David Browne (journalist)

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David Browne
BornMay 19
Occupation
  • Music journalist
  • biographer
NationalityAmerican
Period1982–present

David Browne is an American journalist and author. He is currently a senior writer at Rolling Stone , [1] where he has been a contributor since 2008. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. [2] He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW. He has written articles for a variety of publications, including The New York Times , Spin , [3] The New Republic and Time , as well as stories for NPR. [4]

Browne is the author of six books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001), [5] a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004), [6] a history of extreme sports; Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008); [7] Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 (Da Capo, 2011); [8] So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Da Capo, 2015); [9] and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup (Da Capo, 2019). [10] The latter title received a starred review in Kirkus and was included in the Summer Reading issue of The New York Times in May 2019. [11] [12]

Browne was born and raised in New Jersey and attended New York University, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism, with a minor in music. He lives in Manhattan.

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