Michael Azerrad
Author of _The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana_ and _Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991_.
Bylines: the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the New York Times, etc.
- Horn toot! For _The Wall Street Journal_, author George Newman chose my book _Our Band Could Be Your Life_ as one of "Five Best: Books on the Creative Spark." In there with Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Patti Smith, and Alice Flaherty.
- It's unfortunate that the Grammys didn't see fit to do a full-on tribute to Grateful Dead singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir. Love 'em or hate 'em, the Dead were one of the most iconic American bands, the locus of an entire culture, and Weir was a key member. Respect should have been paid.
