Ann K. Powers (born February 4, 1964) is an American writer and popular music critic. She is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously chief pop critic. She has also written for other publications, such as The New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice. Powers is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, a memoir; Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, on eroticism in American pop music; and Piece by Piece, co-authored with Tori Amos.
Books in order of publication:
Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap. London: Plexus. – 1995
Weird like us – 2000
Tori Amos, piece by piece : a portrait of the artist : her thoughts, her conversations – 2005
Best music writing 2010 – 2010
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music – 2017
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell – 2024
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