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Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis is the pop music critic at The Chicago Sun-Times and the author of several books about rock 'n' roll: Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Broadway Books, 2000); Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s (Da Capo, 2003); Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Hal Leonard, 2003), and Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips, coming from Broadway Books in March 2006.
Together with his wife, Carmél Carrillo, he edited the anthology Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (Barricade Books, 2004), and with Greg Kot of The Chicago Tribune, he has co-hosted Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, for the past seven years. After starting his career as a beat and investigative reporter on the East Coast, he also worked as the assistant editor at Request and as the deputy music editor at Rolling Stone magazines; his work also has appeared in Spin, GQ, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, Penthouse, Harp, and the Salon and Playboy.com Web sites. He lives on the North Side, entirely too close to Wrigley Field, and he jokes that he is not a musician, but he is a drummer.
Visit Jim's Webpage: http://www.jimdero.com
Read Jim's latest articles: http://www.suntimes.com/index/derogatis.html
Email Jim:Â jimdero@jimdero.com
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