Approximate site of first Creem office taken 2012 by the Detroit Sound Conservancy
Overview
- Detroit has been a rich site for the emergence of contemporary music journalism.
A Chronology of Detroit Music Journalism
An evolving list of Detroit music journalists (broadly understood) past and present (see also Wiki article on music journalism and list of writers on popular music).
- Loraine Alterman
- Lester Bangs
- Bart Bealmear
- Khalid Bhatti - Detroit Music Magazine
- Marke Bieschke
- Jason Birchmeier
- Ben Blackwell
- Herb Boyd
- Duane Bradley
- Bruce Britt
- Bill Brown
- Christine Brown - Detroit Free Press
- Brett Callwood - Metro Times, Author, "The Stooges: Head On"; "MC5: Sonically Speaking"
- David Carson
- Kelley Carter
- Wendy Case
- Norene Cashen
- Sharon Cassidy
- Doug Coombe - Metro Times, Photographer
- Creem
- Jonathan Cunningham
- Denise Dalphond
- Mark Dancey - Motorbooty Magazine.
- Kahn Davison
- Eve Doster
- Jim Dulzo
- Hobey Echlin - Metro Times
- Ben Edmonds - "What's Going On? Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound"
- Stephen Ford
- Kelly Frazier
- Larry Gabriel
- Jim Gallert - Author, "Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit"
- Collins George
- Melissa Giannini
- Robert Gorell - Oral History of Detroit's Electronic Music Festival (Resident Advisor), Metro Times
- Mike Gormley
- Gary Graff
- Adam Graham - Detroit News
- Bill Gray, Detroit News
- Rita Griffin - Michigan Chronicle
- Dream Hampton
- Chris Handyside - Metro Times, Author, "Fell in Love With a Band: The Story of the White Stripes"
- W. Kim Heron
- Bill Holdship
- Steve Holsey
- Johnny Ray Huston, Teenage Gang Debs (zine), You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (zine), San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Michael Hurtt
- Joe "Ziggy" Johnson - Michigan Chronicle
- Thom Jurek
- David Keeps
- Andy Kellman
- Marc Kempf
- Sarah Klein
- Charles Latimer
- Dave Marsh
- Jim McFarlin
- Jeff Milo
- Motorbooty - Comics Journal Interview with editor/publisher Mark Dancey
- Mike Murphy
- Robert L. Nolan
- Keith Owens - History of Detroit Blues, Pt. 1, Pt. 2
- Diana Potts
- Mike Rubin
- Dave Segal
- Dan Sicko - Author "Techno Rebels: Renegades of Electronic Funk"
- John Sinclair
- Brian Smith - Metro Times
- R. J. Smith
- Scott Sterling
- Mark Stryker - Detroit Free Press
- Charlotte M. Tarsney
- Touch and Go
- Khary Kimani Turner
- Jaan Uhelszki
- Jerry Vile
- Liz (Copeland) Warner
- Tamara Warren
- Walter Wasacz
- Susan Watson
- Lisa Crampton/Wexton
- Susan Whitall
- John "Bileebob" Williams (Famzine)
- Travis Wright
- Paul Young (P.Y.) - Detroit Music Magazine
- Daniel Zarazua
Selected Bibliography
- DeRogatis’s Let It Blurt (bio of Lester Bangs)
- Steve Jone’s Pop Music & The Press
- Mike Kramer’s “"Can't Forget the Motor City": Creem Magazine, Rock Music, Detroit Identity, Mass Consumerism, and the Counterculture.”
- Lindberg et. al’s Rock Criticism From the Beginning
- Devon Powers. Writing the Record. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
