About Caryn Rose

Photo by Debra L Rothenberg / rothenbergphoto.com

 

Caryn Rose began her writing career in 1980, when she tried (and failed) to convince her high school newspaper editor to run an article she’d written defending punk rock. This experience would inspire her to take matters into her own hands during the 80′s DIY publishing revolution. The Who fanzine she helped initiate, The Relay, was chosen by the band to be included in their exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As editor-in-chief of the first R.E.M. fanzine,  Radio Free Europe, she began to define her voice and her writing style and her unique way of writing about music. After a successful stint working for the former Warner/Elektra/Atlantic label overseas, Caryn followed the high-tech boom to Seattle in 1995. She flew into town with two boxes of cd’s, a duffel bag and an air mattress, and talked her way into her first startup. Several sleepless years later, she ended up at Microsoft, where she was a Program Manager for MSN and in the Windows division. Caryn returned back to New York City in 2004.

While in Seattle, she built her first web site (radio ethiopia), and started the first Patti Smith mailing list. From 1996-2001, Caryn was a founding member of fivehorizons.com, the critically-regarded, award-winning independent web site for Pearl Jam. She was also a contributor to legendary Seattle music magazine Backfire, to Blogcritics.org, is a masthead contributor to the Springsteen publication Backstreets (with multiple cover stories to her credit, as well as interviews with Peter Buck of R.E.M., Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Alan Vega of Suicide and Jesse Malin) and on her own jukeboxgraduate.com. She was a regular contributor to the Tour Notes section of brucespringsteen.net during the 2009 tour, and has co-hosted Live From E Street Nation with Dave Marsh on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Caryn also writes about baseball and the New York Mets for metsgrrl.com (one of a handful of blogs formally recognized by the Mets organization) and on her baseball travel site, All Down The Line. She lives in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn with her boyfriend and her cat, Jackie Wilson. She loves to travel, photograph New York City, and jump up and down while listening to loud music.

You can write to Caryn at jukeboxgraduate at gmail dot com.