Nick Tosches, a former rock critic whose biographies and novels made him one of New York’s most respected writers, died today at his Manhattan home. He was 69 and his death was confirmed by a friend, who could not provide a cause.
Tosches started in the 1960s in the heyday of Creem magazine, helping define the emerging world of rock journalism and its ties to various genres. He was part of a trio of music writers with Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs that some called “the Noise Boys” for their irreverant style.
His first book, however, veered away from rock. In Country. some of country music’s lesser-known stylists was explored. He repeated the exercise in his later Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll, exploring some of that genre’s obscure but important artists.
His first biography, Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story” profiled the volatile keyboardist, and and in...
Tosches started in the 1960s in the heyday of Creem magazine, helping define the emerging world of rock journalism and its ties to various genres. He was part of a trio of music writers with Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs that some called “the Noise Boys” for their irreverant style.
His first book, however, veered away from rock. In Country. some of country music’s lesser-known stylists was explored. He repeated the exercise in his later Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll, exploring some of that genre’s obscure but important artists.
His first biography, Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story” profiled the volatile keyboardist, and and in...
- 10/20/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Nick Tosches, the novelist and music journalist who penned acclaimed books about subjects ranging from Jerry Lee Lewis and Hall & Oates to Sonny Liston and country music, has died at the age of 69.
The New York Times confirmed Tosches died Sunday at his Manhattan home. No cause of death was announced, but a friend told the Times that Tosches had been ill.
In a Rolling Stone review of The Nick Tosches Reader – and an overview of the “Noise Boys” music critics that include Tosches, Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer – Robert Christgau called Tosches,...
The New York Times confirmed Tosches died Sunday at his Manhattan home. No cause of death was announced, but a friend told the Times that Tosches had been ill.
In a Rolling Stone review of The Nick Tosches Reader – and an overview of the “Noise Boys” music critics that include Tosches, Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer – Robert Christgau called Tosches,...
- 10/20/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Robert Christgau is one of the most influential rock critics of all time. He’s also an invaluable book critic, and now he’s releasing Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading, via Duke University Press, a collection of reviews covering everything from fiction to cultural theory to musicology. In this classic piece, which originally appeared in the Village Voice in 2000, he dives into three books by fellow rock critics: Jim DeRogatis’s Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
In a 1983 Village Voice piece, gonzo critic Richard Meltzer praised the Minutemen for, among other things, the raw poetry of the band’s lyrics—“whether or not (and ‘relevantly’ or not) its meter-and-pulse as delivered (recited, ‘sung’) has ever particularly meshed with that of its music accompaniment (which of course is the Point).” Clearly he saw kindred spirits in the avant-punk group’s two singers, guitarist D. Boon and bassist Mike Watt. Soon after, Meltzer offered the Minutemen 10 of his own poems—“spiels”—in hopes of collaborating. That hope was dashed in 1985 when Boon died in a ...
- 1/17/2012
- avclub.com
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