Pages tagged “joe carducci”

• • Decrease
  • Reset
  • Increase
  resize
• print
• send

Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 16-18 (June - November 2005)

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)Next week, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we were in our old...  read more

Catching Up With... Joe Carducci

Writer Joe Carducci dropped a bomb on the world of music non-fiction in 1991 with his sprawling, personal, dense-but-immensely-readable Rock and the Pop Narcotic. Not since Richard Meltzer’s The Aesthetics of Rock, Robert Christgau’s '70s record guide, or the various musings of Lester Bangs...  read more