Shawn Macomber
Shawn Macomber is a writer, film and music journalist, documentary talking head, and occasional film programmer in Miami, Florida. In addition to appearing on the television series The Story of the Songs and When Metal Ruled the 80s, his work has been seen in Decibel, the Wall Street Journal, Yankee, Fangoria, Reason, Radar, Magnet, Maxim, Rue Morgue, Stereogum, or The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere.
Macomber has also edited more than twenty novels, comics, and nonfiction books; has been reprinted in college textbooks (Seeing & Writing 3;McGraw Hill's World Politics); was for years among the music critics surveyed yearly by the Village Voice as part of its Pazz & Jop year in music special edition; and presented at the 2012 Emp Pop Conference held at New York University on underground heavy metal in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Macomber has also edited more than twenty novels, comics, and nonfiction books; has been reprinted in college textbooks (Seeing & Writing 3;McGraw Hill's World Politics); was for years among the music critics surveyed yearly by the Village Voice as part of its Pazz & Jop year in music special edition; and presented at the 2012 Emp Pop Conference held at New York University on underground heavy metal in post-Katrina New Orleans.
