Caitlin (Wolper) Phillips

essays & reporting

 

• Nylon — The True Story Behind Regina Spektor's Lost Debut Album, 11:11

• Bitch Media — Trial By Firing: Are Unions the Cure for Post-Traumatic Press Disorder? (Print & online)

• Nylon — Notice Me!: How Fandom Endangers Female Musicians​

• The New York Times — Why is there a coffee shop in so many stores?​

• Rolling Stone — How Mitski Became the Cowboy​

• Vulture — 'Broad City' Encouraged Women to Be Their Grossest Selves ​

• Nylon — How Art Inspired By Sexual Assault Can Help Survivors Heal​

• Grubstreet — The Sound of Live Music Returns to New York's Bars and Restaurants

• Bustle — Touring Musicians Are Losing More than Just Money in the Coronavirus Pandemic​

• Allure — Why Are People Still Catcalling During a Pandemic?

• Nylon — Why Poetry Thrives in Times of Conflict

• Allure — Disordered Eating is Still Missing from the Conversation about Eating Disorders

• MTV News — How Regina Spektor's Broadway Residency Redefines the Concert Experience 

• Vinyl Me, Please — Girl, Put Your Records On: The Perfect Work-From-Home Soundtrack

• Rolling Stone — St. Vincent's Alien Rebirth

• Vice — Women Secretly Run the Town of 'Letterkenny'

• Slate — The #MeToo Moment Everyone Missed in 'Bojack Horseman'​

• MTV News — The Master of Modern Love​

• Paste — Why Bright Eyes' 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning' Still Matters

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interviews & profiles

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• Observer — Exclusive Interview: Anna Marie Tendler Ruminates on Loss in ‘Rooms in the First House’

• Vulture — Colin Mochrie Reflects on Over 30 Years of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

• Grammys — Matt Berninger's Optimistic Malaise​

• The Creative Independent — Regina Spektor on being surprised by what you've made

• No Depression — Visiting Other Selves: Lucy Dacus' Home Video reflects who she used to be ​

• MTV News — The Glam Grief of Sad13's 'Haunted Painting'​

• Teen Vogue — Maya Boyce on College, Charity, and Keeping Cameron's Legacy Alive​

• UPROXX — Vinyl And Velvet: A Look Inside Pom Pom Squad’s High School Americana

• Grammys — Bright Eyes Usher in a New Apocalypse​

• Vinyl Me, Please — Waxahatchee's Clear-Headed 'St. Cloud'​

• Nylon — Alia Shawkat Can't Wait to Lose Control

• Polygon — How Love Is Blind creates ‘television magic’ with pitch-perfect music choices

• Grammys — How Japanese Breakfast Found Joy on Her New Album 'Jubilee'​

• The Creative Independent — Writer Jessica Hopper on continually redefining what you do​

• Vinyl Me, Please — Frances Quinlan Wants Witnesses​

• Teen Vogue — Camp Cope on Supporting Other Woman in Music and Calling Out Festival Lineups​

• Vinyl Me, Please — Vagabon's Many Faces​

• Nylon — Mal Blum Explores Self-Destructive Habits on 'Pity Boy'​

• Vinyl Me, Please — On 'Young Enough,' Charly Bliss Spills Out​​​

• New York Family — Amber Tamblyn: Weaponized Woman (Cover story) ​

• Vinyl Me, Please — Sylvan Esso's Immersed in 'Free Love'​

• New York Family — NBC Anchor Lester Holt & His WNBC Anchor Son, Stefan Holt, Talk Family, Empathy & Media (Cover story)​

• MTV News — Okkervil River's Will Sheff Dances with the Grim Reaper

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misc.

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• Pitchfork — Maya Hawke: MAITREYA CORSO (album review)

• Vox — Why is it so hard to finish a notebook?​​​

• Rolling Stone — Song You Need to Know: Camp Cope, 'The Face of God'​

• Paste — Sufjan Stevens' 'The Ascension' Waxes Existential​

• uDiscoverMusic — Best Yusuf/Cat Stevens Songs: 20 Peaceful Pop Hits​

• SPIN — The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (St. Vincent and Japanese Breakfast blurbs)

• Nylon — Mitski's albums ranked, from 'Lush' to 'Laurel Hell'
  
   

musician bios

The Sophs, Pom Pom Squad, Kississippi, Grace Ludmila, Fern Mayo, Nefesh Mountain & Hush Club. 

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