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NYT Best Selling Author, Taylor Swift, "The Stories Behind the Songs"; @333books @duranduran; other books on music. she/her. apstudiozaleski at gmail

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I’m an award-winning writer with profiles, interviews, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Billboard, Classic Pop, Record Collector, The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, Stereogum, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Las Vegas Weekly.

I’m the author of a 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s Rio; the illustrated biographies Lady Gaga: Applause and Pink, Raise Your Glass; and the music history book This is Christmas, Song by S…

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Paul McCartney's vibrant modern moment

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By Annie Zaleski
| Substack
A review of 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane,' a Wings exhibit at the Rock Hall, and celebrating Linda McCartney The marvelous sweater vest Paul McCartney wore in the “Waterfalls” video. Paul McCartney’s been in a nostalgic mood as of late. This past week, he appeared on the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where he reminisced about the Beatles’ pivotal 1964 performance at the Ed Sullivan Theater (the venue where Colbert also taped) and turned the lights off in the venue at the end.
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With 'Middle of Nowhere,' Kacey Musgraves Finds Equilibrium In The Great Unknown

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By Annie Zaleski
| No Depression Verified
Editor's Note: Annie Zaleski has been awarded one of two No Depression Criticism Fellowships to write in-depth album reviews on roots music's most important albums. The Criticism Fellowships kick off with this review of Kacey Musgraves' Middle of Nowhere, out today via Lost Highway. Nobody sets a vivid scene quite like Kacey Musgraves.
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Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs

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By Annie Zaleski
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. May 2026. 216p. ISBN 9798894142241. $30. MUSIC COPY ISBN Music journalist Zaleski ( I Got You Babe) keeps this tribute to singer, songwriter, and style icon Stevie Nicks wide-ranging and entertaining, curating a choice list of tracks from Fleetwood Mac and Nicks’s solo career and bookending the collection with a few songs by other artists who inspired Nicks or were inspired by her.
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