Robert Dean Lurie
Robert Dean Lurie is a writer and musician based in Tempe, Arizona. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and is the author of Begin the Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years, We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie, and No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church. His essays on arts and culture have appeared in Dangerous Minds, National Review, Blurt Magazine, The American Conservative, and Front Porch Republic.
13 articles
List of articles in the library
David Bowie: Through the (Stained) Looking Glass: David Bowie & the Berlin Trilogy
Retrospective by Robert Dean Lurie, Blurt, 11 July 2018
One year ago, David Bowie passed away, much to the surprise and sorrow of the music world. To mark the anniversary of his death, we ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Dean Lurie, Blurt, August 2014
I. The Crooner: Tempe, Arizona – April 10, 2014 ...
Camper Van Beethoven: Ghost Of The Lost Coast: Camper Van Beethoven
Profile and Interview by Robert Dean Lurie, Blurt, January 2013
I'VE NEVER REALLY agreed with the famous quip (attributed to Martin Mull) that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture". Nick Tosches, Lester Bangs, ...
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, Front Porch Republic, 16 May 2014
LEONARD COHEN occupies an unusual position in popular music history. He is routinely neglected by those "Best of the 60's" nostalgia-fests you see on VH1, ...
Bob Dylan: Unlike a Rolling Stone
Comment by Robert Dean Lurie, The American Conservative, 20 June 2014
Why Bob Dylan, troubadour of the revolution, turned homeward. ...
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 31 December 2015
WRITING ABOUT Bob Dylan's politics would seem to be a thankless task. The famously curmudgeonly songwriter claims to know and care little about the subject, ...
Robert Plant & the Band of Joy: Dodge Theatre, Phoenix
Live Review by Robert Dean Lurie, Blurt, 20 July 2010
In concert in Phoenix and previewing new material while recasting selected gems from the past, the erstwhile Led Zep frontman kills it. ...
Lou Reed: The Wild Side, Magic, and Loss
Obituary by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 29 October 2013
His subjects were difficult and his voice abrasive, but he never tried to be anyone other than himself. ...
Seven Simons: The Time Is Now, The Time Is Yesterday
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Dean Lurie, Blurt, 28 October 2016
Or: the unlikely return of one of the great, lost Athens, Georgia, bands. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run (Simon & Schuster)
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 31 December 2016
SPRINGSTEEN. THE BOSS. Bruuuuuce. A lot of hyperbolic ink has been spilled over this man through the years, so I'm going to walk it back ...
Pete Townshend, The Who: Pete Townshend: Who I Am – A Memoir (Harper)
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 20 December 2012
THE INNER FLAP of the dust jacket says it all: "Pete Townshend has some explaining to do." ...
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Bob Stanley: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! – The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé (W.W. Norton)
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, The American Conservative, 13 February 2015
I WISH I COULD say that my love of pop music began when my middle school music teacher showed me a documentary called The Compleat ...
Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 12 November 2018
"A BOOK FOR the #MeToo and Times Up Movements," proclaims the PR one-sheet for Dorothy Carvello's new memoir. ...
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