Ned RaggettAug 22, 2025
Some new weekly music thoughts up, including reflecting on #Highest2Lowest and a little more pondering on the recent #AnnPowers gamification of #music piece for NPR. https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-weekly-159-137041601
Show threadYear-End ListsNov 21, 2024

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024

#HanifAbdurraqib / #AnnPowers / #ElisaGabbert / #JonathanBlitzer / ...

https://www.yearendlists.com/2024/washington-post-50-notable-works-of-nonfiction-from-2024

#bookstodon

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024

JakeMay 31, 2024

Read an excerpt of Ann Powers' TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/05/31/joni-mitchell-ann-powers-biography-excerpt/

#JoniMitchell #AnnPowers

Joni Mitchell made music with the boys, but remained her own woman

Music critic Ann Powers’s new Joni Mitchell biography is a bracingly unsentimental appraisal of the revered singer-songwriter whose career spans six decades — and counting.

The Washington Post
Out of Context Podcast QuotesOct 14, 2023
"He is a soft boy that we can all love." - ANN POWERS, You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #AnnPowers
Ned Raggett (has moved!)Apr 29, 2023
And here we go! #DaphneBrooks! #JasonKing! #MadisonMoore! #TaviaNyongo! #SidneyMadden! #JafariAllen! #DaphneLaMothe! #DorrenStFelix! #AnnPowers! #KevinQuashie! All doing “Big Wave in the Room: A Renaissance in 16 Acts’ as the empress watches over all. #PopConference #PopCon2023
Ned Raggett (has moved!)Apr 27, 2023
#Peaches — #KingPrincess — #DawnRichard - #AnnPowers — the #PopConference is under way! #PopCon2023
Jake has moved!Jan 19, 2023

I sure wish Ann Powers was on here. She’s the sharpest rock critic working today. Here, she captures what makes the new #boygenius single “Emily I'm Sorry” so good.

https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2023/01/19/1149930157/boygenius-emily-im-sorry

#AnnPowers #rockcrit #PhoebeBridgers #music #npr