David Browne is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. For many years, he was the music critic at Entertainment Weekly, where he started in 1990 as part of the magazine's launch. In the course of that job, he reviewed nearly 1300 albums and profiled everyone from Leonard Cohen and James Taylor to action film stars and the cast of "Beverly Hills 90210" (first season post-Shannon). In 1995, he was awarded a Music Journalism Award for excellence in criticism for an essay on the cultural significance of John Tesh (and no, he's not kidding).

His articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications (Rolling Stone, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Blender. Spin, Sports Illustrated, Wired) and websites (Time, the New Republic, the Poetry Foundation). In his rare free time, he also blogs for the Huffington Post and reviews new music releases for National Public Radio's website. David received his B.A. in journalism from New York University, after which he was an editor and writer at two now-defunct music magazines of the '80s, Music & Sound Output and High Fidelity. He began writing a column on indie rock for the New York Daily News, which, to his surprise and delight, turned into a full-time job at the newspaper.

David is also the author of three books: "Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley" (2001), which has been published in the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, and Australia, and "Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme" (2004). His third, "Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth," was published in June 2008 by Da Capo. Salon called it "compelling and rollicking," Vanity Fair dubbed it "an expressway to the soul of the influential band," and Publishers Weekly was nice enough to call it "compulsively readable."