Eric Harvey: Writing the Record (Pitchfork)
Author Devon Powers on how Village Voice writers Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau helped create rock journalism, and the evolving role of music critics.
Maria Bustillos: How Lester Bangs Taught Me to Read (The New Yorker)
Lester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three. He also had the most advanced and exquisite taste…