- Wrote for a number of music magazines, such as Phonograph Record, ZigZag and Hit Parader, as well as the New York City newspaper SoHo Weekly News.
- Founded the influential New York Rocker magazine in 1976.
- Founded the publishing house Shake Books in 1979.
- Attended CUNY/Queens College.
- Produced Blondie's first demos in 1975.
- He founded the fanzine JAMZ as an undergrad in 1971, which led to Rock Marketplace in 1973.
- Graduated from Newtown High School in Queens, New York.
- Wrote the critically acclaimed book Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound.
- His short-lived Shake Records (1979-1981) was the first to release recordings by the dB's, the Cosmopolitans and Marshall Crenshaw.
- Managed the New York punk band the Marbles.
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