David Browne is an American journalist and author of music biographies. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. 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, Rolling Stone, Spin, New Republic and Blender. He has written two books: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (2001) a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley, and also How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (2004). His third book, A Biography of Sonic Youth, was published in 2008 by Da Capo.