Jim DeRogatis

A Replacements Doc With No Replacements Music: Color Me Obsessed

Q&A: Animal Collective's Panda Bear On How He Is Similar To Kanye West

​ "Does that mean I have a massive ego? Is there something wrong with that?" asks Panda Bear, a/k/a Noah Lennox, about his latest conquest as a solo artist. Though Lennox is the soaring, helium-voiced member of the ubiquitous Animal Collective and the man responsible for one of the most prais ... More >>

The Lady Gaga Comic Book Is Not Narrated From The Perspective Of Lester Bangs, Alas

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Big-Shot Chicago Sun-Times Rock Critic Jim DeRogatis Is Bound For Academia

Critic, author, radio show co-host, professional R. Kelly antagonizer, and all-around polarizing pop-music raconteur Jim DeRogatis announced his resignation from the Chicago Sun-Times late yesterday, where's he held down the pop-critic spot for nearly two decades, give or take a brief, unhappy sti ... More >>

How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Tips on how to expand its reach—or blow it up entirely

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 25: Weezer, "Heart Songs"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Rivers Cuomo cooks up his own "American Pie," and music dies all over again.

Listening to John Hughes

​Jim DeRogatis has probably penned the definitive thing so far on John Hughes the music fan, complete with the eye-popping detail that while in Chicago, and "well into his prime years as a filmmaker, he loved nothing more than haunting the racks of vinyl at the old Wax Trax record store on Lin ... More >>

Heavy Rotation: James Wood, Music Critic?

The Pillow Fight of Her Life

On the precipitous rise of the cloying, maddening, occasionally devastating Kimya Dawson

Rack Focus

Three Times a Crybaby

Here's more non-bad publicity for a guy who never sees it that way

Sgt. Pooper

Crudités, Anyone?

Note to Ryan Adams: Like, you know, shut the fuck up

Letters

Letters

Impolite Discourse

The Noise Boys Ride Again