jenn pelly

Get more from Critical Listening on Patreon a podcast about music, technology & culture industry hell

episodes 1-5 of @criticallistening.bsky.social, the podcast i co-host with @peretsky.bsky.social, are avail everywhere but spotify. we’re starting work on eps 6-10 this week. if you would like to support this work pls subscribe here! www.patreon.com/criticallist... tysm

Crying in the sunshine A glimpse of my recent Margo Guryan liner notes

I vow to update my blog more often, but here is my Margo post in the meantime jennpelly.substack.com/p/crying-in-...

Last fall I started a newsletter-blog called Jenn's Obsessions. The second post was a short essay adapted from my liner notes for a 2024 Margo Guryan box set. That blog post was just nominated for the Reeperbahn International Music Journalism Award. How cool thank you!

one week ago I saw Hotline TNT play a DIY show at a VFW hall in my hometown on Long Island where I have otherwise only been to attend sweet 16s in the mid-2000s

i was the 52nd person to purchase a copy of Hotline TNT's Raspberry Moon today as part of their 24-hour anti-spotify telethon ! they hope to sell 500 records. how cool www.assnup.com

Sister Inquiry | Broadcast The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.

"A library-based service might not fully 'solve' the streaming dilemma, but I think it would help foster intentional listening, which is part of the puzzle."

A conversation between @jennpelly.bsky.social and @lizpelly.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

Sister Inquiry | Broadcast The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.

grilled my sister for @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Waxahatchee: She Lives for the Sake of the Song

Great Read | No way did I know that I wanted 12k(!) words about Katie Crutchfield and Waxahatchee, but there’s personal layers to this @jennpelly.bsky.social on-the-bus profile that I’ve not read in a magazine music story in a decade, probably longer. They just don’t write them like this any more.

tysm 🥲🖤

Waxahatchee: She Lives for the Sake of the Song

In this feature, @jennpelly.bsky.social spends six days on tour with Waxahatchee from Alabama until Texas, where Katie Crutchfield recorded 2024’s "Tigers Blood." Read it here: shorturl.at/uiMh1

the ritual of getting the setlist will never die 🌀

i’m so sorry alex — you are a great editor & i feel lucky to have worked together

turnstile summer

🔥🔥🔥

Behold, @dandipiero.bsky.social invoking @jennpelly.bsky.social to think through “the crush” as a queer feminist sonic sensibility #PopCon2025

trailer for a new movie I made
screening in:
PHILLY - 3/15
NYC - 3/18
DC - 3/24
LANSING, MI 4/3

NYC 3/18
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-of... (free with rsvp!)
feat. music from Mutual Benefit
7pm

DC 3/24
sunscinema.com/movies/a-nig... (tickets here)
7pm (SOLD OUT) + 930pm

🆘

mood machine is by @lizpelly.bsky.social 🤝

forget vocal fry. why are podcast men always screaming

thank you for asking!! we’re going to do a talk at Pioneer works in brooklyn next month! i am not sure if they have plans to do anything with the interview already but that would be so cool

Active Listening Jenn and Liz Pelly

New post on Dada Drummer Almanach - about two fav music writers of mine, @lizpelly.bsky.social and @jennpelly.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/active-lis...

Confronting Music’s Mental Health Crisis Experts and artists including Santigold, Jeff Tweedy, and Denzel Curry trace a web of pressing issues while imagining the paths forward.

I spent 2022 interviewing the likes of Denzel Curry, Adrianne Lenker, Santigold, Courtney Barnett, and Jeff Tweedy for this story that explored the need for record label-funded mental healthcare for musicians pitchfork.com/features/art...

Now in College, Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

"I think the dream for me is to be unreachable one day." so inspired by Luddite teens & Alex's stories on them www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/s...

📢 i wrote this 📢

Annette Peacock’s “I’m the One” Is an Avant-Funk Affirmation for the Ages The singer, songwriter, and synth pioneer’s epic 1972 track is an audacious dispatch from an artist restlessly committed to music’s frontiers.

The world is still catching up to Annette Peacock

Gone with all the changes in my mind My life in writing in 2024

new blog jennpelly.substack.com/p/gone-with-...

#18 Celebrating Mood Machine Recommending Liz Pelly's incredible new book investigating the streaming economy and the true value of music

On my newsletter-blog-thing I wrote about @lizpelly.bsky.social book Mood Machine and how it brings up the pesky and interesting questions of how and who defines the value of different contexts of music www.mutualbenef.it/18-celebrati...

tysm for reading! i had fun watching the movie even tho it got stuff wrong, esp the suze rotolo character. i went to see her read from her memoir in 2008 and got to meet her, such a thrill😭 i hope more people read her book. i don’t mind TC playing these songs, it’s not like dylan wants to lol

some weekend reading perhaps

hell yeah thanks for sending, can’t wait to listen