Andrew Harrison is an English music journalist who has worked as a staff writer for NME, Select, Mixmag, The Word, and Q, and freelance for Rolling Stone, The Face, The Guardian, The Observer and Mojo. In 2008 he coined the term landfill indie, which VICE described as referring to the "procession of homogenous [guitar] bands" that dominated the UK charts in the early-2000s.[1]
Harrison was born in Liverpool in 1967, and entered music journalism as a teenager in the mid-1980s, at first publishing live reviews in local press before becoming a staff writer for the NME in the late 1980s and for Select in the early 1990s. In the mid 2000s he joined and then edited The Word until February 2012, when he became editor of Q until April 2013, during a period when print magazines were undergoing double-digit year-on-year decline.[2][3]
As of 2021, he continues to publish as a music critic, and hosts the "Bigmouth" and "Oh God, What Now?" (formerly "Remainiacs") podcasts.
- ^ Akinfenwa, Jumi. "The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time". VICE, 27 August 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2021
- ^ "Andrew Harrison appointed editor of Q". Press Gazette, 9 February 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2021
- ^ "Andrew Harrison". The Guardian, October 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2021