Tom Moon
Tom Moon has been writing about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and the music of the world since 1983.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die (Workman Publishing), and a contributor to other books including The Final Four of Everything.
A saxophonist whose professional credits include stints on cruise ships and several tours with the Maynard Ferguson orchestra, Moon served as music critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1988 until 2004. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Blender, Spin, Vibe, Harp and other publications, and has won several awards, including two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Music Journalism awards. He has contributed to NPR's All Things Considered since 1996.
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NPR's Tom Moon reviews the ninth album from Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool.
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Tom Moon says simplicity is beauty in the new live album from Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
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Hear the new album by "The Screaming Eagle of Soul," which cleverly balances the vintage and the modern.
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Music reviewer Tom Moon says the latest from gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples is the most stirring of her recent releases. He reviews Livin' on a High Note.
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Tom Moon reviews the new album from 77-year-old jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with music critic Tom Moon about the death of Glenn Frey, a founding member of The Eagles.
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The score gives Alejandro Gonz谩lez I帽谩rritu's film its emotional baseline, summoning the profound disquiet of a forbidding winter in the American West.
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NPR looks back on the career of Scott Weiland, singer in the bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. Weiland died in his sleep on Thursday at age 48.
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Lynne resurrects Electric Light Orchestra with vulnerability and rumpled grace, finding a strange alchemy of melody, harmony and rhythm.
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The fevered 14 months captured here represent the moment when Dylan became comfortable in his shoes 鈥� and, if not yet confident about every decision, at least trusting the authority of his writing.