Email Author Jim DeRogatis

1997 Stories by Jim DeRogatis

• Dub and Dumber

  published September 18, 1997

  In their zeal to make sense of new and ever-evolving genres, rock critics are always quick to hold high a familiar sound from the past as the... More >>

• Loaded Questions

  published April 10, 1997

  When talking to Metallica's vocalist and founding guitarist James Hetfield, the first thing that strikes you is that he seems a lot nicer than the... More >>

• A Dirty Business

  published February 20, 1997

  With the rarest of exceptions, the music industry is a festering slime pit populated by rabid weasels, an utterly soulless corporate machine... More >>