Everything about Michael Azerrad totally explained
Michael Azerrad is an
American author,
journalist and
musician. He grew up in the
New York City area and received his
BA degree from
Columbia College in
1983. During his college years, he was both a roommate and a bandmate of keyboard virtuoso
Marc Capelle (who later went on to become a member of
American Music Club.)
After college, Azerrad played
drums in various small bands while pursuing a career in music journalism. Besides writing features for Spin, Musician and Details, and a stint at MTV News from 1987 through 1992, Azerrad wrote several hundred pieces for
Rolling Stone magazine from 1987 through 1993, and was eventually named contributing editor. In
1993 Doubleday Books published Azerrad's definitive, best-selling biography of the band
Nirvana, entitled, which appeared six months before bandleader
Kurt Cobain died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Azerrad spent many months interviewing the band members and their friends, relatives and associates, and Cobain and the other members of the band shared a wide variety of archival materials with him, many of which are reproduced in the book.
His subsequent book,
Our Band Could Be Your Life was a collection of profiles of thirteen prominent
indie rock bands of the
1980s and early
1990s, including
Sonic Youth,
Black Flag and
The Replacements. In 2000 Q magazine named
Come as You Are one of the 50 greatest rock books ever written, and in 2006 the Guardian rated
Our Band Could Be Your Life as one of the 50 best music books ever written.
Since 2002 Azerrad has himself been a member of indie band the King of France and in 2005 became an original member of Reprise Records recording artists the LeeVees.
In 2006, Azerrad co-produced a documentary about Kurt Cobain, "Kurt Cobain About a Son".
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