birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
appleton , wisconsin 7 september 1977 steven hyden
 steven hyden writer , music critic
steven hyden

steven hyden -lrb- born september 7 , 1977 -rrb- is an american music critic .
he currently works as a staff writer at grantland and as a contributing writer at pitchfork .
hyden previously worked at the a.v. club as an editor .
his music criticism has been published in several other outlets including rolling stone , slate , american songwriter and salon.com .
additionally , hyden co-wrote the book `` inventory : 16 films featuring manic pixie dream girls , 10 great songs nearly ruined by saxophone , and 100 more obsessively specific pop-culture lists . ''
in 2011 , he published the e-book `` whatever happened to alternative nation ? ''
, a critical analysis and personal reflection on '90s alternative rock that originally ran as a 10-part series at the a.v. club .
hyden recently completed work on his first book , a collection of essays on music rivalries , which will be published by little , brown and company in 2016 .
he was born and raised in wisconsin , and he graduated from the university of wisconsin-eau claire .
