email jeff@jeffvrabel.com
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Oh, hi. My name’s Jeff, I’m a writer and editor for Nickelodeon’s NickMom.com, humor columnist, music journalist and former Hoosier/Chicagoan based on the coast of Carolina.
Currently, the pieces that I optimistically refer to as humor columns appear weekly in GateHouse Media newspapers nationwide. (That’s right: A newspaper company. Business is going really well, thanks for asking.) My humor pieces have also been published in Modern Bride, Paste, Metromix, the Chicago Sun-Times, Indy Men’s Magazine, Elegant Bride, the WordPress.com home page and distributed nationally through the McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
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Interviewing the Avett Brothers at Bonnaroo 2010
My music writing has appeared in Billboard, (for whom I covered Bonnaroo in 2009 and 2010), Paste, RollingStone.com, No Depression, All About Jazz, the Chicago Sun-Times, Metromix, the Indianapolis Star, the official brucespringsteen.net site, the preeminent Springsteen magazine Backstreets, the Florida Times-Union, the lively blog PopDose, the Village Voice and several dozen Neil Diamond message boards, because wow can those people not take a joke.
In this context I’ve interviewed and/or profiled the Beastie Boys, Gnarls Barkley, four members of the E Street Band, the Avett Brothers, the Drive-By Truckers, John Prine, Billy Joel, Tom Jones, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Snoop Dogg, among many others.
December 26th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Regarding your Christmas Day declaration of McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” as the worst all-time Christmas song, well – clearly you have never heard Barbra Streisand’s rendition of “Jingle Bells.”
December 26th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Marilyn, I stand fully corrected. Thanks for the hideous tip