Lindsay Zoladz

Lindsay Zoladz is a pop music critic at the New York Times, where she writes the subscriber-only music discovery newsletter The Amplifier. She is currently working on her first book, about the gendered history of artistic genius, for MCD/FSG.

She was previously a staff writer at The Ringer and before that the pop music critic at New York magazine, where her work earned her the National Society of Magazine Editors’ ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30.

Her writing—about music, film, feminism, technology, and generational identities, among other things—has been published by outlets including the New York Times Magazine, NPR, The Cut, Pitchfork, Bookforum, The Believer, Film Comment, Slate, and Bitch

recent pieces
Cass Elliot’s Death Spawned a Horrible Myth. She Deserves Better

St. Vincent Dives Headfirst into the Darkness

On ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Taylor Swift Could Use an Editor

Kim Gordon’s Coolest Act Yet

Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?

Enough About Gram Parsons’ Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music

Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Glorious, Golden and In Control