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Craig Marks is a longtime music journalist and editor who has held top positions at Spin, Billboard, and Blender magazines. He has started his own pop-music internet site, Popdust, and served as editorial director for a leading podcast company. He is the co-author, with his Slacker radio partner Rob Tannenbaum, of the best-selling oral history, "I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution," which chronicles the founding and first decade of the groundbreaking cable network.
Favorite interview: Courtney Love, despite the threats and that high-speed car chase
Favorite band: Velvet Underground
First concert: With parents: Fifth Dimension; on my own: Boston
Best concert: The Clash, The Palladium, NYC
First album ever purchased: Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour"
3 Things I Can't Live Without: Kid, Girlfriend, Cookbooks
Rob Tannenbaum has worked as a writer and editor for the New York Times, GQ, New York Magazine, Details, Spin, Playboy, and the Washington Post, and was the music editor at Blender for more than seven years. With Craig Marks, he's the co-author of "I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution," which was named one of the best books of 2012 by NPR, The Onion, USA Today, Pitchfork, and others, and was acclaimed by Rolling Stone as "one of the funniest books ever written about music."
Favorite interview: Guns N' Roses at one end of the spectrum, and Brian Eno at the opposite end
Favorite band: tie between Roxy Music and Talking Heads
First concert: Billy Joel at the New Haven Coliseum
Best concert: Talking Heads in Central Park
First album ever purchased: my older brother bought a crappy album he didn't like, so he convinced me to buy it from him at half price
Three things: the First Amendment, Barq's root beer, and a Slacker app.
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