List Of Writers On Popular Music

This is a list of writers on popular music *

Lorraine Ali Lorraine Ali is an American journalist and pundit who is a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards board of jurors. Based in Los Angeles, California, she is a television critic at the ''Los Angeles Times,'' where she was previously a senior wri ...

* Harry Allen *

Hilton Als Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yor ...

* Gina Arnold *

E. Ruth Anderson Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907, Newport, Rhode Island – 24 November 1989, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American musicologist, weather observer, and editor. Biography Anderson attended the New England Conservatory of Music from 1924 to ...

* Michael Azerrad * Lester Bangs * J. Bennett * Vladimir Bogdanov *

Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lynn Affleck (' Lopez; born July 24, 1969), also known as J.Lo, is an American singer, actress and dancer. In 1991, she began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on the sketch comedy television series ''In Living Color'', where she rema ...

Wayne Baker Brooks Wayne Baker Brooks (born April 30, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer. Biography The son of the Chicago blues musician Lonnie Brooks, he joined his father's band playing guitar in the band ...

* Bart Bull * Garry Bushell * Jeff Chang * John Chilton * Ian Christe *

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...

* Donald Clarke * Ta-Nehisi Coates * Ray Coleman * J.D. Considine * Richard Cook * Karl Coryat * Charles R. Cross * Cameron Crowe * Tony Cummings *

Stanley Dance Stanley Frank Dance (15 September 1910, Braintree, Essex – 23 February 1999, Vista, California) was a British jazz writer, business manager, record producer, and historian of the Swing era. He was personally close to Duke Ellington over a lon ...

* Lynnée Denise * Anthony DeCurtis * Charles Delaunay * Jim DeRogatis * Jaquira Díaz * Peter Doggett * Robert Duncan * Paul Du Noyer * Alice Echols * Chuck Eddy * Jenny Eliscu * Michael Erlewine *

Stephen Thomas Erlewine Stephen Thomas Erlewine (; born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for the online music database AllMusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for AllMusic, as well as a freelance writer, occ ...

* Kodwo Eshun * John Fahey *

Anthony Fantano Anthony Fantano ( ; born October 28, 1985) is an American music critic and YouTuber who runs the YouTube channel The Needle Drop and its tie-in website. He discusses and reviews music from a variety of genres in his YouTube videos and on his we ...

* Mick Farren * Leonard Feather * Wendy Fonarow *

Ben Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres ( 方振豪; Cantonese: Fong Chan Ho; born January 7, 1945) is an American rock journalist best known for his association with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine (until 1981) and the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (from around 1982). B ...

* Sasha Frere-Jones * David Fricke * Simon Frith *

Donna Gaines Donna Gaines is a sociologist, journalist, and social worker in the United States. Gaines is best known for her work on youth suicide and popular culture. Gaines has written features for ''Rolling Stone'', ''MS'', the ''Village Voice'', ''Spin ...

* Paul Gambaccini * Peter Gammond * Nelson George * Charlie Gillett * Ira Gitler * Daniel Glass * Joe Glazer *

Leslie Gourse Roberta Leslie Gourse (January 1, 1939 – December 23, 2004) was an American writer and biographer who was a prolific writer on jazz music and musicians. In 1991, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her the Deems T ...

* Gary Graff * Bill Graham * Edward Greenfield * George Grove * Peter Guralnick * dream hampton * John Harris * Will Hermes *

Stephen Holden Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic. Biography Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually be ...

* Amelia Ishmael * Maura Johnston * Allan Jones * Mark Kemp * Nick Kent * Chuck Klosterman * Cub Koda * Greg Kot * Jon Landau * Peter Lang *

Peter Laughner Peter Laughner (August 22, 1952 – June 22, 1977) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. A native of Bay Village, Ohio, Laughner was described by Richie Unterberger as "probably the single biggest catalyst in the birth of Clev ...

Minna Lederman Minna Lederman Daniel (3 March 189629 October 1995) was a music writer and editor of the magazine ''Modern Music'' for more than 20 years. Life Lederman was born in Manhattan and studied music, dance and drama as a child. She graduated from Barnard ...

Sarah Lewitinn Sarah Lewitinn (born February 3, 1980), also known by her nickname Ultragrrrl, is an American record producer, music critic, DJ, blogger, and music director for the Canadian fashion brand, Aritzia. She began her career as an assistant editing, e ...

* Alan Light * Greil Marcus *

Dave Marsh Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950) is an American music critic, and radio talk show host. He was an early editor of ''Creem'' magazine, has written for various publications such as ''Newsday'', ''The Village Voice'', and ''Rolling Stone (magazine), ...

Tris McCall Tris McCall is a music journalism, music journalist, novelist, and rock musician from Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County, New Jersey, described by ''The New York Times'' as "the plugged-in, Internet-era muse of Jersey City." In 2010, he b ...

* Joel McIver * Legs McNeil * Richard Meltzer * John Mendelsohn *

Sia Michel Sia Michel (born May 17, 1967, in Erie, Pennsylvania) is the deputy culture editor of '' The New York Times''. Before her promotion to that position in 2018, she was the editor of Arts & Leisure and pop music editor for the "Times", which she had ...

* Brett Milano * Scott Miller * Jeffrey Morgan * Paul Morley * Charles Shaar Murray * Noel Murray * Ed Naha * Paul Nelson * Lucy O'Brien * Rob O'Connor *

Robert Palmer Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and wikt:sartorial, sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining Soul music, so ...

* John Peck (as "

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") * Mark J. Petracca * Amanda Petrusich * Ann Powers * David Quantick * Nathan Rabin *

Simon Reynolds Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his professional career on the staff of ''Melody Maker'' in the mid-1980s. He has since gone on to freelance and publish a number of full-length books on music ...

* Tim Riley *

Lisa Robinson Lisa Robinson is an American journalist and writer. She was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and attended The Bronx High School of Science and Syracuse University. She was married to the late music producer and radio host R ...

* John Rockwell * Jody Rosen *

Alex Ross Nelson Alexander Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist known primarily for his painted interiors, covers, and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries ''Marvels'', on which he collaborated wi ...

* Kelefa Sanneh * Jon Savage * Ryan Schreiber * Jane Scott * Joel Selvin * Rob Sheffield *

Sylvie Simmons Sylvie Simmons is a London-born, California-based music journalist, named as a "principal player" in Paul Gorman's book on the history of the rock music press '' In Their Own Write'' (Sanctuary Publishing, 2001). A widely regarded writer and roc ...

* Patti Smith * Mat Snow * Bill Spooner * Marc Spitz * Neil Strauss * Touré * Greg Tate * Jon Tiven * Nick Toczek * Nick Tosches * Touré * Everett True * Rob Tyner * Richie Unterberger * Penny Valentine * Clinton Walker * Ed Ward * Jeff Weiss * Chris Welch *

Cliff White Cliff White (9 November 1945 – 25 January 2018) was a Grammy-winning British music journalist, critic and researcher. Biography White became a fan of rock and roll music in his early teens. After leaving school in London, he worked briefly ...

* Richard Williams * Ellen Willis *

Carl Wilson Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's ''de ...

* Bob Woffinden * Douglas Wolk * Frank Worrall * Veljko Despot * Hrvoje Horvat *

Aleksandar Dragaš Aleksandar Dragaš (born 16 January 1967) is a Croatian rock critic and journalist. He has been described as one of the most prominent and influential Croatian music critics. Dragaš was born in 1967 in Zagreb, and graduated from the Faculty of Ec ...

* Petar Janjatović * Igor Vidmar * Molly Meldrum {{div col end Music journalism Criticism Popular music