Jason Gross
Jason Gross is a freelance writer in New York City who's contributed to All Music Guide, Blender, Creative Loafing, Harp, Film Comment, MOJO, No Depression, Spin, Time Out, Tracks, Village Voice and the Wire among others. He is the editor/founder of one of the first online music magazines, Perfect Sound Forever (perfectsoundforever.com, since 1993).
His work has also been published in a number of books including Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay, Musichound World: The Essential Album Guide, Rock - 100 Essential CD's and Rock: The Rough Guide and The Beat Generation. In April 2000, Ellipsis Arts released OHM- the Early Gurus of Electronic Music, a 3-CD compilation he co-produced of historic material in that field, praised by the New York Times, National Public Radio and many other places. Reissues that he has produced include albums collecting the work of Oh OK (Collectors' Choice), DNA (No More), Kleenex/Liliput and Essential Logic (both on Kill Rock Stars)- he is currently working on several similar projects.
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List of articles in the library
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, September 1997
IT'S HARD NOT TO praise someone who's a pioneer and a star in techno/electronica — that's just Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) for you. ...
Richard Hell, Robert Quine: Robert Quine
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, November 1997
WHO IS ROBERT Quine? According to him, he 'remains one of the most compelling, appalling and universally hated figures in music history.' ...
James "Blood" Ulmer: James Blood Ulmer
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 1998
THOUGH THERE'S BEEN hundreds and thousands of hotshots who vowed to take the guitar to the next level after Jimi Hendrix broke the doors open, ...
LiLiPUT: Kleenex/Liliput — interview with Marlene Marder
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998
"Hotch-potch, Hugger-mugger, Bow-wow, Hara-kiri, Hoo-poo, Huzza, Hicc-up, Hum-drum, Hexa-pod, Hell-cat, Helter-skelter, Hop-scotch" ...
Scruffs: The Scruffs: Wanna Meet The Scruffs?
Review by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998
THE MOST part of the whole wave of CD reissues is seeing these obscure gems that you're positive no one else could possibly care about ...
Jon Langford, The Mekons, The Waco Brothers: An Interview with Jon Langford
Interview by Jason Gross, Bangsheet, May 1999
IN THE MIDDLE of yet another tour for the alt-alt-country act the Waco Brothers and on hiatus from his original band the Mekons, Jon "Boy" ...
The Beastie Boys: Illin' Communication: The Beastie Boys and the Net
Interview by Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, August 1999
SEEMS LIKE A long strange trip for a band that started as a hardcore unit in 1980 to become a bestselling rap trio for a ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, April 2000
2003 NOTE: WHILE IT'S commonplace now for artists to put their material up for fans to preview, it wasn't three years ago, which should show ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2000
AS ONE OF the first people who decided that rock and roll was something that could and should be something that could be seriously written ...
Bryan MacLean: Candy's Waltz (Sundazed)
Review by Jason Gross, Worldly Remains, October 2000
WHAT DO YOU say about a great lost voice in a band that was worshipped by Jim Morrison and Robert Plant? Though he was second ...
Column by Jason Gross, The Wire, December 2000
Jason Gross finds MP3 newsgroups are the way to sidestep Napster. ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2001
WHILE TROLLING AROUND an MP3 newsgroup one day, I saw the name 'Delta Rhythm Boys.' I had no idea who they were but the name ...
Report by Jason Gross, The Wire, March 2001
A monthly survey of sounds from around the planet ...
Blind Boys of Alabama: The Backpages Interview: Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama
Interview by Jason Gross, Rock's Backpages, 23 June 2001
A sixty-plus-year-old gospel group that covers Tom Waits and the Rolling Stones songs for Peter Gabriel’s label? Is it possible? When most groups struggle to ...
Review by Jason Gross, Worldly Remains, May 2002
THIS 20-YEAR-OLD NYC headbanger gets the nod from David Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters), gets his bloody nose record cover (coke blow? fist fight?) banned and gets ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 2002
Depending on how you see music journalism, Simon Frith is either a sinner or a saint. After the late '60's, rock criticism began to show ...
Rolling Stone's Nathan Brackett Snubs Breakfast Reviews, Predicts Klezmer Kraze
Interview by Jason Gross, rockcritics.com, June 2002
Perfect Sound Forever founder/editor Jason Gross interviews Rolling Stone's reviews editor. ...
Sons of the Pioneers: The Sons of the Pioneers: The Ultimate Collection (Hip-O/MCA Nashville)
Review by Jason Gross, Rock's Backpages, June 2002
IN THE WAKE of the success of the Coen Brothers'/T-Bone Burnette's O Brother, Where Art Thou, you'd surely hope that some people would be curious ...
The Flamin' Groovies, Roy Loney: Roy Loney
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005
Funny story... Though I had spoken to Flamin' Groovies founder in 1998, I held the article all this time hoping to speak to Cyril A. ...
Gang of Four: Irving Plaza, New York NY
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, 17 May 2005
IN 1977, A bunch of British university students formed a band, poignantly deciding to take the name of a group of disgraced communist leaders accused ...
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, June 2005
AS ANOTHER SXSW drew to a close on an abnormally cool Texas afternoon, a roaring half-hour thunderstorm presaged one of the most unexpected comebacks in ...
Patti Smith: Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, 30 October 2005
After a summer tryout at London's Meltdown Festival, punk icon Patti Smith returned to her NYC roots to perform again in sequence her 30-year-old debut ...
Drive-By Truckers: Confessions of a Trucker
Interview by Jason Gross, Creative Loafing, 16 November 2005
TRYING TO FIT in as the newbie in an established band is a weird, awkward, disorienting task – just ask Ron Wood what it was ...
The High Dials: War of the Wakening Phantoms
Review by Jason Gross, Harp, December 2005
IN THE quirky, removed Northern climes of late-'70s Montreal, Trevor Anderson grew up on a diet of folk and country music. More than a dozen ...
Profile by Jason Gross, Creative Loafing, 3 August 2006
ARE THERE ANY active old-school divas that we can still look up to? Cher? Retired. Tina Turner? Retired. Barbara Streisand? Her too. Joni Mitchell? Yep. ...
The Roots: They're A (Funky) American Band
Profile by Jason Gross, Creative Loafing, 5 October 2006
"WHAT KIND OF music do they play?" a Def Jam receptionist innocently asked, when queried about the Roots. Although self-classified as a rap group, the ...
The dB's, Mitch Easter, Sneakers: The dB's, Mitch Easter and Sneakers: Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, 13 January 2007
THOUGH CAROLINA-to-Hoboken legends the dB's already had their first reunion gigs at Maxwell's in Hoboken last fall, this Gotham show was their big coming-out party, ...
Joanna Newsom: Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, March 2008
IF ANYTHING, folkie singer/harpist Joanna Newsom's recent live shows with strings answer the question of whether her new music (featuring 10-15 minute songs) is ambitious ...
Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth: Byron Coley: An Interview
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, June 2010
SITTING ON A back porch in bucolic Western Massachusetts on a gorgeous summer's day, my friend’s adorable little daughter coyly asked, "Wanna see a picture ...
The Dean of Rock Critics Schools Us On Himself: Robert Christgau's Going Into the City (Dey St.)
Book Review by Jason Gross, Rock's Backpages, June 2015
LET'S SAY THAT you're interested in New York City's mid-to-late 20th century history, plus journalism, plus music journalism, plus critical theory. You're not just in a pretty ...
Angry Samoans: An Interview with Gregg Turner
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2016
PSF: WHAT WAS the local scene like before the group started? ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, December 2016
Sue Gogan Interview Part 1 (we hope) ...
The Best Music Journalism Of 2016
Essay by Jason Gross, Rock's Backpages, December 2016
WE WANTED 2016 to end and we're getting our wish, but the fallout from this awful year will be haunting us for a while – ...
A Top 40 Countdown & A Plea For a Mitzvah in the Streaming Age: The Best Music Journalism of 2018
Guide by Jason Gross, Rock's Backpages, December 2018
2018 WAS A really good year, just not politically, socially, psychologically and spiritually... well, there was plenty of good music, as Fader, Consequence of Sound ...
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