Email Author Jim Derogatis

1998 Stories by Jim Derogatis

• The Crit and Shap Poll

  published December 31, 1998

  The process is nothing if not scientific: At the end of every year, we contact each contributor to our music section and ask him/her to submit a... More >>

• More Top 10 lists, sort of

  published December 24, 1998

  Michael Corcoran Makes Stuff Up As a critic gets older -- and this one is 43 -- certain tasks become more difficult, like trying to show... More >>

• The great Pumpkin

  published May 28, 1998

  Like Don Quixote and his windmill, the leading lights of alternative rock defined themselves by what they were fighting. To varying degrees and... More >>

• Acid reign

  published March 26, 1998

  When it comes to the complex machinery of the modern recording studio, it's hardly a stretch to suggest that Spiritualized auteur Jason Pierce is... More >>

• Write or wrong?

  published March 12, 1998

  In November 1996, New York Times reporter and rock critic Neil Strauss crawled into the hot tub at a Holiday Inn in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with... More >>