Steve Bloom
• Publisher of CelebStoner.com, one of the leading sources for marijuana and celebrity news on the web since 2007.
• Former editor of High Times from 1988-2007, and producer of the Stony and Doobie award shows and the two Hempilation benefit albums for NORML (1995 and 1998) while at High Times.
• Former editor-in-chief of Freedom Leaf magazine and freedomleaf.com from 2014-2019.
• Co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life (Abrams Image, 2007) and Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide (Abrams Image, 2010) with Shirley Halperin.
• Appeared in the following movies: Cypress Hill: Insane in the Membrane (2022), The Culture High (2014) and Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008).
• Music journalist since 1978. Articles published in Rolling Stone, USA Today, New York Daily News, Newsday, Soho Weekly News, Village Voice, Musician, Down Beat, Record, High Times, Relix and more. Saw Hendrix, Joplin and Duane Allman.
• Worked at the Schaefer Music Festival in 1970.
• Born Oct. 17, 1954. Lives in Bronx, NY.
14 articles
List of articles in the library
The Brecker Brothers: Brecker Brothers: The Studio And Its Discontents
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, 21 June 1979
It would be nice if we're going to do this to say some shit. I don't know what, but I'd really like for once to ...
Earl Klugh: P... Lucking Out In The Material World
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, March 1980
THE TERM "Second Generation Fusion," recently coined by this publication as a handle for certain younger, so-called "jazz" musicians, is nebulous at best. Some included ...
Defunkt, James White and The Blacks: Defunkt: Jazz-Punk-Funk
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, June 1981
THE PURPLE tights and checkered t-shirt crowd knows for sure. They meet to the beat every night in sundry rock clubs, discharging a generationful of ...
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, February 1982
The sound is metallic and airy and generally reminiscent of a flute, but there is no flute. The next sound thumps and bomps like a ...
Wynton Marsalis Under Fire: "It's Like I'm The Enemy Now"
Interview by Steve Bloom, Record, September 1983
IT TAKES a rare kind of chutzpah to tell Johnny Carson where to go. Wynton Marsalis, Downbeat's "Musician of the Year" in 1982, did just ...
Earth, Wind & Fire, Jennifer Holliday: Jennifer Holliday: Feel My Soul (Geffen)
Review by Steve Bloom, Record, January 1984
FEEL MY Soul is the best Earth, Wind & Fire album to come along in four years; produced by Maurice White, EW&F's founding father, it ...
Philip Bailey: Continuation (Columbia)
Review by Steve Bloom, Record, January 1984
PHILIP BAILEY, like the Commodores' Walter Orange, is one of those overlooked vocalists who has had to settle for a career of group success over ...
Kool and the Gang: Gold Isn't Good Enough
Interview by Steve Bloom, Record, May 1984
After some lean years Kool and the Gang are thinking platinum again ...
Cameo: She's Strange (Atlanta Artists/Polygram)
Review by Steve Bloom, Record, July 1984
BACK IN the days when there was a record company called Chocolate City, a group named Cameo gave the label instant credibility. Cameo's 1977 debut, ...
Linda Ronstadt: An Intimate Conversation with Linda Ronstadt
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, July 1985
LINDA RONSTADT is into French poodles these days. Basking in the glow of two consecutive platinum albums — filled with orchestrated arrangements of what she ...
Sheila E., Prince: The Glamorous Life: The Sheila E. Coverup
Interview by Steve Bloom, Record, December 1985
SOMEWHERE I read that Sheila E. was fed up with the lingerie look, yet here she is wearing a lacey white outfit that is "dressed ...
Luther Vandross: Give Me The Reason (Epic)
Review by Steve Bloom, Musician, January 1987
DESPITE FOUR consecutive platinum albums — and Give Me Reason is sure to be his fifth — Luther Vandross has not really come very far ...
Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington: Mercer Ellington: Duke's heir accepts no substitutes
Interview by Steve Bloom, Musician, December 1987
I TOOK THE A train to Mercer Ellington's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. There I was, sitting in the train, flipping through Duke Ellington ...
Jane Ira Bloom, Steve Coleman, Kenny G, Grover Washington Jr: Kenny G et al: Safe Sax
Report and Interview by Steve Bloom, Musician, July 1988
What's Sales Got to Do With It? A Lot. ...
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