Chuck Eddy (born November 26, 1960) is an

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Life and career

Chuck Eddy was born in

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. After starting his journalism career with ''

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'' and ''

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'', where he published one of the first national interviews with the

Beastie Boys Beastie Boys were an American rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1978. The group was composed of Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass), and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar, programming) ...

in the mid-1980s, Eddy then wrote for ''

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'', ''

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'' and other national and local publications. He has authored four books: ''Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe'', ''The Accidental Evolution of Rock and Roll'', ''Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism'', and ''Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music''. In 1999 he was hired as the music editor at ''The Village Voice'', where he served for seven years. After being terminated on grounds of "taste" upon Village Voice Media's merger with New Times in 2006,"'Voice' in the Wilderness: Chuck Eddy Says Farewell"
, April 20, 2006. he briefly wrote a thrice-weekly heavy metal blog for

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's URGE and a monthly page of capsule CD reviews in ''

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'' called "The Last Roundup". From 2006 to 2007, he worked as a senior editor for ''Billboard'' magazine. Eddy currently freelances from

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. He has published book chapters in several anthologies, including ''The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll'' (Random House, 1992); ''

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'' (Vintage, 1995); ''Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music And Myth'' (NYU Press, 1999); ''Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth'' (Feral House, 2001); ''Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine'' (Collins, 2007); and ''1000 Songs To Change Your Life'' (Time Out, 2008.)

References

External links

Eliminated for Reasons of Space: Chuck Eddy's blog

Chuck It All In: Rhapsody blog

Singles Again: Blurt blog

Harp reviews

Spin reviews

Singles Jukebox reviews

Rolling Stone Songs of the Day

Podcast on Rolling Stone record guides, Part 1

Selected articles

Michael Jackson essay, 1991
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