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Wayne Robins has been writing about rock since 1969; his first paying gig was reviewing the Rolling Stones, Ike and Tina Turner, B.B. King and Terry Reid at Oakland (Calif.) Coliseum for the Berkeley Barb during a hiatus from Bard College, where Fagen and Becker would occasionally play at impromptu Trips Festivals.
After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1972, an academic career highlighted by seeing Elvis Presley perform in Denver, he somehow landed a job in his native New York City as editor/writer for CBS Records’ Playback magazine. Writing for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, but especially Creem, he moved to Birmingham, Mich. in March, 1975 to become editor of Creem magazine, where he spent six months. Returning home to New York, he followed Robert Christgau, Dave Marsh and Tony Kornheiser as pop writer for Newsday and New York Newsday, a gig which lasted from 1975-1993.
It was then he decided he’d rather write about meatloaf than Meat Loaf, and joined the newspaper’s food department. With the closing of New York Newsday in 1995, Robins wrote food columns for the Newark Star-Ledger and the N.Y. Daily News, became the "Raising Daddy" columnist for MSNBC.com in 1998, taught journalism and received his Master’s degree as the Chen Sam/Elizabeth Arden fellow at the New York University graduate school of journalism’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism section.
He wrote a bookette, VH1’s Behind the Music: 1968 (2000), which really wasn’t bad for a work made for hire. Now he’s writing a cultural history of rock music aimed at today’s youth, neglects his Weblog (waynerobins.blogspot.com) and is a copy editor at Billboard magazine. He lives with his wife and two of his three daughters in Queens, N.Y., in an out of the way neighborhood near the Whitestone Bridge. He can be reached at w2robins@mac.com or wrobins@billboard.com
List of articles in the library by artist
Ace: Five-a-Side
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, May 1975
Aerosmith : No Fear Of Flying Aero Smith
Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975
Amon Düül : Amon Duul II: Wolf City
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, June 1973
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke: What A Bloody Long Day It's Been (Capitol)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1972
Black Sabbath: Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath (Warner Bros.)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, April 1974
Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (Columbia)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1975
Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky (Asylum)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1975
Eric Clapton: E.C. Was Here
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, November 1975
Leonard Cohen : The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Folkie: Leonard Cohen
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, November 1992
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, The : Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose (United Artists)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, November 1972
Doobie Brothers: The Reward Of Facelessness
Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1975
Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, October 1992
Eminem At The Top Of His Underclass: 8 Mile
Review by Wayne Robins, waynerobins.blogspot.com, November 2002
Brian Eno : Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)/Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975
Brian Eno : Roxy Music: Country Life/Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1976
Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, November 1976
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
Review by Wayne Robins, Boston Phoenix, May 2004
Funkadelic : Parliament/Funkadelic: Halloween Mutants Invade Louisiana
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, December 1976
Good Rats, The : The Good Rats: American Band Via Long Island
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, April 1974
Ian Hunter: Ian Hunter (Columbia)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1975
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (MCA)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1975
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1974
Carole King: Fantasy (A&M)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, October 1973
LaBelle: Phoenix
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1975
Arthur Lee: Vindicator
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, November 1972
John Lennon: Walls And Bridges (Apple)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1975
Little Richard: AWOP-BOP-ALOO-MOP-ALOP-BAM-BOOM!
Profile by Wayne Robins, Newsday, June 1992
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Get Your Rocks Off
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1973
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Nightingales and Bombers
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1976
Bob Marley & the Wailers : Bob Marley and The Wailers: Kaya (Island)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1978
Curtis Mayfield: Back To The World (Curtom)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, July 1973
Joni Mitchell: Miles of Aisles (Asylum)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975
Joni Mitchell: Jones Beach Theater, New York
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, July 1983
New York Dolls: New York Dolls (Mercury)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, October 1973
New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon (Mercury)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, August 1974
Parliament/Funkadelic: Halloween Mutants Invade Louisiana
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, December 1976
Billy Preston
Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1974
Lou Reed: Rock N Roll Animal (RCA)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, April 1974
Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)/Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975
Roxy Music: Country Life/Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1976
Todd Rundgren: Todd
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1974
Carly Simon : James Taylor: Gorilla (Warner Bros.)/Carly Simon: Playing Possum (Elektra)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975
Simon & Garfunkel Reunite: It's Paul, But Is It Art?
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, December 1975
Sonic Youth : Seeking Sonic Truth On Murray Street: Sonic Youth
Comment by Wayne Robins, waynerobins.blogspot.com, September 2002
Bruce Springsteen: Into the Future
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, April 1988
Steely Dan: Katy Lied
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1975
Steely Dan: Hey 19: It's About Time
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, March 2002
Steely Dan: Walking Slow, Drinking Alone, And Moving Swiftly Through The Night...
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, NME, February 1974
Rod Stewart
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, May 1993
James Taylor: Gorilla (Warner Bros.)/Carly Simon: Playing Possum (Elektra)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975
Temptations, The : The Temptations: Masterpiece
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1973
T. Rex : T-Rex: Tanx
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1973
Wackers, The : The Wackers: Shredder
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1973
Stevie Wonder: Further Fulfillingness
Interview by Wayne Robins, Melody Maker, November 1974
Link Wray: Be What You Want To
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, May 1973
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night (Reprise) List of genre pieces Paul Wasserman, Press Agent and Friend
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975
Obituary by Wayne Robins,
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