about me

Hi there. I'm Caryn Rose, and I'm the editor and publisher of Radio Nowhere.

I've been writing about Bruce Springsteen since 1980, when I came home from seeing him in Hartford on the River tour and wrote a review for my high school newspaper, The Westword (go Vikings!). I later wrote for Backstreets Magazine for over 20 years, and was a regular correspondent for brucespringsteen.net's show reports over the years.

I have written a lot of words on Bruce over the years, including this somewhat infamous piece:

I'm a full-time freelance writer. My clips are here (from publications like NPR Music, Pitchfork, the Guardian, Billboard, Vulture, and many others. I currently write a bimonthly column over at Salon.

I have also written several books (the most recent: WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, University of Texas Press 2022) and have contributed to many more (most recently HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC: A REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY FROM NPR).

I also run a general music mailing list over at jukeboxgraduate.com, a domain I bought in 1999 when I had access to unlimited server space at my employer, an enormous multinational software company located just outside of Seattle, and decided to host a bunch of live shows from the Reunion tour so that everyone could hear them.

I'm a former New Yorker who currently lives in Detroit, MI, along with my cats Eli and Melvin. Melvin is named after both a dearly departed relative as well as the infamous Little Melvin and the Invaders.

Editorial and other inquiries can be directed to caryn dot rose at gmail dot com.