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| Born | (1960-11-26)November 26, 1960 (age 65) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Music journalist |
| Years active | Mid-1980s–present |
Chuck Eddy (born November 26, 1960) is an Americanmusic journalist.
Chuck Eddy was born inDetroit,Michigan. After starting his journalism career withThe Village Voice andCreem, where he published one of the first national interviews with theBeastie Boys[1] in the mid-1980s, Eddy then wrote forRolling Stone,Spin,Entertainment Weekly and other national and local publications. He has authored four books:Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe,The Accidental Evolution of Rock and Roll,Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, andTerminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music.
In 1999 he was hired as the music editor atThe Village Voice, where he served for seven years. After being terminated on grounds of "taste" upon Village Voice Media's merger withNew Times in 2006,[2][3] he briefly wrote a thrice-weekly heavy metal blog forMTV'sURGE and a monthly page of capsule CD reviews inHarp called "The Last Roundup". From 2006 to 2007, he worked as a senior editor forBillboard magazine. Eddy currently freelances fromAustin, Texas.
He has published book chapters in several anthologies, includingThe Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (Random House, 1992);Spin Alternative Record Guide (Vintage, 1995);Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music And Myth (NYU Press, 1999);Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth (Feral House, 2001);Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine (Collins, 2007); and1000 Songs To Change Your Life (Time Out, 2008.)
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