Lester Bangs

  • The big Bangs

    A former Creem magazine colleague of Lester Bangs remembers -- and members of the Doors, the MC5, Blondie and the Mekons respond to -- the late, great rock critic's bracing vitriol.
    By Roberta Cruger September 3, 2003

  • "Some sliver of authenticity from the truckloads of stinking garbage"

    After reading Lester Bangs' collection, you have to wonder: What would the legendary critic, who believed that music mattered, make of today's Britney and P.Diddy ludicrousness?
    By Andrew Leonard September 3, 2003

  • Gritty city

    The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books.
    By Nelson George May 22, 2000

  • Did Lester Bangs die in vain?

    Jim DeRogatis' solid new biography argues that "America's greatest rock critic" spawned a generation of self-absorbed hacks -- and a neutered music press that wouldn't have a place for him anymore.
    By Ira Robbins April 4, 2000

  • Nick Tosches, the man in the leopard-skin loafers

    The author of "Dino," "Hellfire" and the forthcoming "The Devil and Sonny Liston" talks about the Mysterious Pig Iron Man, Hollywood and snake wrangling in Florida.
    By Rex Doane November 12, 1999

  • Sharps & Flats

    Arto Lindsay graduated from horrible noise to gently beautiful music. It only took 20 years.
    By Seth Mnookin October 28, 1999

  • Bring me the fat head of Elton John

    Young men once fretted over sculpting the future, not whether they were going to get a sweaty power-handshake. What happened?
    By Cintra Wilson October 28, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Garage days revisited: Two reissues re-introduce the trashy sounds and perverted pop of the Flamin' Groovies.
    By Geoff Edgers August 2, 1999

  • Looking for life in all the wrong places

    Thanks to snorefests like the Umbilical Brothers' "Thwack," comedy is deader than Lester Bangs -- and someone is not amused.
    By Cintra Wilson June 16, 1999
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