s more action and ambition in the first seconds of Annette Peacock’s “I’m the One” than in many entire pop albums. A burst of crescendoing free-jazz orchestration sweeps us up to a realm between MGM grandeur and Sun Ra’s interstellar swing, as if sucking out the song’s gravity so it can float. Each millisecond of this seven-minute psychedelic pop prophecy is an opportunity for Peacock—intrepid jazz composer, Moog pioneer, vocal acrobat, mother—to go beyond.

  • Jan 16, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Jenn Pelly

    From the second Timothée Chalamet gets spit out of a hitched ride at the edge of the George Washington Bridge in ragged clothes and a cabbie hat, clutching an acoustic guitar and a rucksack wandering the beat carnival on MacDougal Street, A Complete Unknown is, as the biopic form requires, a two-hour compression of music mythology that plays loose with facts. And every minute is a total blast.

  • Jan 15, 2025 | flipboard.com | Jenn Pelly

    The 10 best songs about songsFor any artist, there’s no right or wrong place to draw inspiration from. While most love songs can come from some real heartache that someone is …

  • Dec 11, 2024 | vulture.com | Jenn Pelly

    The final song played over the speakers before Taylor Swift took the stage every night of the Eras Tour was Dusty Springfield’s cover of the feminist pop anthem “You Don’t Own Me.” From the show’s opening in Arizona in March of 2023 to its final night, on Sunday in Vancouver, a countdown clock filled the screen; the audience screamed, angling their necks to glimpse a celebrity guest or Swift’s mother, Andrea, walking through the crowd; and then Springfield sang, in a voice of mystery, poise,...

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jenn pelly
jenn pelly @jennpelly
3 Apr 25

nine years later i still think there’s an “ivy”/ivy tripp connection

jenn pelly
jenn pelly @jennpelly
30 Mar 25

this is lorelei should start covering “bark at the moon” imo…

jenn pelly
jenn pelly @jennpelly
27 Jan 25

i wrote this 🥲

Pitchfork
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Jessica Pratt's On Your Own Love Again turns 10 today. Revisit our review of her gorgeous second album here: https://t.co/ySLt0p30me https://t.co/c5HIoTJsXg