Amy Linden

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Amy Linden is an American music journalist and critic.

As a journalist and music critic Linden has written for numerous publications such as The New York Times,{{cite web|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/archives/up-and-coming-toni-braxton-her-throaty-alto-gently-echoes-an.html|title=UP AND COMING: Toni Braxton; Her Throaty Alto Gently Echoes An Earlier Era|page=38|author=Linden, Amy|date=December 5, 1993}}{{cite web|newspaper=The New York Times|title=POP MUSIC; With Help From Roberta Flack, The Fugees Are Redefining Rap|page=24|author=Linden, Amy|date=May 26, 1996|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/26/arts/pop-music-with-help-from-roberta-flack-the-fugees-are-redefining-rap.html}} The Village Voice,{{cite web|newspaper=The Village Voice|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/all-hail-the-ronette-from-hell/|title=All Hail the Ronette From Hell|author=Linden, Amy|date=January 16, 2007}} Al Jazeera America{{cite web|url=https://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/l/amy-linden.html|title=Amy Linden|archivedate=January 13, 2015|date=2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113005947/https://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/l/amy-linden.html|publisher=Al Jazeera America}} and Vanity Fair.{{cite web|url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1990/10/sight-and-sound|title=Sight and Sound|date=October 1990|author=Linden, Amy|magazine=Vanity Fair}}

She is also known as a co-host on the VH1 music review television series Four on the Floor.{{cite news|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007004904/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/vh1-spotlight-puts-harris-floor-article-1.692747|archivedate=October 7, 2013|newspaper=New York Daily News|title=VH1's Spotlight Puts Harris on 'Floor'|author=Hinckley, David|date=December 3, 1995|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/vh1-spotlight-puts-harris-floor-article-1.692747|accessdate=October 3, 2013}}

Media

Linden has been praised by fellow music critics, journalist Kandia Crazy Horse told Rolling Stone that working on 2004's anthology Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll with Linden was very gratifying.{{cite web|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=Breaking Through Rock Journalism's Boys' Club|date=October 23, 2023|author=Legaspi, Althea|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/women-rock-critics-music-journalism-misogyny-change-1234853829/}}

Esquire magazine's music journalist Alan Light called Linden prescient in her analysis of singer Amy Winehouse.{{cite web|magazine=Esquire|title=Why Amy Winehouse Endures|author=Light, Alan|date=July 23, 2021|url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a37090839/amy-winehouse-10-year-anniversary-essay/}}

In 2023, Linden, who in 2014 was made a member of the Rock Hall nominating committee, correctly predicted on her podcast that the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony would be held in New York City and not Cleveland.{{cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/2023-rock-hall-ceremony-will-take-place-in-new-york-city-nominating-committee-member-says.html|title=2023 Rock Hall ceremony will take place in New York City, nominating committee member says|date=February 25, 2023|author=Morona, Joey|publisher=Cleveland.com}} The event was later held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on November 2, 2023.{{cite web|publisher=Barclays Center|website=barclayscenter.com|title=38th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony|date=2023|url=https://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/38th-annual-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-2023}}

Linden also co-hosts the Immaletyoufinish podcast.{{cite web|publisher=iHeartRadio|title=Immaletyoufinish|url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-immaletyoufinish-83251880/}}

References

External links

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{{Facebook|100063502273536|Immaletyoufinish podcast}}
[https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/amy-linden Amy Linden] at Rock's Backpages
[https://pendulumswing.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/the-trove-amy-linden/ The Trove: Amy Linden]
[https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/blogs/hear-me-out Hearing Health Foundation]
[https://mysmallstory.com/2011/06/22/culture-critic-amy-linden-on-28-yrs-in-fort-greene-rafael-saadiq-obama/ My Small Story: Culture Critic Amy Linden]

Category:Living people

Category:American music critics

Category:American music journalists

Category:People from New York (state)

Category:American columnists

Category:American music podcasters

Category:Jewish American journalists

Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers

Category:Jewish women writers

Category:American women columnists

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:21st-century American women writers