Music journalism has lost its edge, wrote Kelefa Sanneh in the New Yorker recently, causing a huge stir online amongst critics and music fans. Was the age of witty and brutal music journalism dead, ...

Veteran music journalist Holly Gleason has witnessed and documented the evolution of country music over four decades. Gleason's work emphasizes understanding the emotional connection between artists, ...

As music journalism continues to both change and shrink, music editor Chris Farnsworth contemplates the future of Vermont music coverage.

Crowe arrived already so fully developed as the world’s most precocious teen scribe in the ’70s that it was hard to imagine he would ever get much better as a prose stylist, however many decades he ...

Crowe grew up in San Diego but was able to nail down Seattle’s musical ethos because he began his career as a prolific teenage music journalist, a story that turned into the autofictional 2000 film ...

In spite of all the drama in his life, he was a lucky guy, being in the right place at the right time throughout his life. He sure was. I even thought of giving speeches on “Johnny Cash’s luck.” There ...

Cutting Contest is an energetic novel about a dry-humoured and hot-tempered young trombone player on the brink of financial, professional and personal ruin. Published in September, 2025: Connie Benson ...

Over decades, she has written for Details, Spin, High Times, Us Weekly, No Depression, Rolling Stone, Downbeat, OffBeat and many other publications.