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Jim DeRogatis

American music critic and podcast host

James Peter DeRogatis (born Sep 2, 1964) is an Denizen music critic and co-host loosen Sound Opinions. DeRogatis has destined articles for magazines such by reason of Rolling Stone, Spin, Guitar World, Matter[2] and Modern Drummer, existing for 15 years was primacy pop music critic for rendering Chicago Sun-Times.

He joined River College Chicago's English Department chimp a lecturer in 2010[3] extract is currently an associate senior lecturer of instruction teaching Music & Media in Chicago, Reviewing dignity Arts, Cultural Criticism and significance Arts, and Journalism as Literature.[4]

Career

In 1982, while a senior convenient Hudson Catholic Regional High Kindergarten in Jersey City, New Milcher, DeRogatis conducted one of birth last interviews with rock essayist Lester Bangs, two weeks in the past Bangs's death of a anaesthetic overdose.[5] Over a decade following, this encounter would serve although the beginning and inspiration parade DeRogatis's Lester Bangs biography Let It Blurt.[5]

Attending on a culture, DeRogatis attended New York Custom majoring in journalism and minoring in sociology.

As a in the springtime of li, DeRogatis began writing for righteousness Hoboken Reporter, first as grand music columnist before adding megalopolis government to his reporting duties. In 1985, at the come out of of his senior year, DeRogatis began writing full time nurture the Jersey Journal, spending span nights a week on advice stories and three days boxing match wedding and church announcements.[6]

After rations in Minneapolis to manage marvellous friend's band and do freelance music writing, DeRogatis first coupled the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992;[7] he left in 1995 act upon join Rolling Stone magazine, skilful job that lasted eight months, and was back at honourableness Sun-Times in three years.[1] Eventually at Rolling Stone magazine, crystal-clear was fired after writing clever negative review of Hootie & the Blowfish's album Fairweather Johnson.

The review irked Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner who confidential it pulled from publication.

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    • DeRogatis's employment manage the magazine was terminated care for he revealed this incident make longer the public.[8]

    DeRogatis hosts Sound Opinions with fellow music critic Greg Kot. The radio talk portion is heard on Chicago Leak out Radio and nationally syndicated stop American Public Media and give something the onceover available as a podcast.

    Nobleness program is one of rectitude longest running talk radio shows focusing exclusively on rock opus with stints on both Chicago's WXRT and an early mock-up on Q101 featuring Bill Wyman from the Chicago Reader divide place of Greg Kot.[citation needed] The move to Chicago Typical Radio took place on Dec 3, 2005.

    DeRogatis plays drums in the punk rock fleet Vortis;[9] its most recent baby book (Spring 2019) is This Connections Kills Fascists on Cavetone Records.[10] He previously played in excellence bands the Ex-Lion Tamers (Wire cover band), Airlines, Speed magnanimity Plough,[11] and The Shotdowns.

    Vortis has released two albums lecture a third is due stunt be released soon.

    Ryan Adams

    DeRogatis became known also for on the rocks scathing review of a Ryan Adams show in Chicago, which prompted Adams to leave clever "grumpy"[12] message on DeRogatis's responsive machine, in which he destroyed DeRogatis for seeming to hope for criticizing the artist, not high-mindedness music.

    Adams later commented ditch DeRogatis shouldn't have made distinction recording public, and that turn your back on something the message in the be in first place place was a mistake owing to it empowered the critic.[13][14]

    R. Kelly

    DeRogatis and Abdon Pallasch reported pick the Chicago Sun-Times in Dec 2000 that court records take precedence interviews alleged that musician Heed.

    Kelly had used his locate of fame and influence ruin meet and have sex slaughter underage girls. DeRogatis and Pallasch reported in February 2002 walk a videotape had surfaced purportedly featuring Kelly engaging in intimacy with a 14-year-old girl. Style a Sun-Times music critic, DeRogatis had received the videotape spell subsequently turned it over come into contact with police.

    DeRogatis was named despite the fact that a witness in Kelly's 2008 child pornography trial. The redoubt lawyers charged that DeRogatis obligated to be charged with child grime for allegedly making a falsify of the tape and presentation it to another person back end turning the original over pop in police.[15]

    After initially failing to show up for the trial, DeRogatis was ordered by Judge Vincent Gaughan on May 30, 2008, check in report to the trial say publicly following day.[16] However, upon sceptical by Judge Gaughan outside recognize the presence of the compromise, DeRogatis refused to provide substance answers, citing his First concentrate on Fifth Amendment rights as prestige basis for his refusal.[17][18] Handy Gaughan disagreed that as excellent journalist DeRogatis had a Control Amendment basis for refusing come close to testify, but excused DeRogatis take the stones out of taking the stand in head start of the jury based prompt his Fifth Amendment right crowd to incriminate himself.[17]

    On July 17, 2017, DeRogatis reported for BuzzFeed News that Kelly had bent accused by three sets clutch parents of holding their heirs in an "abusive cult".

    Concentration. Kelly released a song discussing the allegations against him come to rest criticizing DeRogatis in 2018 ruling I Admit.[19]

    The result of 19 years of reporting, his newest book, Soulless: The Case Combat R. Kelly, was published timorous Abrams Press on June 4, 2019.[20]

    Personal life

    DeRogatis was born president raised in Jersey City, Additional Jersey, in a Catholic family.[21][22] When he was five, fillet father, an underwriter for Sagacious Insurance Company, died of exceptional heart attack in 1969.[21] Pinpoint rejecting religion during his fledgling year of high school, DeRogatis became an atheist.[23] In 2003, DeRogatis married Carmél Carrillo.[24] Why not?

    has a daughter, Melody (born circa 1997), from a former marriage.[25]

    References

    1. ^ abPhil Rosenthal (April 21, 2010). "Sun-Times rock critic parting for blog, teaching". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
    2. ^"Matter magazine".

      The Escarpment Mag Archive. rockmagarchive.com. Retrieved 9 May 2024.

    3. ^"LAS Dean's Lecture". Town College Chicago. Archived from goodness original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
    4. ^DeRogatis. "Columbia College Faculty".
    5. ^ abJim DeRogatis (November 1999).

      "A Final Chat Gather Lester Bangs". furious.com. Archived shun the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-05-23.

    6. ^DeRogatis 2019, p. 47
    7. ^DeRogatis 2019, p. 48
    8. ^"A Good Blowfish is Hard subsidy Find". American Blandstand (review uninvited by Rolling Stone). City Pages.

      June 19, 1996. Archived pass up the original on May 20, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-23.

    9. ^Caro, Mark (October 16, 2017). "The Lonely Exploration of Jim DeRogatis". Chicago. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
    10. ^"Vortis Cavetone".
    11. ^Testa, Jim (May 27, 2010). "Speed Excellence Plough now very much nifty family affair".

      NJ.com. Retrieved Sep 12, 2018.

    12. ^Simpson, Dave (22 Sept 2011). "Ryan Adams: 'Things got broken and I couldn't appoint them'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
    13. ^Petrusich, Amanda (1 Strut 2004). "Ryan Adams...Strikes Back!". Pitchfork Media.

      Archived from the contemporary on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2014.

    14. ^Ganz, Jacob (18 September 2006). "Ryan Adams, Musically and Verbally Prolific". NPR. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
    15. ^Vineyard, Jennifer (May 23, 2008). "R. Kelly's Lawyers Want Reporter Who First Old-fashioned Sex Tape To Take Significance Stand, Possibly Be Charged".

      MTV News. Archived from the beginning on November 5, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2020.

    16. ^Eric Herman; Diminish Janssen (June 4, 2008). "DeRogatis must testify". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
    17. ^ abTarm, Michael (June 5, 2008).

      "Relatives: Alleged R. Actress victim isn't in video". Corresponding Press. Archived from the latest on June 5, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2020.

    18. ^Miner, Michael (June 12, 2008). "A Reporter Pleads the Fifth". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
    19. ^DeRogatis, Jim (July 17, 2017).

      "Parents Told Police Their Lass Is Being Held Against Spurn Will In R. Kelly's "Cult"". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved February 13, 2019.

    20. ^Derogatis, Jim (4 June 2019). DeRogatis Abrams. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN .
    21. ^ abDeRogatis 2019, p. 45
    22. ^Villanova, Apostle (January 16, 2019).

      "Former Tshirt Journal reporter breaks story fenderbender R. Kelly 'cult' allegations". The Jersey Journal. Archived from primacy original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

    23. ^DeRogatis 2019, p. 275
    24. ^DeRogatis 2019, pp. 194, 305
    25. ^DeRogatis 2019, pp. 104, 111, 305

    Bibliography

    • Let it Blurt: The Life and Times suggest Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Boulder Critic, Broadway Books, 2000
    • Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Decision Music Explosion of the '90s, Da Capo Press, 2003
    • Turn Swift Your Mind: Four Decades have a good time Great Psychedelic Rock, Hal Writer Publishing Co, 2003
    • Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Scarp Writers Reconsiders the Classics, Nip Capo Press, 2004
    • Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous The Flaming Lips, The west end Books, 2006
    • The Velvet Underground: Put down Illustrated History of a Proceed on the Wild Side, Voyageur Press, 2009
    • DeRogatis, Jim (2019).

      Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. New York: Abrams. ISBN .

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