Susin Shapiro
Born at a very early age, Susin Shapiro (now Susin Fair) broke into rock and rolldom at Crawdaddy, went on to the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Circus, Sounds, the Daily News in NYC… and in 1993 began a 20-year stint at the New York Times as S.S. Fair... awesomeness reincarnate!
24 articles
List of articles in the library
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys (Reprise MS 2193)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Crawdaddy!, January 1975
RANDY NEWMAN has never been one to woo the predictable or cling to the musical status quo for inspiration. In his sleep-soaked tousled tenor he ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper Hits the Road
Report by Susin Shapiro, Crawdaddy!, February 1975
NEW YORK — It had to happen. The formation of a road show with the music of Lennon and McCartney had to be money in ...
Patti Smith: Somewhere, Over the Rimbaud
Profile and Interview by Susin Shapiro, Crawdaddy!, December 1975
NEW YORK – IT'S 8:30 a.m. on a fog-soup Friday, an indecent hour to be conducting an interview, much less making a record. ...
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros.)
Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 16 February 1976
Kate and Anna Carry Through ...
Phoebe Snow Has No Regrets...Yet
Interview by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 15 March 1976
'Which will prove more important, keeping open the WATS line to her career or being the best possible mother, in a first-person plural world?' ...
Smokey Robinson: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 26 April 1976
On Top With Old Smokey ...
The Ramones: Grins and Groans with the Ramones
Profile and Interview by Susin Shapiro, Sounds, 26 June 1976
Everyone in New York has got the Ramones bug. Some people like the punks, others hate them but they sure don't ignore them. Nor will ...
Joan Armatrading: What Are We To Do with Joan Armatrading?
Profile by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 20 September 1976
INTO THE non-genre of thinking women's music steps Joan Armatrading, more British than black, more good folks than badass lady of the Midlands. Joan does ...
Robert Palmer: Some People Can Do What They Like (Island)
Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 13 December 1976
LETTER TO PALMER ...
Interview by Susin Shapiro, Sounds, 18 December 1976
'Sure, but I'm not ready yet. I'd be a perfect President. I'd not only win, but I'd be good at the job.' Sez Frank Zappa ...
Review and Interview by Susin Shapiro, Gig, February 1977
A WRITER FRIEND of mine is fond of saying: "If you fear something enough don't run scared, confront it directly." The idea being that no ...
Report and Interview by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 14 February 1977
J.J. CALE IS not smiling. He hasn't smiled for 53 minutes of his set at My Father's Place. The set — highlights from all four ...
Bob Seger: Rock 'n' Roll's Mr Nice Guy
Interview by Susin Shapiro, Sounds, 14 May 1977
He's modest, he's humorous, he cares for his fans and he says he's very dull... yes, he's BOB SEGER ...
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: This Time It's for Real (Epic)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Circus, 8 September 1977
CERTAIN TRADITIONS should not be allowed to tarnish, and the tradition of bar bands is one of the populist heirlooms that should go on glowing ...
Dwight Twilley: Twilley Don't Grind
Profile by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 17 October 1977
AWKWARDNESS IS the new vogue. No more smoothies and impeccables to make us feel 10-thumbed; clumsiness is the cornerstone of humanity, or so say the ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Judy Mowatt: Judy Mowatt: The Grateful Dread
Profile and Interview by Susin Shapiro, Viva, November 1977
IN CORNERS cut off from the rude-boy violence in poor black Jamaican communities, reggae music took seed, an offshoot of calypso, ska, R&B, and, further ...
Boz Scaggs: Down Two then Left (Columbia JC 34729)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Rolling Stone, 23 February 1978
BOZ SCAGGS is a little like sex and show business. When he's good, he's very good, and when he's bad, he's not that bad. Down ...
Lou Reed: Bottom Line, New York NY
Live Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 20 March 1978
A FUNNY THING happened to Milton on the way to Paradise. He discovered the devils to be more fascinating than the angels, and that gave ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: New Boots and Panties!! (Stiff STF 0002)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1978
IAN DURY has fashioned New Boots and Panties!! out of the more vile and pernicious aspects of his social persona: he's the midnight rambler in ...
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY
Live Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 4 September 1978
Johnny Thunders: D.O.A., L.A.M.F. ...
Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry: A Perverse Romance
Profile by Susin Shapiro, New York Daily News, 15 April 1979
BRYAN FERRY, born in Newcastle, England, would make a perfect matinee idol. But though he has all the attributes — handsome, suave, with a slow-spreading, ...
The Cramps: Palladium, New York
Live Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 12 November 1979
PUNK AND PUMPKINS at the Palladium, turned for a night into a seance for Houdini. Garish garb and glorious: the human Quaalude, a walking cassette ...
The Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band: A John Lennon Album: "All You Need is Love"
Memoir by Susin Shapiro, New York Sunday News, 18 January 1981
THE LATE John Lennon. It doesn't sound good. It never will. ...
Adam & the Ants: That's Antertainment
Profile by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 15 April 1981
ANT MUSIC for sex people: what a snappy catechism, what a sly ad for an act, and what an act it is. Adam & the ...
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