Art Tavana
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Art Tavana is an American journalist and author from the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He initially achieved notoriety as a music journalist at L.A. Weekly.[1], covering everything from the Burger Records[2] scene to the reunion of Guns N' Roses.
As a columnist at L.A. Weekly and Playboy, Tavana won an L.A. Press Club Award at the 59th SoCal Journalism Awards.[3]
On April 1, 2016, Tavana became the only journalist to attend and review the Guns N' Roses reunion show at the Troubadour. The review[4] (published in the L.A. Weekly) went viral and helped Tavana secure a book deal with ECW Press.
His first published book was Goodbye, Guns N' Roses[5] (2021), which was described by PopMatters as an "important contribution to conversations about the legacy of hard rock and the ways we reckon with problematic art."[6]
Career[edit]
Between 2013 and 2017, Tavana wrote a weekly column for L.A. Weekly. His profile[7] of former porn actress and author Sasha Grey was nominated for an L.A. Press Club Award. Grey commented on the notable profile by stating, "Who is Sasha Grey anyway? I'm glad they [Art Tavana] wrote this story because maybe I'll find out."
Tavana has written features for Pitchfork[8], VICE[9], Spin, Billboard[10], The A.V. Club[11], Paste, and Consequence of Sound[12], among others. In 2014, Tavana profiled the reclusive internet celebrity and "Hollywood Heiress"[13] Lauren Alice Avery in a cover story for L.A. Weekly, which would mark one of Alice Avery's final public appearances.
Tavana's coverage focused predominately on profiling female musicians such as Colleen Green[14], The Death Valley Girls[15], The Vivian Girls[16], and L.A. Witch[17], the Go-Go's[18], and Lana Del Rey.[19]
However, on June 17, 2016, Tavana published a provocative essay on indie-pop star and "indie sleaze" icon[20] Sky Ferreira titled "Sky Ferreira's Sex Appeal is What Pop Music Needs Right Now," which received a wide-range of criticism[21], including a response[22] from Ferreira herself. Author Bret Easton Ellis would defend[23] Tavana in an "excoriating monologue,"[24] describing Tavana's critics as "snowflakes" and "social justice warriors." Tavana's writing was later discussed in a chapter of Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction, White[25] (2019).
Between 2017 and 2019, Tavana was a columnist at Playboy, where covered the emerging culture wars with profiles and interviews with everyone from Fox News' Tomi Lahren to provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Tavana conducted the final interview with legendary political satirist and former National Lampoon editor P.J. O'Rourke[26], who passed away on February 15, 2022.[27]
That same year, Tavana was hired as the Arts & Culture editor of The Spectator[28]. Tavana's work has been discussed by BBC Radio 5, TMZ, The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast[29], Business Insider[30], Nylon[31], and New York Magazine[32].
References[edit]
- ↑ Tavana, Art (August 5, 2014). "Why L.A. is More Punk Than New York".
- ↑ Tavana, Art (May 5, 2014). "Burger a-Go-Go: A Punk Rock Lilith Fair?". Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Club, Los Angeles Press (2017-06-26). "59th SoCal Journalism Awards Winners Announced". Los Angeles Press Club. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (April 1, 2016). "Here's What It Felt Like Seeing Guns N' Roses at the Troubadour".
- ↑ "Goodbye, Guns N' Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band". ECW Press. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ "Music Journalist Art Tavana Gets in the Ring with Guns n' Roses". www.popmatters.com. 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (May 26, 2016). "Who is Sasha Grey? My Day with L.A.'s Most Misunderstood Sex Symbol".
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2015-09-30). "Democracy of Sound: Is GarageBand Good for Music?". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (2015-02-17). "Colleen Green Is the Coolest of the Anti-Cool on 'I Want To Grow Up'". Vice. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (2018-12-22). "The Divisive Legacy & Surprising Future of Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy'". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ ""Sweet Child O' Mine" marked a turning point for Guns N' Roses". The A.V. Club. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ "I Saw Ty Segall Four Days in a Row, and Here Is What Happened". 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (March 28, 2016). "The Night I Was "Kidnapped" by an Instagram-Famous Hollywood Heiress".
- ↑ Tavana, Art (June 27, 2013). "Colleen Green: DIY Rocker, Unemployed Stoner".
- ↑ Tavana, Art (February 27, 2014). "Five More Awesome Female-Fronted L.A. Bands".
- ↑ Tavana, Art (February 17, 2014). "The Vivian Girls' Final Show in L.A.!".
- ↑ "The Cult of L.A. Witch | Tom Tom Magazine". 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (December 21, 2016). "Why the Hell Aren't the Go-Go's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?".
- ↑ Tavana, Art (2024-03-02). "Lana Del Rey: In Praise of a Difficult Woman". Arc Digital. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Pirovic, Jasmine (2022-02-23). "Sky Ferreira is a well-seasoned icon of indie sleaze style". RUSSH. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Carpentier, Megan (2016-06-22). "Sky Ferreira has a talent for more than looking sexy – despite one critic's crush". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Planes, Pigeons and. "Sky Ferreira Responds to Sexist Article: "I'm more than my sex appeal or my knockers"". Complex. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ↑ Ellis, Bret Easton (2016-08-04). "Bret Easton Ellis weighs in on the 'snowflake generation'". LAmag. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ↑ "Read Bret Easton Ellis' excoriating monologue on social justice warriors". The Independent. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Ellis, Bret Easton (2019-04-12). "A First Look at the New Bret Easton Ellis Book Everyone's Talking About". LAmag. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ↑ "Playboy Magazine". www.playboy.com. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Legaspi, Althea (2022-02-15). "P.J. O'Rourke, Celebrated Journalist and Conservative Satirist, Dead at 74". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Tavana, Art (2022-12-20). "Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later". The Spectator World. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (Podcast Series 2013) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ Lesniara, Tomasz. "A discontinued Lana Del Rey necklace has gone viral, with people selling them for over $1,000". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ↑ "The Obsessive Virality Of Lana Del Rey Merchandise". Nylon. 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ↑ "Comments: Week of June 19, 2023". New York Magazine. 2023-06-19. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
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