Category:American music critics

• List of chief music critics

A

• John Ardoin
• William Armstrong (music critic)
• William Ashbrook

B

• Amiri Baraka
• Martin Bernheimer
• Rudi Blesh
• Adam Block
• Stanley Booth
• John M. Borack
• Raymond D. Bowman
• Franklin Bruno

C

• Charles Wakefield Cadman
• Claudia Cassidy
• Jeff Chang (journalist)
• Robert Christgau
• Donald Clarke (writer)
• Byron Coley
• James Lincoln Collier
• J. D. Considine
• Stanley Crouch
• Cameron Crowe
• Will Crutchfield
• Michael Cuscuna

D

• Marcia Davenport
• Justin Davidson
• Anthony DeCurtis
• Reginald De Koven
• Olin Downes
• John Sullivan Dwight

E

• Gerald Early
• Dawn Eden
• Alfred Einstein
• Ralph Ellison
• Herbert Elwell
• Stephen Thomas Erlewine

F

• Mary Ann Feldman
• Henry Theophilus Finck
• Smokey Fontaine
• Sasha Frere-Jones
• William Henry Fry

G

• Elliott Galkin
• Kyle Gann
• Nelson George
• Gary Giddins
• Lawrence Gilman
• Ralph J. Gleason
• Richard Franko Goldman
• Alan Goldsher
• Dawn Eden Goldstein
• Martin Gottfried
• Joey Guerra
• Edna Gundersen
• Peter Guralnick

H

• B. H. Haggin
• Philip Hale
• Phillip E. Hardy
• Lou Harrison
• William James Henderson
• Robert Hilburn
• Stephen Holden
• Bernard Holland (music critic)
• Joel Honig
• Silas House
• Allen Hughes
• James Huneker

J

• Isabel Morse Jones
• James Jorden

K

• Ashley Kahn
• Edgar Stillman Kelley
• Mark Kemp
• Chuck Klosterman
• Gustav Kobbé
• Irving Kolodin
• Greg Kot
• Allan Kozinn
• Henry Edward Krehbiel

L

• Paul Henry Lang
• Matt LeMay
• Miles Marshall Lewis
• Alan Light
• Alan Lomax
• Peter B. Lowry

M

• Lois Maffeo
• Janet Maguire
• Brian Mansfield
• Greil Marcus
• Janet Maslin
• Tris McCall
• Joseph McLellan
• Richard Meltzer
• Arthur Mendel
• Anne Midgette
• Brett Milano
• Andrew Moravcsik
• Albert Murray (writer)

N

• Paul Nelson (critic)
• Jay Nordlinger

O

• Preston Ware Orem

P

• Robert Palmer (writer)
• Jon Pareles
• Harvey Pekar
• Edmund J. Pendleton
• Henry Pleasants (music critic)
• Scott Poulson-Bryant
• Ann Powers
• Anil Prasad
• Barbara Gardner Proctor

R

• Ned Raggett
• Fred Ramsey
• Harrison Ridley Jr.
• Charles Rosen
• Paul Rosenfeld
• Alex Ross (music critic)

S

• Francis Saltus Saltus
• Pitts Sanborn
• Greg Sandow
• Winthrop Sargeant
• Mike Saunders
• Andy Secher
• Bernard Seigal
• Mike Settle
• Greg Shaw
• Rob Sheffield
• Robert Shelton (critic)
• Robert A. Simon
• Jack Skurnick
• Linda Solomon
• Marc Spitz
• Sebastian Spreng
• Lou Stathis
• Michael Steinberg (music critic)
• Dick Sudhalter
• Jim Svejda
• Jan Swafford

T

• Howard Taubman
• Deems Taylor
• Virgil Thomson
• Nick Tosches
• Touré (journalist)
• Lester Trimble
• Ken Tucker

U

• Richie Unterberger

W

• Gregg Wager
• Harry Warner, Jr.
• Douglas Watt (critic)
• Armond White
• Ted White (author)
• Timothy White (editor)
• Paul Williams (music journalist)
• Ellen Willis
• John S. Wilson (music critic)
• Douglas Wolk

Z

• Edward Ziegler (music journalist)