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Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Bimonthly column at Salon.com | WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, UTP 2022 Springsteen newsletter @ https://www.radio-nowhere.com/ clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/ She / her

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · Jul 7

music journalist / historian / archivist. bylines in: Salon.com, NPR, Variety & others. I wrote WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS. proprietor of RADIO NOWHERE (www.radio-nowhere.com), a newsletter about Bruce Springsteen. clips at carynrose.contently.com

Radio Nowhere: A Newsletter About Bruce Springsteen

Thoughtful and deeply-researched discussion and commentary about Bruce Springsteen's music and live shows.

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 4m

i know you're kidding but you should absolutely do this before someone else does but worse

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 42m

i'm not sure spoilers apply to things that are over 40 years old but I wrote about Electric Nebraska for @theguardian.com : www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... #springsteen

Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition review – fabled album falls short of expectations

Rumours of the existence of E Street versions of Springsteen’s masterpiece have swirled for decades, but the reality doesn’t live up to the hype

www.theguardian.com

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 3h

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 3h

“Enjoy your frog” should be the new antifa greeting

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 4h

30 years ago tonight: Bowie in Dallas; performance released decades later as "Ouvrez le Chien" (bit of an odd pick to be the official '95 US tour document; maybe just the best-sounding tape they had) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ywh...

Look Back In Anger (Live at the Starplex Amphitheater, Dallas, 13th October, 1995)

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote about seeing Elvis Costello last week & how it feels watching your favorite artists age onstage: jukeboxgraduate.com/elvis-costel...

Elvis Costello & the Imposters featuring Charlie Sexton, Royal Oak Music Theatre, October 9, 2025

They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss

jukeboxgraduate.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 20h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 17h

The Texas Gravy Seals jokes embarrassed Hegseth.

🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 17h

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17h

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago.

Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

finally finished writing about seeing Elvis Costello earlier this week & what it's like to witness our favorites aging in front of us, as we do the same: jukeboxgraduate.com/elvis-costel...

Elvis Costello & the Imposters featuring Charlie Sexton, Royal Oak Music Theatre, October 9, 2025

They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss

jukeboxgraduate.com

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you!! That is what I was trying to do so I appreciate that it could be seen.

Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 22h

they probably suggested the addition of a menorah to the parade and he lost his shit

Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

finally finished writing about seeing Elvis Costello earlier this week & what it's like to witness our favorites aging in front of us, as we do the same: jukeboxgraduate.com/elvis-costel...

Elvis Costello & the Imposters featuring Charlie Sexton, Royal Oak Music Theatre, October 9, 2025

They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss

jukeboxgraduate.com

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

i know you weren't! but i am very abashed bc i know i should do this and i fight it. but this was a very clear approach that i should try to adopt.

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

timeline cleanse feat. Charlie Sexton

charlie sexton playing a black Rickenbacker

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 23h

This video also shows the effectiveness of whistles.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

this was a kind and gentle shame that i am using as inspiration instead of getting to 7:30 every weeknight and having to make pasta bc i have not thought this through well enough. i can write books but not meal plan apparently

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 23h

there is literally nothing i enjoy more than someone whose musical taste i trust making a recommendation to see or listen to something & then following through on it

Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 1d

Just added to my calendar. One of the greatest joys of living here is that admission to the DIA is free for Wayne county residents

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 1d

They’re selling postcards of the hanging

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

They’re restoring monuments to the Confederacy while monuments to freedmen are vandalized.

KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 1d

‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2...

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Philly: I’ve got two tickets for Destroyer tonight that I can’t use. DM me if you’re interested.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear, when I say “we,” I mean journalists. At this point you should be able to write “deranged billionaire Peter Thiel” or “deranged blogger Curtis Yarvin” for the New York Times or The Economist and have it sail through the editorial process untouched.

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 1d

Mais oui!

Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 1d

I still think it’s indicative

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