Read Jeff's work in...

Articles by Jeff Slate in The New Yorker      Articles by Jeff Slate in Esquire      Articles by Jeff Slate in the Wall Street Journal  

 

Articles by Jeff Slate in Rolling Stone   Articles by Jeff Slate in The Daily Beast    

 

Articles by Jeff Slate in Quartz      Articles by Jeff Slate in Rock Cellar Magazine 

 

Jeff's Personal Top 10 

1) WALL STREET JOURNAL: Bob Dylan on Music’s Golden Era vs. Streaming (read the full interview at www.bobdylan.com) 

2) THE NEW YORKER: Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue”

3) ESQUIRE: Tom Petty Was Always One of Us

4) WALL STREET JOURNAL: 20 Odd Questions With Ringo Starr

5) CONSEQUENCE: Consequence: The Clash’s Sandinista! Turns 40

6) THE DAILY BEAST: Remembering David Crosby: Freak, Asshole, and Forever Icon

7) CREEM: Peter Frampton | End Of The Road

8) WALL STREET JOURNAL: Janelle Monae Wants You to Host a Game Night

9) ESQUIRE: The Music in Ken Burns' The Vietnam War Is Remarkable. Here's How It Was Chosen.

10) ESQUIRE: When Bob Dylan Saw God

Additional Recommended Reading

WALL STREET JOURNAL: How Deepak Chopra Is Getting Through Quarantine

NBC News THINK: Little Richard dead at 87: The rock and roll king who scared — and changed — America

THE DAILY BEAST: Bob Geldof: America Is ‘Screwed’

THE DAILY BEAST: John Cleese and Eric Idle on the Trump and Brexit ‘Sh*tshow’

NBC News THINK: Netflix and Martin Scorsese's 'Rolling Thunder Revue' is peak Bob Dylan

THE DAILY BEAST: A Beatles Masterpiece Just Got Even Better

QUARTZ: Led Zeppelin’s discography is immortal, thanks to Jimmy Page

QUARTZ: Prince made weird sexy, and kept sexy weird

ESQUIRE: The Best Rock Album You've Never Heard

QUARTZ: David Bowie’s bandmates explain just how he got them to sound like that

ESQUIRE: Monty Python Finally Says Goodbye

NBC News THINK: Passing Michael Jackson, the Eagles now have the best-selling album of all time. And they're still terrible.

ESQUIRE: Wu-Tang Clan Opens Up About Reuniting and the New Album

ESQUIRE: When David Bowie Invented The Future

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Will the Smartphone Ever Truly Replace Your Beloved Wallet?

ESQUIRE: Willie Nelson Wants You to Buy His Music–And His Weed

ESQUIRE: The Making of David Bowie's Lost Soul Album

ROCK CELLAR MAGAZINE: The Beastie Boys Origin Story: Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz on Their Roller-Coaster Career

ROLLING STONE: 10 Things We Learned From Elvis Costello’s Brilliant New Memoir

ESQUIRE: John Cleese Picks the Most Gut-Busting Monty Python Sketches

THE DAILY BEAST: Ringo Starr’s Post-Beatles Bliss

ESQUIRE: David Crosby Does Not Give a Single F*ck

ROCK CELLAR MAGAZINE: Behind the Curtain: On Tour with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

ESQUIRE: Roger Waters Won't Hide His Disdain for Donald Trump

ESQUIRE: Gregg Allman Always Walked Through the Fire

ESQUIRE: 73 Reasons to Love Bob Marley on His 73rd Birthday

QUARTZ: “Pink Floyd is dead. I’m ready to move on.”

THE DAILY BEAST: Goddamn, Dylan’s Sinatra Album Is Great

QUARTZ: Hey haters: rock stars like Miley are supposed to be rebels, and a little crazy
 

More from Jeff...

 

Jeff's TapeOp Interviews and Reviews

 

 

 

Articles by Jeff Slate in Guitar World     Articles by Jeff Slate in Guitarist & Music Radar 

 

 

 

Articles by Jeff Slate in Rock's Backpages 

 

Live!

“The unofficial poet laureate of New York City.”—Uncut. Willie Nile is a New York lifer—a singer-songwriter cut as much from the cloth of Greenwich Village’s folk music community as the Bowery’s punk scene. Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Jim Jarmusch, and Little Steven are among those who have sung his praises.

The Best Of Jeff on Spotify!

Jeff Slate HQ on Facebook

Twitter