Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines...

freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. Rock journalist Lester Bangs, impressed with William's writing, gives him a $35 assignment to review...

band split after one album, but Bangs' discussion of the imagined subsequent records is entirely fanciful. Bangs, Lester (ed. Greil Marcus) (1987, 2003)...

experimental work had on Reed years later. In an interview with rock journalist Lester Bangs, Reed stated that he "had also been listening to Xenakis a lot." He also...

has inspired a number of imitators, and called him the Lester Bangs of video games. Like Bangs, Park wrote, Gastrow is an industry outsider, has created...

critic Lester Bangs to be the best live album ever. The biggest concert the band gave was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part of the A Bigger Bang Tour, in...

Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname and given name. Lester Bangs (1948–1982), American music critic Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997), American...

1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. Influential critic Lester Bangs served as the magazine's editor from 1971 to 1976. It suspended production...

as 1977 by Lester Bangs to describe punk band the Dead Boys in an article appearing in the October 24 edition of The Village Voice. Bangs describes the...

DeRogatis conducted one of the last interviews with rock critic Lester Bangs, two weeks before Bangs's death of a drug overdose. Over a decade later, this encounter...