Steven Daly was first a rock star, playing percussion for Orange Juice, the MOJO award-winning 1980s Glasgow band often credited with inventing “indie” rock, before becoming a critic and writer. He became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in May 1999, interviewing Johnny Deep for the magazine in 2004. Prior to that, he was a contributor to Rolling Stone, Interview, and Spin, where he served as music editor from 1991 to 1992. He also served as the US cultural correspondent for BBC Radio 1 from 1994 to 1997. Daly is a co-author of Alt.culture (HarperCollins, 1995) and of The Rock Snob’s Dictionary (Broadway, 2005). He lives in New York.
