Steve Hochman has been covering popular and unpopular music for more than 30 years. He’s heard regularly talking about new music on Pasadena public radio station KPCC‘s “Take Two” and San Francisco station KQED’s “The California Report,” writes for BuzzBandsLA and Music Aficionado. From 1985 into the late 2000’s he was part of the core music team of the Los Angeles Times, also writing for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Musician, Entertainment Weekly and various other fine outlets, and for a stretch did the weekly global music column Around the World for AOL’s Spinner.com.