Born
in
Jersey City,
New
Jersey,
the year the Beatles arrived in
America,
Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock ’n’ roll shortly
thereafter. He is the pop music critic at the
Chicago Sun-Times, and has written
several books about music: Staring
at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma’s Fabulous Flaming Lips (Broadway
Books)
; Let It Blurt: The
Life and Times of Lester
Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic (Broadway Books);
Milk It! Collected
Musings on the
Alternative Music Explosion of the ’90s (Da Capo), and Turn On Your Mind: Four
Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Hal
Leonard). W
ith his wife, Carmél
Carrillo, he edited Kill Your
Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (Barricade
Books), and he recently edited and wrote the central essay for
The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History
of a Walk on the Wild Side
(Voyageur Press).In
partnership
with Greg Kot of the
Chicago Tribune,
DeRogatis co-hosts
Sound
Opinions,
“the world’s only rock ’n’ roll talk
show,” which originates at Chicago Public Radio and is syndicated
nationally to
some 80 public radio stations via American Public Media. He teaches
"Reviewing the Arts" at Columbia College.
Email: jimdero@jimdero.com
Mailing Address:
Jim DeRogatis
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
