Byron Coley

Byron Coley is an American music writer, editor and poet who has written about underground music since the late 1970s. He wrote early on for New York Rocker, co-edited the fanzine Forced Exposure with Jimmy Johnson and wrote the Underground column for Spin. He lives in Western Massachusetts, where he runs the Feeding Tube Records label and shop with Ted Lee. Coley also writes for The Wire. With Thurston Moore he worked on the Ecstatic Yod label and compiled No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 (Abrams Image, 2008).