Talk about several intriguing coincidences. Thursday’s 11th annual Lester Bangs Memorial Reading at Grossmont College, featuring author Jim DeRogatis, will come just days after the opening of the Old ...

The writing of legendary/infamous rock critic Lester Bangs is the basis for the solo play How to Be a Rock Critic which stars Erik Jensen, who co-wrote it with his partner Jessica Blank (who directs).

Roger Anderson, who wrote Wednesday's story on Lester Bangs at Altamont and Friday's on Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, grew up in El Cajon, was part of early San Diego rock scene, wrote for alternative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is arguably no song in the history of rock better suited for a sports game than the Ramones‘ “Blitzkrieg Bop.” The opening ...

In the late nineteen-sixties, when rock criticism was first coming into its own as a discipline, it was a fairly macho, druggy, godless scene. There were no real precedents for the work, and even ...

An accidental overdose of the painkiller Darvon cut short the career of Lester Bangs on April 30, 1982. Yet, his premature death helped secure the critic's place in rock writing's history and ...

A ny rock critic worth his or her rate per word will tell you Lester Bangs is one of those writers you’re supposed to worship. Bangs rigged an encyclopedic knowledge of popular music to a manic ...

“It’s just a shame you missed out on rock ’n’ roll,” a 1973 Lester Bangs tells an emerging music writer he’s taken under his wing, “It’s over. You got here just in time for the death rattle.” This is ...

Creem publisher Barry Kramer and rock critic Lester Bangs had a love-hate relationship. Credit: John Collier The late, great music critic Lester Bangs made a name for himself as editor-in-chief of ...

Legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and his protégé Cameron Crowe appear in the new trailer for Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, in select theaters on August 7th. Directed by Scott ...

Anyone whose familiarity with seminal rock critic Lester Bangs is limited to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s curmudgeonly portrayal in the film Almost Famous grasps only half the picture: To a generation of ...