Baltimore native Patrick Kennedy is a respected music and travel writer, author, and musician. Having contributed to Alternative Press, CMJ

College Music Journal

College Music Journal, commonly known as CMJ, is a music events/publishing company which hosts an annual festival in New York City, the CMJ Music Marathon, as well as a weekly magazine of and for the music industry and college radio stations in the United States and Canada. It publishes top 30...

, Details

Details (magazine)

Details is an American monthly men's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, founded in 1982. Though primarily a magazine devoted to fashion and lifestyle, Details also features reports on relevant social and political issues.-History:...

, Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore City Paper is a free alternative weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1977 by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch. Current owner Times-Shamrock Communications purchased the paper in 1987...

, Baltimore Magazine

Baltimore magazine

Baltimore is a regional monthly magazine published in Baltimore, Maryland by Rosebud Entertainment L.L.C. It is the oldest continuously published city magazine in the continental U.S. and was first printed in 1907....

, Bizarre

Bizarre (magazine)

Bizarre is a British alternative magazine published from 1997 to the present. It is currently published by Dennis Publishing; it is a sister publication to the Fortean Times.-Content:...

, Punk Planet

Punk Planet

Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music, Punk Planet also covered visual arts and a wide...

, Big Brother (magazine)

Big Brother (magazine)

Big Brother was a skateboarding magazine founded by Steve Rocco, which was notable for ushering in street skating and the sub-culture of skateboarding....

, the Allmusic, and many others, he has made his mark as a champion of often overlooked and maligned, sturdy, durable music, from hard rock to punk to the heaviest and most extreme metal, genres many critics routinely dismiss as beneath their alleged refined and sensitive ears. His critical point of view is influenced by the infamous and gutsy Joe Carducci

Joe Carducci

Joe Carducci is an American writer, record producer, and former A&R executive, formerly most closely associated with the influential record label SST Records....

 and by his own decade plus of touring dive clubs all over America and Europe with his bands Ironboss and Taipan

Taipan

The taipans are a genus of large, fast, highly venomous Australasian snakes of the elapid family.-Overview:The taipan was named by Donald Thomson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.There are three known species: the coastal...

 (who also includes Steve Austin of Today is the Day

Today is the Day

Today Is the Day is an experimental noise rock/metal/grindcore band from Nashville, Tennessee. They have a diverse sound that includes influences from alternative rock, grindcore, & progressive rock among other genres...

). As a musician, he has performed with (in addition to Ironboss and Taipan) Squatweiler, the Candysnatchers, the Glenmont Popes. He is currently at work on his first two novels.