"Who Am Us, Anyway?" -- Firesign Theatre

The Official Bio

Bill has interviewed and written features on artists including Todd Rundgren, The Flaming Lips, Yoko Ono, Crowded House, Porcupine Tree, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Jethro Tull, KT Tunstall, Andy Partridge, Robyn Hitchcock, Roky Erickson, The Polyphonic Spree, Zoé, Thrice, Fall Out Boy, Dungen, Sean Lennon, Pete Yorn, The Residents, Los Straitjackets, Radio Birdman, Veruca Salt, Richard X Heyman, Tommy Keene, Marshall Crenshaw, Bob Moog, The Veronicas, The New York Dolls, Johnny Winter and many others. He's reported on the Bonnaroo and Echo Project festivals, and written about consumer products including the Microsoft Zune, Rock Band: The Game and many others.

He's currently writing a book that surveys unreleased music throughout the rock era. He pens the "Bootleg Bin" and "Blast from the Past" columns, plus album reviews and features. He lives in a century-old house in Asheville, NC with his vintage motorcycle, teenage son (his daughter's away at University), and way too many synthesizers.

The Real Story

Even when I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be a Rock Journalist™. People who have seen the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity say that John Cusack's character reminds them of me. I'm fanatically organized yet generally unshaven; I'm comfortable in front of a crowd but ill-at-ease among one; I'm old-fashioned at times yet very liberal, very open to new ideas and experiences. In short, I'm just as simple and complex as everybody else.

With the demise of Skope Magazine (a wonderful but cavalierly-managed national print magazine where I served as editor for a couple years), I sought an outlet for my musings on music. While I continue to write for a wide array of publications -- generally under my own name, sometimes without a byline -- I put Musoscribe.com together as a means to collect all of my music-related writing (past, present and future) into one handy place. I hope it serves to inform and amuse.

My other ("day") job is the running of a one-man marketing and web design firm. I've been at it since 1996. Details here.

Note to Artists, Labels and PR reps: Your CDs for potential review are welcomed and encouraged. I'm already on the mailing lists for many of the major PR reps (you know who you are). If I'm not on your list, please feel free to add me. My tastes run decidedly toward the rock end of the musical spectrum, so if you (or your clients) are a "boy band," metal outfit, run-of-the-mill hip-hop artist or mainstream C&W performer, save your stamp, as it were.