David Browne is an American journalist and author. He is currently a senior writer at Rolling Stone,^[1] where he has been a contributor since 2008. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006.^[2] He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW. He has written articles for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Spin,^[3] The New Republic and Time, as well as stories for NPR.^[4]

Browne is the author of six books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001),^[5] a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004),^[6] a history of extreme sports; Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008);^[7] Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 (Da Capo, 2011);^[8] So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Da Capo, 2015);^[9] and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup (Da Capo, 2019).^[10] The latter title received a starred review in Kirkus and was included in the Summer Reading issue of The New York Times in May 2019.^[11][12]

Browne was born and raised in New Jersey and attended New York University, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism, with a minor in music. He lives in Manhattan.