Amanda Petrusich
@amandapetrusich
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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“It seems wrong, somehow, that they are all gone.” Amanda Petrusich writes about Garth Hudson, the oldest and the last living member of the Band, who died on Tuesday at the age of 87. nyer.cm/7UStlMu
The New Yorker’s The New Yorker pop critic Amanda Petrusich Amanda Petrusich takes Laura David through a deep dive of the songs that have defined her love of music buff.ly/4jx2eEd
On episode 6 of "One by Willie". . . Acclaimed music critic Amanda Petrusich reframes the duo’s classic 1983 LP, Pancho & Lefty, as a concept album about easing into middle age. texasmonthly.com/podcast/amanda…
thanks to Amanda Petrusich for spending time with me for The New Yorker 🤍 and thanks to claire cottrill and Hozier and Chappell Roan for kind words wtf and thanks to Lenne Chai for the photos~ newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
“All love feels new and one of a kind, and it is. But also it’s the most ancient feeling.” Lucy Dacus talks to Amanda Petrusich about the perils of romance and her new album. nyer.cm/SRv6VQi
"I’d been listening to the song in my car earlier that morning, when a flock of Canada geese flew low and heavy over the highway, and I found myself weeping, suddenly, inelegantly..." Amanda Petrusich for @newyorker longreads.com/2025/03/20/the…
“When creativity is going down, you acknowledge that, and you try to get out of your own way.” Jeff Bridges talks about his new album, “Slow Magic”—a series of songs he recorded when he was in his late 20s—in an interview with Amanda Petrusich. nyer.cm/VugmFBq
“It’s amazing how accessible love is.”—Jeff Bridges, in the interview Amanda Petrusich conducted newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
We are lucky to have the GOAT music journalist profiling the GOATs Amanda Petrusich newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
What a lovely piece by Amanda Petrusich on Phish. Like most of the journalism (and the music?) that I'm drawn to, it goes with the flow. Reading it reminds me that practiced tightness allows for the best kind of informal looseness, if you're lucky newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
“I have a photograph of the first word that my wife ever uttered to me, which was ‘No.’ ” In a new interview with Jeff Bridges, the actor tells Amanda Petrusich how he met and fell in love with his wife. nyer.cm/1ywbhLL
For Phish fans, jam sessions can result in a sort of dissociative bliss. Amanda Petrusich experienced it herself at a recent music festival. nyer.cm/tHPPRFM
Morgan Wallen has been releasing music for nine years, and most of it is “alarmingly interchangeable,” Amanda Petrusich writes—much of his catalogue is “merely a statement (and restatement) of purpose: love hurts, whiskey helps.” nyer.cm/lbkwTJx
"Wallen’s voice has an easy lilt that reminds me of someone distractedly practicing their golf swing in the sporting-goods aisle of a big box store. But here, he sounds sharp, flinty, and cold." Amanda Petrusich is the best.
The TikTok star Addison Rae released “Addison,” her first full-length album, “which is positioned to become one of the summer’s marquee offerings,” Amanda Petrusich writes. nyer.cm/xwekaNt
Next Wednesday in New York. I'm in conversation with Amanda Petrusich at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo. 7 pm Free admission but you must be dressed like Britney and Snoop in the "Outrageous" video.
The legend Jeff Weiss and the dream team interlocutor Amanda Petrusich . The 2000s: the past isn’t over
