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Marc Weingarten

Marc Weingarten

Marc Weingarten is a freelance writer in Los Angeles who writes for the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer and Slate. A contributing writer for San Francisco Magazine, Weingarten's first book STATION TO STATION: THE HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL ON TELEVISION was an LA Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2000 Ralph J. Gleason award for best music book of the year. His new book on New Journalism BASED ON A TRUE STORY will be published in the fall of 2005.

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Beck: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, January 1998

BECK MAY be Modern Rock's master ironist, but he takes his roots music very seriously. They're just very gnarled roots, is all. ...

James Brown, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins: Bootsy Collins on Bootsy Collins

Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, April 1998

‘Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine’James Brown (King single, 1970) ...

Replacements, The, Soul Asylum, Jayhawks, The, Hüsker Dü: The Minneapolis Scene: Left Of The Dial

Overview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, August 1995

In the early Eighties, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and a handful of other scruffy Minneapolis bands forged what is now known as indie rock. This ...

Screaming Trees: Stranger Than Fiction

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, August 1996

The members of Screaming Trees get very little enjoyment but plenty of good music out of being in a band together. ...

Neil Young: Bio Warfare: Why did Neil Young try to squelch Shakey?

Comment by Marc Weingarten, salon.com, May 2002

SHAKEY, A 786-PAGE biography of Neil Young that's just been published, almost wasn't. For that reason, it serves as an apt metaphor for the way ...

Neil Young: Journey Through The Past

Retrospective by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, September 1995

Neil Young is the ageless chameleon of rock. In this history of his long and distinguished career, Guitar World traces his evolution from hippie icon ...

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Morning Becomes Harcourt

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

How a Brummie came to host the most respected public radio show in L.A. ...

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