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Jim DeRogatis

James Peter DeRogatis (born September 2, 1964) is an American music critic and co-host of Sound Opinions. DeRogatis has written articles for magazines such as Rolling Stone, Spin, Guitar World and Modern Drummer, and for 15 years was the pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Jim DeRogatis

James Peter DeRogatis
(1964-09-02) September 2, 1964
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.

Music critic

1980s–present

Carmél Carrillo
(m. 2003)

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He joined Columbia College Chicago's English Department as a lecturer in 2010[2] and is currently an associate professor of instruction teaching Music & Media in Chicago, Reviewing the Arts, Cultural Criticism and the Arts, and Journalism as Literature.[3]

Personal life[edit]

DeRogatis was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, in a Catholic family.[20][21] When he was five, his father, an underwriter for Prudential Insurance Company, died of a heart attack in 1969.[20] After rejecting religion during his freshman year of high school, DeRogatis became an atheist.[22] In 2003, DeRogatis married Carmél Carrillo.[23] He has a daughter, Melody (born circa 1997), from a previous marriage.[24]

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, Broadway Books, 2000

Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s, Da Capo Press, 2003

Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock, , 2003

Hal Leonard Publishing Co

Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics, Da Capo Press, 2004

Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous , Broadway Books, 2006

The Flaming Lips

The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side, Voyageur Press, 2009

DeRogatis, Jim (2019). . New York: Abrams. ISBN 978-1-4197-4007-7.

Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly

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