Steve Matteo-Wrote liner notes for Kinks UnKovered

Steve Matteo has written about music, books, film, the arts, and sports for over 25 years. He has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, the Orlando Sentinel, the St. Petersburg Times, New York magazine, Time Out New York, Crawdaddy!, Harp, Tracks, Blender, Rolling Stone, Spin, Details, Interview, Elle, Salon, North Atlantic Review, Gotham, Hamptons, Dan’s Papers, Pulse, Utne Reader, CMJ, Writers’ Journal, barnesandnoble.com, All Music Guide, Long Island Press, Sing Out!, Goldmine, Relix, Jazziz, City Pages, Listener, Good Times, and Jazz Improv. He is also Music Editor of Pulse magazine. He has been the Music Editor of Update and Nightlife magazines. He has worked in radio as the writer of the “Something New” program for WLIR in New York and as the Program Director of WNYT, also in New York; he is currently the Music and Editorial Director of the nationally broadcast radio program FM Odyssey. Also, he worked in various capacities for Left Field Services, Pete Townshend’s U.S.-based company. He is the author of “Dylan,” a biography of Bob Dylan published in 1998 by MetroBooks, an imprint of Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, which is owned by Barnes and Noble. In 2003 his writings on Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery appeared in the book “Jazziz Chronicles: The Guitarists,” published by Cherry Lane. His second book, “Let It Be,” on the making of the Beatles’ album and film “Let It Be,” (33 1/3 series) was published in November of 2004 by Continuum (New York, London) and is in its third printing. In 2005 “Let It Be” was published in Italian and will soon be published in Greek.

Back to Artists