Nick Kent

Nick Kent is a British music journalist and author associated with New Musical Express and the British rock press. He has also written for The Face, The Sunday Times, Spin, The Guardian and Mojo. His early interview subjects included the MC5, Captain Beefheart, the Stooges and Lou Reed.

Kent collected music writing in The Dark Stuff and revisited his own experiences in Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir, published in 2010. The memoir combines encounters with musicians and fellow writers with an account of addiction and his changing place within the music scene.