Annie Zaleski is an award-winning author, journalist and editor with profiles, interviews, and criticism in a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, and Billboard. She contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript and wrote Duran Duran’s essay for their 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Annie has been a radio commentator on various music and pop culture topics and also a talking head in the 2005 movie Punk’s Not Dead and in a 2014 Ovation TV special on the band Blondie.