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From the Archives: Gary Graff (2002)
Losin’ His Mind in Detroit Rock City: Gary Graff By Steven Ward (January 2002) Gary Graff first earned his reputation in the mid ’80s as the in-house music critic for the Detroit Free Press, a stint...
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From the Archives: Alan Light (2002)
Interview with Spin’s Alan Light By Steven Ward and Scott Woods (January 2002) This site tips its hat all over the place to people who write about pop music but perhaps not enough has been said about...
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From the Archives: Father Charley Crespo (2002)
From Hard Rock to Rock of Ages: Former Hit Parader Writer, Father Charley Crespo By Steven Ward (February 2002) Back in the ’70s and ’80s, Charley Crespo frequented the rock clubs of New York and New...
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From the Archives: Jim DeRogatis (Part I) (2002)
A Spontaneous Explosion of Personality: Jim DeRogatis By Andrew Lapointe (March 2002) Rock critic Jim DeRogatis is the author of Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Rock from the ’60s to the ’90s, and Let...
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From the Archives: DeRogatis, Ward, and Woods (2002)
Three Boys and a Tape Recorder: Conversation Between Jim DeRogatis Takes Aim at Rock Critics and at rockcritics.com Conversation between DeRogatis, Steven Ward, and Scott Woods (March 2002) Jim...
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From the Archives: Chuck Eddy (2002)
Chuck E… So Addictive: Voice Music Editor in His Second rockcritics.com Interview By Steven Ward (March 2002) Rock critic Chuck Eddy. Love or hate? Let us count the ways… I love Chuck Eddy because his...
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From the Archives: Greil Marcus Online Exchange (2002)
Online Exchange with Greil Marcus (April 2002) Rockcritics.com readers were invited to submit questions to music critic Greil Marcus, who sent his responses by e-mail. [2013 note: this exchange is...
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From the Archives: Tom Carson (2002)
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Bring in the Trash: Tom Carson Talks Straight By Scott Woods and Steven Ward (April 2002) Despite being “recruited at the last minute” as a replacement, and just 22 years old at the...
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From the Archives: Alan Niester (2002)
Creem’s Canadian Connection: Interview with Alan Niester By Andrew Lapointe (April 2002) Barbeques and weekend trips with Lester Bangs, dangerous encounters on Cass Avenue in Detroit, and the...
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Interview with Frank Owen
At Spin, writing the Singles column, you were sounding the horn about dance music. Did you go in there with that as a mission? At the time that was definitely it. Nobody treated dance music seriously...
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From the Archives: Jaan Uhelszki (2002)
Jaan Uhelszki: Confessions of a Former Subscription Kid By Scott Woods (April 2002) As one of Creem‘s senior Editors during the ’70s, Detroit native Jaan Uhelszki was an integral voice during that...
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From the Archives: Sarah Zupko (2002)
Why Pop Matters: Interview with Sarah Zupko By Barbara Flaska (May 2002) It’s a challenge to catch up with Sarah Zupko for an interview. First and foremost, she works in a demanding field. By day, Ms...
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Old Meltzer Interview
This PDF version of a fanzine called Osmotic Tongue Pressure (dated… 1999, maybe?) features a very lengthy interview with Richard Meltzer. “I want to make a case that ‘Surfin’ Bird’ is the most...
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Zappa (10): Interview with Barbara Flaska
Barbara Flaska, a longtime contributor to rockcritics.com (she has also been published at PopMatters), has been posting all sorts of stuff about Zappa on her long-running blog, Flaskaland. What she’s...
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From the Archives: Nathan Brackett (2002)
Rolling Stone Editor Nathan Brackett Snubs Breakfast Reviews, Predicts Klezmer Kraze By Jason Gross (June 2002) You may not think you know who Nathan Brackett is but trust me, you know his work. I’m...
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From the Archives: Michael Goldberg (2002)
The Goldberg Variations: Neumu Editor Addicted to Criticism By Barbara Flaska (July 2002) Michael Goldberg has stacked up so many fine achievements that reading through his biography can be alternately...
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From the Archives: Rick Johnson (2002)
Rick Johnson Is Alive and Well and Living in Macomb By Andrew Lapointe (July 2002) Former rock critic and Creem magazine writer, Rick Johnson, is alive and well. Many followers of rock criticism have...
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From the Archives: Robert Christgau (2002)
Answers From the Dean: Online Exchange with Robert Christgau (August 2002) The second in our hopefully continuing series of online exchanges features Village Voice Senior Editor, Robert Christgau....
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From the Archives: Steve Hochman (2002)
L.A.Times Kinda Guy: Interview With Steve Hochman By Steven Ward (September 2002) Los Angeles Times music writer Steve Hochman earned my eternal respect when he penned the introductory essay for the...
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From the Archives: Richard Williams (2002)
Out of His Pen: The Words of Richard Williams By Simon Warner (September 2002) In U.S. culture, the rock critic is valued, even venerated. From Lester Bangs to Dave Marsh, from Ben Fong-Torres to Greil...
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