Steven Daly began his career as the drummer for Orange Juice, the MOJO award-winning 1980s Glasgow band often credited with inventing 'indie' rock. He moved to New York in 1989 and worked for Spin, GQ and Rolling Stone. In 1999 he joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor and his cover stories include a 2004 profile of Johnny Depp. Daly is co-author of alt.culture (1995) and of The Rock Snob's Dictionary (2005.) He lives in Brooklyn, New York.