Rock Criticism and the Rocker: A Conversation With Peter Buck
Anthony DeCurtis, Rocking My Life Away, 1998
IN SEPTEMBER 1994 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck kindly took time off from promoting R.E.M.'s Monster to do an interview with
Anthony DeCurtis, who wanted an artist's perspective on rock criticism.
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