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Major Dudes by Barney Hoskyns6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The Joni Mitchell one is just an "anthology". The Radiohead one is a "compendium" ("an anthology to savour"). The Steely Dan one is a "companion" (the blurb describes it as "an indispensable compendium"). Strangely, all of the collections have a different subtitle: I assume that he simply collates articles written by writers who are represented on the website, not that this doesn't entail some administrative and creative effort. ![]() As at the date of this review, there are over 45,000 articles, and Hoskyns expects to have 50,000 in the near future.īarney Hoskyns (whom I admire and respect as a music critic) has edited a number of collections of music criticism about groups or individual artists. About 750 writers have their life's work represented on the website. ![]() Barney Hoskyns is a music writer who in 2000 created "Rock's Back Pages" (1), an online database of music criticism dating from the 1950's to the present. ![]()
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