Andy Greene
Andy Greene is a senior writer at Rolling Stone focused on music, known for long-form interviews and narrative features that track artists across entire careers. He combines recurring interview franchises with news and list coverage, returning frequently to legacy rock performers and the musicians who step into high‑pressure roles in major bands. His work centres on access to prominent artists, a deep command of rock history, and attention to the players behind headline names.
Unknown Legends and King For a Day
Greene runs Rolling Stone’s interview series Unknown Legends and King For a Day, two franchises built around extended conversations with working musicians. Unknown Legends focuses on veteran artists who helped build iconic careers without becoming household names, giving session players, sidemen, and long‑time collaborators space to tell their own stories. King For a Day looks at singers who step into major bands after a legendary frontman departs, documenting how they handle expectations, fan scrutiny, and the mechanics of replacing a defining voice.
Across these franchises he operates as a trusted long‑form interviewer, using detailed, career‑spanning questioning to surface memories, turning points, and the realities of life inside well‑known groups.
Profiles and cover stories on major artists
Beyond his franchises, Greene writes cover stories and major features on high‑profile figures in music and pop culture.
His work includes cover pieces on Radiohead and Howard Stern, and substantial features on Bill Withers, Nathan Fielder, Steve Perry, Pete Townshend, Stephen King, and others. These assignments place him at the centre of conversations with globally recognised bands, influential broadcasters, and prominent writers, giving him recurring access to artists with long careers and complex public narratives.
He uses that access to construct pieces that move beyond current campaigns, tying present work to decades of creative decisions, personal shifts, and industry change.
Classic rock, live performances, and band dynamics
Greene’s day‑to‑day music coverage leans heavily toward classic rock performers and the live shows, tours, and intra‑band relationships that define them.
His recent work includes news and updates on Billy Joel’s attitude toward the physical impact of live concerts, framed through the singer’s long history as a touring headliner. In an interview with David Gilmour he raises the shift from past collaboration with Roger Waters to a current impasse, using the conversation to explore how long‑running creative partnerships fracture over time. He also reports from stages where established acts such as Bruce Springsteen share songs with peers and guests, documenting the setlists, guest appearances, and one‑off performances that matter to fans of legacy artists.
Film and television through a music lens
Although music is his primary beat, Greene also writes about movies and television, often where they intersect with the broader culture he covers in his music reporting.
He has produced major features on figures like Stephen King, bringing the same long‑form approach he applies to musicians to creators in adjacent fields. His authorship of a bestselling oral history of a television sitcom, built from a large number of original interviews, shows how he carries interview‑driven reporting into long‑form narrative projects beyond the magazine.
Across these pieces he treats film and television as part of the same landscape as rock and pop, linking screen work back to the artists, eras, and cultural shifts that recur in his music writing.
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Andrea Dresdale
Andrea Dresdale manages entertainment content at ABC Audio and covers music-driven pop culture for news and audio platforms. Her beat centers on chart-friendly pop, new releases, mainstream artists, awards, residencies and industry milestones. She also reports on legacy acts, anniversaries, nostalgia, remixes, live performances and music’s links to film, television, streaming and social media. Her notable coverage includes Taylor Swift, BTS, The Weeknd, Madonna, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Patty Smyth and Miley Cyrus. Her work has appeared through syndicated ABC Audio coverage on outlets such as WRMF, KS95 and Hot 96.7. Dresdale writes concise, timely pieces for radio audiences. She frames songs, tours, specials and career moments through cultural impact, fan appeal, commercial momentum and lasting relevance. Her stories connect current hits with music history and show how artists maintain attention through new releases, collaborations and reinterpretations.
Andrew Weber
Andrew Weber uses accountability reporting to examine who benefits from decisions shaping Austin’s music ecosystem. He reports for KUT as a government accountability reporter and works as a freelance reporter and associate editor for KUT News across the public radio network. His music coverage focuses on musicians’ pay at festivals, health care, mental health services, venue relief and working conditions. He treats SXSW as a workplace and economic system, reporting on low fees, sponsorships, boycotts and the political choices behind the festival. He also covers government and institutional issues, including KUT’s relationship with the University of Texas and the firing of general manager Debbie Hiott. His reporting ranges from nonprofit support systems to experimental sound art. He plays music on the side and brings digital storytelling experience, including an Edward R. Murrow award for social media work.
Anna Grace Lee
Anna Grace Lee is a Vogue reporter who covers pop musicians and celebrities through fashion, weddings, and lifestyle culture, focusing on dresses, events, pets, and subcultures rather than industry news. She writes scene-driven features that place entertainers in vivid settings, from villas to underground food markets, and treats music-adjacent stories as fashion and craftsmanship narratives. Her Dua Lipa Sicily wedding coverage shows how she frames a wedding dress as a haute couture moment and a pop-cultural milestone, emphasizing design, making, and handwork. Her Millie Bobby Brown miniature poodle piece reflects a consistent interest in celebrity pets, fandom, and off-stage persona. She also reports lifestyle features like Brooklyn’s buzziest underground cheese sale, embedding in niche food scenes. At Vogue she contributes to weddings, celebrity, living, and Met Gala coverage, and maintains a portfolio of culture and lifestyle work built around entertainment-adjacent storytelling.
Anne Erickson
Anne Erickson is a rock and metal specialist who covers heavy, guitar-driven bands, tours and festivals while also working as a radio host and musician. She serves as an editor and reporter at 95.9 The Rat, focusing on current rock and metal news, album cycles, world tours and major announcements. Her pieces range from straight news to feature rundowns on Evanescence campaigns, Metallica deep cuts and Måneskin’s Sanremo reunion, and she reports incidents that matter to fans, such as recovered stolen gear. She treats festivals and tours as beats of their own, tracking lineups and expanded runs like Louder Than Life and major tour milestones. Erickson also writes on classic bands, deep cuts, anniversaries and cinematic crossovers, with bylines at Ultimate Classic Rock, Loudwire, guitar publications and as a trending news writer for Men’s Journal. Her award-winning work includes interviews with leading rock and sports figures and is shaped by her ongoing role in the band Upon Wings.