Ann Powers
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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.[citation needed] 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 the Experience 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 succeeds Robert 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" in New York City on February 24, 2005, where they discussed themes explored in the book.
Powers is married to rock critic Eric Weisbard. They have one daughter, Rebecca Brooklyn.
[edit] References
- Patrick MacDonald, Ann Powers named L.A. Times pop critic, Seattle Times, March 7, 2006
- Michaelangelo Matos Critically Acclaimed: Next Stop, L.A., Seattle Weekly, March 8, 2006
