On Aug. 11, 1965, a 22-year-old Regina Jones answered the first 911 call about the Watts Rebellion. She was working as a Los Angeles Police Department dispatcher during one of the largest police ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s not quite December yet, but the frenzy that is music journalism’s year-end list-making has already begun. Paste today released their list of The 50 Best Albums of 2012, with a nod to Damien ...

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 ...