Carrie Brownstein on a Portrait of Cat Power by Richard Avedon

Pay attention and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our each day e-newsletter to get the perfect of The New Yorker in your inbox.For The New Yorker’s collection Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia”—writes about an everlasting rock-and-roll picture. In the summertime of 2003, the musician Chan Marshall, higher referred to as Cat Energy, was transitioning from an indie darling to a serious rock artist, and the employees author Hilton Als wrote a profile of her on this journal. Going through his piece was a full-page portrait of Marshall, by the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon, that places her within the lineage of rock rebels of generations previous. With an extended ash dangling from her cigarette, a Bob Dylan T-shirt, and her denims half unzipped, Cat Energy “possibly doesn’t give a shit about being in The New Yorker,” Brownstein says, “which I can’t say is normally the vibe.” Avedon’s picture reminds Brownstein “to maintain remembering . . . to maintain going again to that place that feels sacred and particular and uncynical.”Carrie Brownstein’s Tackle Richard Avedon’s portrait of Cat Energy appeared within the April 28, 2025, situation of The New Yorker.New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop each Tuesday and Friday. Comply with the present wherever you get your podcasts.The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.