Steve Hochman

Steve Hochman has written about music for more than 30 years, most of that time as a key member of the Los Angeles Times' music team. In that capacity he wrote about the full range of music and musicians, from Hungarian folk to industrial noise, and from 1991 through 2005 wrote the Times' widely read weekly "Pop Eye" column. He has contributed to San Francisco station KQED's The California Report and Pasadena station KPCC's Take Two. He has been a regular contributor to Grammy.com, Fender.com and other outlets. Hochman's byline has appeared through the years in an array of major publications, including Rolling Stone, Billboard, HuffPost, and Entertainment Weekly and New Orleans' Offbeat. He currently writes for The Bluegrass Situation. He has contributed liner notes to a number of recordings.