Steven Blush

Steven Blush has written six books about rock music: American Hardcore, .45 Dangerous Minds, American Hair Metal, Lost Rockers, New York Rock, and When Rock Met Disco—and one about Billie Jean King's rebel tennis league, Bustin' Balls.

His journalism has appeared in over fifty publications, like Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, and the Times of London. Blush was a contributing editor to Paper Magazine. He got his start in the early '80s promoting punk rock shows in Washington DC, and then moved to NYC in 1986, where he published fifty-two issues of Seconds Magazine through 2000.

He wrote and produced the theatrically released, Sundance Film Festival–premiered doc film American Hardcore. His follow-up film with director Paul Rachman, Lost Rockers, about great forgotten rock musicians, came out in 2017.