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Eric Danton

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  • Music Writer, Freelance
  • None, Freelance - paste, pitchfork, wall street journal, etc
Madrid, Northampton
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Covers:  Music, with occasional forays into film, television, food and sports.
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Eric R. Danton's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Paste, Pitchfork, Inside Hook, Bandcamp Daily, Salon, Flavorwire and more. He has also contributed to "Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide," No Depression (in its original print incarnation), The Bluegrass Situation and American Songwriter, as well as the bygone publications Performing Songwriter and Ironminds.com. He was rock critic at The Hartford Courant in Connecticut from…

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From ‘Skidmarks On My Heart’ to ‘Steppin’ Out,’ we built the ultimate road trip playlist

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By Lisa Weidenfeld , Victoria Wasylak , Esther Mobley , Mark Feeney , Christopher Muther , Annie Sarlin, Maura Johnston , James Sullivan , Candace McDuffie , Marc Hirsh, Stuart Munro, Eric Danton 
| The Boston Globe
If Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer, then it’s also the first weekend of road trip season, and your next joy ride needs a soundtrack. Great as it is, you can’t keep The Modern Lovers classic “Roadrunner” on repeat indefinitely — here’s a dozen critics’ picks to kick-start your next trek to the beach, the Berkshires, or wherever the summer months take you. 4 Non Blondes, “What’s Up” When you’re facing many miles to drive, you want something that everyone can get into.
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A fan in Boston confessed to stealing a lead singer’s identity — then he inspired the band’s next album

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By Eric Danton 
| The Boston Globe
Bret Kaser, singer of New York band Lip Critic, still isn’t sure exactly how someone obtained his bank information in 2024. But a subsequent string of fraudulent purchases — including the electro-punk band’s entire digital catalog on Bandcamp — made it clear that he wasn’t a random victim of identity theft. Then the thief showed up at a gig in Allston.
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Shakey Graves steps into fatherhood on Fondness, etc.

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By Eric Danton 
| Paste
Musicians who become parents sometimes feel compelled to write songs about it. But really, what is there to say? Every parenthood experience is unique, and also very much the same, and probably has been for something like three hundred thousand years since humans evolved. All the wonder or magic inherent in the process is deeply personal, and therefore dreary as hell when someone else sings about it.
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