Greyt Big Talk w/ Annie Zaleski
Waiting for the Gift of Sound & Vision
Cleveland-based journalist, and popular music critic, Annie Zaleski.
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Annie Zaleski
Music journalist, editor and best-selling author
Annie Zaleski is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist and editor who writes about music and pop culture. Her profiles, interviews and criticism have appeared in Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Billboard, The A.V. Club, Vulture, the Los Angeles Times, Stereogum, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and many other outlets. She was previously music editor at the Riverfront Times and managing editor at Alternative Press, and she edits the 33 1/3 Genre Series for Bloomsbury.
Her 2024 book Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs made the USA Today and New York Times best-seller lists and was named a Best Book of 2024 by Barnes & Noble. She has also written a 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran's Rio, illustrated biographies of Lady Gaga, Pink and Harry Styles, This Is Christmas, Song by Song, and books on Dolly Parton and Stevie Nicks. She wrote liner notes for the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.'s Out of Time, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame commissioned her induction essays for Duran Duran, George Michael and Cher. She has commented on music for NPR, the CBC and other broadcasters.
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“We have the ability to create our own vision with sound”
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1100 Rock and Roll Blvd, Cleveland, OH, 44114
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is the museum and hall of fame that tells the history of rock music and the artists, producers and engineers who shaped it. Its building on North Coast Harbor, where East 9th Street meets Lake Erie, was designed by architect I. M. Pei and opened in 1995: a tiled white tower and a cantilevered drum set against a tilted glass front, right on the shoreline. Inside are the exhibits, along with live performances, film screenings, fan events and education programs for students across Northeast Ohio.
About this event
Cleveland-based journalist, and popular music critic, Annie Zaleski. Annie was previously an editor at the Riverfront Times and Alternative Press; currently, she's a contributing writer at The A.V. Club and a columnist at Salon. Her profiles, interviews and criticism have appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, Vulture, Billboard, the Village Voice, Consequence of Sound, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Las Vegas Weekly. Most recently, she wrote the liner notes for the 25th-anniversary deluxe issue of R.E.M.'s Out Of Time.