Fred Schruers
Fred Schruers' writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Circus, Premiere and Entertainment Weekly. He wrote a business blog about the entertainment industry at Portfolio.com, in addition to being one of Premiere magazine's most loved-and-feared figures (he wrote the annual Power List). Fred is currently a senior writer for TheWrap.com.
List of articles in the library by artist
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, January 1993
THE CORRECT ROCK 'N' ROLL ANSWER to society's "What are you rebelling against?" has always been Brando's "Whaddya got?" In this regard, Black Crowes frontman ...
Bruce Springsteen and the Secret of the World
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, February 1981
FAME GRIPS A JERSEY BOY... BUT HE GETS OUT UNSCATHED ...
Retrospective by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, August 1997
On May 29, just as he was to begin recording the follow-up to his acclaimed album, Grace, JEFF BUCKLEY decided to take a swim in ...
T-Bone Burnett, Warren Zevon: T-Bone Burnett: Bottom Line, New York NY
Live Review by Fred Schruers, Musician, February 1984
America as Fallen Starlet ...
Joe Cocker's Island Renaissance
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, July 1982
THE NOONDAY sun has come and gone over the town of Nassau, the Bahamas, and Joe Cocker's afternoon boating party, which left port as proper ...
Elvis Costello is Angry and Convincing: This Year's Model Fulfils Every New Wave Expectation
Profile by Fred Schruers, Circus, June 1978
IT'S 1:30AM IN the Bootlegger Lounge in Syracuse, NY. Elvis Costello, the one with the owlish stare and the spitting mad vocals, the man whose ...
Report by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, May 1979
Elvis Costello puts his foot in his mouth ...
Elvis Costello: Fathers & Sons: The Costellos
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, November 1999
DECLAN MACMANUS took to the stage in 1977, an angry young man sporting Buddy Holly glasses and a strange name: Elvis Costello. But he wasn't ...
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, June 1990
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON occupies an unusual place among American songwriters. His songs have been covered by such legends as his inspiration Bob Dylan ('They Killed Him'), ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young: Ragged But Right
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, February 1991
RIGHT THIS minute out here on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, the future of gutbucket rock stands in some question. ...
Rodney Crowell: A Songwriter Surfaces
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, August 1980
'Ashes by Now': his first hit ...
Sheryl Crow: She Only Wants To Be With You
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, November 1996
"CAN WE TALK?" Sheryl Crow plants a hand on her right hip and addresses what she calls a "granola crowd" packed tight in the Santa ...
Ian Dury: Tales of sex & drugs & rock & roll
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, June 1978
IAN DURY, between sets at the Bottom Line, is lolling on a chair in the just-cleared club. "With, with, wiv, with," he says. "Not for ...
Dave Edmunds: D.E.7th (Columbia)
Review by Fred Schruers, Musician, June 1982
THE CHORDS in the title of D.E.7th are, of course, a conspicuous pun on the fact that this is Edmunds' seventh solo record. The question ...
Donald Fagen Revisits an Era of Innocence
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, January 1983
"LACK OF IRONY," says Donald Fagen with a wry grin, "is not exactly my specialty." It's an odd apology – more like a boast – ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.)
Review by Fred Schruers, Circus, April 1977
YOU COULD look it up. After 10 years and a like number of frequently boring albums (some great stuff in there, too), these penguin fanciers ...
Fleetwood Mac: Back In The Chain Gang
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, October 1997
Fleetwood Mac were the lovingest, fightingest, druggingest band of the '70s. Twenty years later, the psychodrama continues… ...
Robert Fripp's Public Exposure
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, July 1979
The return to 'an intelligent way of living' ...
Emmylou Harris: Full House at the Elite Hotel
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, March 1978
Emmylou Harris' Fourth LP Is a Grand and Seedy Selection ...
Jan Hammer, Jeff Beck: Jeff Beck & Jan Hammer: More Lively Than Wired
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, June 1977
Jeff Beck Explodes With The Jan Hammer Group Live ...
Jesse Winchester: Winchester '77: Jesse Trades His Burden For A Breeze
Interview by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, July 1977
MONTREAL— Hands jammed into his back pockets, Jesse Winchester stands at the window staring holes through the spring snowstorm. Birch logs spit and crack reassuringly ...
B.B. King: Mississippi Homecoming
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, November 1989
RILEY B. KING, a son of the Mississippi Delta and by everyone's admission but his own the King of the Blues, stands by a two-lane ...
The Kinks: The Once and Future Kinks
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, November 1978
Untangling fourteen years of rock & roll fantasy ...
Daniel Lanois: The Book of Daniel
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, September 1993
Dan Lanois The Musician Eclipses Lanois The Producer ...
Little Feat: Time Loves A Hero (Warner Bros. BS 3015)
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, July 1977
FEATS HAVE FAILED ME NOW ...
Courtney Love: Love's Labor Lost
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, April 1997
How Courtney blew her fight for an Oscar nomination as the junkie wife of a porn king in The People vs. Larry Flynt ...
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, June 1986
HERE WE ARE on a nice drive down Cahuenga Boulevard — the journalist's rental wreck following Madonna's forty-plus-grand midnight-blue Mercedes sports coupe — and the ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley: A Puff Away from Huge
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, July 1978
Bob Marley and the Wailers Gain Fans Near and Far with Kaya ...
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, February 1977
JONI DRONES, MELANIE FINDS NEW KEY ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Long After Dark
Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, January 1983
TOM PETTY and the Heartbreakers play a finely crafted band of meat-and-potatoes rock. ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: This Is How It Feels
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, May 1995
"That's all we need is another dog onstage." Tom Petty's calm drawl has just gone as thick as black smoke from a smudge pot. Petty ...
Richard Hell & The Void-Oids: Blank Generation (Sire SR 6037)
Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, October 1977
RICHARD HELL HAS been touted as an underground genius for nearly three years, and this debut album boldly tries to document him as such. The ...
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
WHEN LINDA Ronstadt dropped her hands down the mike-stand and went to make some small talk with the audience at a New York concert early ...
Patti Smith: The Patti Smith Group: The Palladium, New York NY
Live Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, July 1978
Patti comes home a hero ...
Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia (Arista)
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, December 1976
CHATTY PATTY: PISSIN' IN WAX ...
G.E. Smith: An Ace Axeman Steps Out Front
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, August 1981
NEW YORK CITY — "All I've ever wanted to call myself is a player," says unsung guitar legend G.E. Smith as we sit down to ...
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Dir. Jonathan Demme)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, October 1984
Heads play from heart in new film ...
Talking Heads: Dr Pepper Music Festival, Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park NY
Live Review by Fred Schruers, Musician, November 1980
THE TALKING Heads' avowed inspiration, when they began as a trio in 1976, was boredom with the contemporary art scene. The homemade music they began ...
U2: Small Victories in a Rock and Roll Struggle of Sound and Emotion
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, May 1983
STUMPY, PRINCELY Bono Vox drives along Dublin Bay, left arm grasping the wheel of his humble sedan while he uses the right – temporarily game ...
Tom Waits: Foreign Affairs (Asylum 7E-1117)
Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, November 1977
THE ADMIRING audience that Tom Waits built up with his early work now worries about him in a way that does his derelict's persona proud: ...
Deniece Williams is Here to Stay
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, February 1978
Songbird Album Showcases Ex-Wonderlove Singer ...
Warren Zevon: Crystal Zevon's Story: Warren from A to Z
Interview by Fred Schruers, Los Angeles Times, May 2007
Through interviews and diaries, the musician's ex-wife chronicles the hedonistic life of one of the genre's bad boys. ...
List of genre pieces
Richard Branson: Rock & Roll at 30,000 Feet
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, October 1984
From Tubular Bells to Boy George, Richard Branson has made millions from music. Now he's trying to run his own airline. Is he smart enough ...
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