Milano, Brett

Brett Milano is a longtime Boston-based music journalist who once interviewed Joey Ramone and Barry Manilow on the same day. He compiled and annotated the Boston punk history CD "Mass. Ave: The Boston Scene" (on Rhino); and has written liner notes for albums by Todd Rundgren, The Cars, and The Smithereens. He has written for "Billboard", "Pulse" and the "College Media Journal"; and can now be read weekly in the "Boston Herald" and the "Boston Phoenix". He is the author of the book "Vinyl Junkies".