- Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is chief music critic at the arts section of the "New York Times". Prior to taking up that role, in the 1970s he was an associate editor of "Crawdaddy" Magazine and in the 1980s a contributing editor to "Rolling Stone" Magazine. - Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss is a Los Angeles-based author and journalist who writes for "The New York Times" and "Rolling Stone", where he is a contributing editor. He is well-known for his best-selling book "The Game." - David Ritz
David Ritz is a very successful author who based his books on soul music legends like Ray Charles, Etta James, The Neville Brothers, Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin. However, Ritz is probably most notable for his work with the legendary Marvin Gaye. The two first met in 1978 shortly after the release of Gaye's tormented "Here, … - Rob Bowman
Rob Bowman is a Professor in Ethnomusicology. Dr. Bowman currently serves as Director of York University's Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology . He pioneered popular music studies at York University. He lectures, publishes and broadcasts in many areas of popular music, from country, R & B and gospel to reggae, rap and funk. - Richie Unterberger
Richie Unterberger (b 1962) is an American writer, particularly on rock and other popular music. From 1985 to 1991, Unterberger was an editor for "Option". Since 1993, he has been a prolific contributor to the All Music Guide, the on-line database of music biographies and album reviews, for which he has written thousands of entries. He also contributes to various publications, including "Mojo", "Record Collector", and "Rolling Stone". - Chris Welch
Chris Welch was reviewer and critic with "Melody Maker" during the 1960s and 1970s, reporting on the rise of such bands as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, If, as well as Cream. During that time he also reported on the UK jazz scene. A former local newspaper reporter, Welch joined the Melody Maker in 1964. He was later assistant editor of "Musicians Only" and editor of "Metal Hammer". - David Toop
David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine "The Face". He is a regular contributor to "The Wire", the U.K. based music magazine. - Legs McNeil
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for "Punk Magazine". He is also a former senior editor at "Spin Magazine", and the founder and editor of "Nerve" magazine (print only; 1992). - Dave Thompson
Dave Thompson is the British born author of over 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music, but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica. His first published book, "U2: Stories For Boys" (Plexus, 1985) also bears the distinction of being the first ever biography of the Irish rockers. Other notable firsts include Depeche Mode, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, ZZ Top and Simple Minds, while Thompson has also written extensively on David Bowie, … - Alypius
Alypius of Alexandria was a Greek writer on music who flourished c. 360. Of his works, only a small fragment has been preserved, under the title of "Εισαγωγη Μουσικη" ("Introduction to Music"); it was printed with the tables of notation in the "Antiquae Musicae Scriptores" of Marcus Meibomius, (in quarto, Amsterdam 1652). Meibomius not only made use of the manuscript belonging to Joseph Scaliger, … - Donald Mitchell
Donald Mitchell (born 6 February 1925 in London) is a British writer on music, particularly known for his books on Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten and for the book "The Language of Modern Music", published 1963. He was a conscientious objector in World War 2. After the war, … - Ben Watson
Ben Watson (born 1956) is a British writer on music and culture of Marxist views, known especially for his writings on Frank Zappa. Watson is well-known as a regular contributor to The Wire, as well as the author of numerous books, often entailing studies of popular culture from the perspective of Marxist aesthetics. - John Sakamoto
John Sakamoto is a Canadian journalist and music critic. He is best known for the "Anti-Hit List" column, which has appeared on canoe.ca and in "eye", the "Toronto Sun" and the "Toronto Star". He served as executive producer of canoe.ca's entertainment section, "Jam!", from 1996 to 2002. In 2005, the Anti-Hit List expanded into a biweekly podcast. - Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely-tuned pitches, … - David Hall
David Hall (born 16 December 1916) is a sound archivist and writer. - David Hurwitz
David Hurwitz is a classical music writer, record reviewer, and percussionist. He has written reviews for "High Fidelity", "Fanfare", classicstoday.com (as founder and Executive Editor), and Amazon.com. Hurwitz has written several books designed to acquaint the casual listener with classical music, including "Beethoven or Bust: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Listening to Great Music". He has also written an "Unlocking the Masters" series, … - Fred Bronson
Fredric M. Bronson is an American journalist, author and writer. He is best known for the weekly "Chart Beat" column in "Billboard magazine", and as the author of books related to "Billboard" charts. Born on January 10,1949 to Irving and Mildred Bronson and raised in California, Bronson showed an early aptitude for gauging the popularity of artists and songs. - Alan Cross
Alan Cross is a Canadian radio broadcaster and a writer on music. He is the current program director of CFNY in Toronto, Ontario, and the host of that station's most famous program, "The Ongoing History of New Music". Originally from the small prairie town of Stonewall, Manitoba, Cross began his radio career with the University of Winnipeg's campus radio station, CKUW, in 1980. - Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell (b. April 22, 1939 in Ealing Common, London, England) has undertaken many jobs in the music industry, including bandboy, manager, producer, songwriter, journalist and author. But he is best-known as manager, particularly of The Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Japan, London, Wham! and Blue Mercedes. - Paul Oliver
Paul Oliver (born 25 May 1927 in Nottingham, England) is a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has argued that vernacular architecture will be necessary in the future to "ensure sustainability in both cultural and economic terms beyond the short term." His commentary and researches into blues have been widely influential. He is well known for his 1997 work "Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World". - Neville Cardus
Sir Neville Cardus (2 April 1889 - 28 February 1975) was a celebrated English journalist. He was a music and cricket writer for the "Manchester Guardian". John Frederick Neville Cardus was born in Rusholme, Manchester. In later life he was wont to be cavalier about his date of birth but in fact it was as shown above. (It was claimed in a letter in The Times in April 1988 that it was discovered after his death that he was born in April 1888. - Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. His many books include But Beautiful , (winner of a Somerset Maugham Prize), Paris Trance , Out of Sheer Rage (a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award), and most recently, Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It . He lives in London where he spends much of his time wishing he lived in San Francisco. - Daniel Levitin
"This Is Your Brain on Music" official website. - Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Daylle Deanna Schwartz is an American author, speaker, counselor/self-empowerment coach and music industry consultant in two distinct arenas: self-empowerment and music business. She was born and raised in New York City and continues to make her home there. Schwartz's music business books include the best-selling "I Don’t Need a Record Deal! Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution", "Start & Run Your Own Record Label", … - William Gay
William Gay (b. 1943) is an American writer of novels and short stories. He was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee, which he still calls home. After high school, Gay joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War. After returning to the States, Gay lived in both New York City and Chicago before returning to Lewis County, Tennessee, where he has lived since 1978. Even though he has written since the age of fifteen, Gay did not publish anything until 1998, … - John L. Walters
John L. Walters is a former member of the band Landscape. Walters subsequently produced records for Swans Way, Kissing the Pink, Twelfth Night, The Mike Gibbs Orchestra and Mark Springer. - Joe Cole
Joe Cole (April 10 1961 - December 19 1991) was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was also the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61 publishing, "Planet Joe", in which he documented his experiences on the last Black Flag tour and first Rollins Band tour. He was shot and killed in a robbery at their home on December 19, 1991, as the pair returned from the video rental store. - Tim Footman
Tim Footman is a British author, journalist and editor. He is the author of several books about popular music, including "Welcome To The Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album" (2007, ISBN 1-84240-388-5). He has also written for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, the Bangkok Post, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Zembla and several other publications. He is a contributor to Comment is Free. From 1999 to 2001 he was the editor of the Guinness Book of Records. - Alan Walker
Alan Walker, FRSC (born 6 April 1930) is an English-Canadian musicologist and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt. - Tom Morton
Tom Morton (born December 31, 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster, and musician. He lives and works in the Shetland Islands. Morton currently (2007) has a BBC Radio Scotland music show, broadcast each weekday afternoon. He has written numerous books, including a bestselling biography of the Gaelic rock band Runrig, a whisky travelogue, and several novels. For many years, he worked as a print journalist, … - Larry Cox
Larry Cox Drummer & Author As A Drummer:<br /> Larry is a professional drummer, and currently plays for the heavy metal rock band Deaf Symphony™. He is also the co-founder/producer of the band. He has performed and recorded with numerous bands over the years, and has had the opportunity to work with several world-famous artists (see supporting documentation below). Larry is the creator, and producer, of "Do-It-Yourself Drums"®. - Joel McIver
Joel McIver (born 1971) is a British author. His best-known book to date is the bestselling "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica," published in 2004. His other works include biographies of Erykah Badu, Slipknot, Ice Cube, Black Sabbath, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Sex Pistols. McIver's work is sold worldwide but is especially popular in the USA, Australia and Scandinavia. His writing also appears in many magazines, including Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, … - Cp Lee
CP Lee is an author, broadcaster and lecturer from Manchester, England. His works include books about the singer Bob Dylan, one of which, "Like The Night (Revisited)" focuses on the 'Judas' shout aimed at Dylan at his Manchester Free Trade Hall performance in 1966, which was the climax of Martin Scorsese's documentary of Dylan, "No Direction Home". Another book - Shake, Rattle & Rain - is adapted from his PhD on Manchester Music-Making. - Ross Porter
Ross Porter is a Canadian broadcaster and music writer. Best known as the longtime host of the jazz program "After Hours" on CBC Radio Two, he became head of the jazz television channel Cool TV in 2001. In 2004, he became president and CEO of JAZZ-FM, a non-profit public radio station in Toronto devoted to jazz programming. Porter also published a consumer guide to jazz recordings, "The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs", in 2006. - Donald Francis Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (July 17, 1875 - July 10, 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer and pianist. He is best known for his "Essays in Musical Analysis". Tovey began to study the piano and compose at an early age. He eventually studied composition with Hubert Parry. Tovey became a close friend of Joseph Joachim, and played piano with the Joachim Quartet in a 1905 performance of Johannes Brahms' Piano Quintet. - Richard James Burgess
Richard James Burgess has been successful as a studio drummer, music-computer programmer, major-label artist, record producer, composer, published author, manager, marketer and inventor. - Henry Edward Krehbiel
Henry Edward Krehbiel (March 10, 1854-March 20, 1923) was an American music critic and musicologist. Krehbiel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a general education from his father, a German clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and began in 1872 the study of law in Cincinnati, Ohio. In June, 1874, he was attached to the staff of the "Cincinnati Gazette" as musical critic, which post he held until November, 1880. - Bobby Russell
Bobby Russell (19 April 1941, Nashville, Tennessee - 19 november 1992) was an American songwriter. - Darlene Koldenhoven
Darlene Koldenhoven (born in Chicago) is a singer with a 5 octave range, keyboardist musician, record producer, songwriter, author, and a Grammy Award winning artist, best known for her featured vocal solo "Aria" in "Yanni Live at the Acropolis". - Christopher Simpson
Christopher Simpson (c.1605-1669) was an English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba.
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