Writer & Editor · Music & Culture · Boston & Beyond
After spending almost a decade with Metro Newspapers, the stories Pat Healy has written and overseen as Music Editor have reached as many as 17 million readers in 19 countries.
For two years he was the Features Editor for Metro US — a daily newspaper in New York, Boston and Philadelphia — managing a team of eight full-time staffers and a stable of freelancers. Coverage spans arts, travel, film, celebrity, sex, wellbeing and more.
He has been a lifestyle columnist for the Boston Globe Magazine and has freelanced for Paste and MOJO.
A look at some of Pat Healy's best music journalism
Some of Pat Healy's best arts and entertainment stories
Hosted by Pat Healy — all episodes written, produced and hosted in-house
On the first Monday of the month, Pat Healy hosts the Metro Monthly Music Podcast — a dose of music from bands to listen out for, words of wisdom from bands you already know, and a number of offbeat segments that challenge guests and listeners to reconsider their notions of music history. Beginning in April of 2009, Healy has welcomed such diverse talents as Ozzy Osbourne, Drake, Howard Zinn, Drew Barrymore, and Odd Future onto the MMMPod. All episodes are available on iTunes.
Roger Taylor of Queen on the "We Will Rock You" beat and the Queen Extravaganza. Ice-T on his new movie. The Walkmen on chilling out. Santigold on getting psyched up. Ian Astbury of The Cult freely admitting his band ripped off AC/DC — and blaming Rick Rubin.
John Irving, Ira Glass, Regina Spektor, M. Ward, Mike Doughty, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Plus: does Sting do it in the shower?
Celebrating the future in SXSW breakout discoveries (Youth Lagoon, Cloud Nothings) and the past in a retrospective on the podcast's early years. Who makes Daryl Hall's dreams come true? And who is that "Somebody That I Used to Know" to Gotye?
Pat Healy has authored a number of editorial series for the Boston Globe Magazine and Metro Newspapers
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