Roy Trakin
Verified- Senior News Editor, All Access
- Editorial, Content Provider and Media Consultant, Freelance
- Contributor, Variety
Los Angeles
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Variety,
IMDb,
Medium,
MSN,
MSN New Zealand,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Business Insider,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News Malaysia,
Yahoo News UK,
Aol
and
Pop culture pundit, rock critic vet, Noo Yawker exiled in L.A. since '85.
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Roy Trakin’s Biography
Read Full Bio →ROY TRAKIN is a pop culture critic, rock aficionado, published author, TV pundit, radio host and former lead singer for the legendary punk group The Geeks, not to mention diehard Mets/Knicks/Jets fan who has written for every music magazine that matters, and many that have disappeared from the face of the earth, starting out with the Soho Weekly News, and including, among others, New York Rocker, Musician, Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, HITS, VARIETY and POLLSTAR. He recently cremated his young…
Roy Trakin’s Journalist Portfolio
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A Special Time in Rock: 1966 on the Sunset Strip : A kid might jam with Jimi Hendrix or hitch a r...
Interview
See all 12 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Freelance writer for Soho Weekly News, an alternative paper in NY
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. Second: Jimmy Olsen.