- Ann Powers
Ann Powers (born
4 February ,1964 ) has been writing about popular music and society since the early 1980s. She is the author of "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" and coeditor of "Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap".A Seattle,
Washington native, she has written for many music publications, and her work has been widely anthologized.Fact|date=March 2007 While still a teenager, she began writing about music in the now-defunct Seattle music tabloid "The Rocket". After a brief stint at the "New York Times " in 1992-93, she was an editor for the "Village Voice " from 1993 until 1996, then returned to the "Times" as a pop critic from 1997 until 2001. From 2001 until May 2005, she was senior curator at theExperience Music Project , an interactive music museum in Seattle. After a brief tenure as "Blender" magazine's senior critic, in March 2006 she accepted a position as chief pop-music critic at the "Los Angeles Times ", where she succeedsRobert Hilburn .In 2005, Powers co-wrote the book "Piece by Piece" with musician
Tori Amos . The book discusses the role of women in the modern music industry, and features information about composing, touring, performance, and the realities of the music business. Powers and Amos complemented the publication of the book with the event "An Evening with Tori Amos" inNew York City onFebruary 24 ,2005 , where they discussed themes explored in the book.Powers is married to rock critic
Eric Weisbard . They have one daughter, Rebecca Brooklyn.References
* Patrick MacDonald, [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002848360_aebriefs07.html Ann Powers named L.A. Times pop critic] , "Seattle Times",
March 7 ,2006
* Michaelangelo Matos [http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/0610/artsbuzz.php Critically Acclaimed: Next Stop, L.A.] , "Seattle Weekly",March 8 ,2006 External links
* [http://eensyweensy.blogspot.com/ Ann Powers' blog]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/ann_powers/index.html Articles by Ann Powers] from the "New York Times "
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