Career
His fourth book, a biography of Game Theory"s Scott Miller, was published in October 2015. According to the Boston Globe, Milano is a veteran music critic whose 2007 book,: A History of Boston Rock and Roll, "should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding Boston"s unique contribution to rock "n" roll." Milano entered the Boston music scene in the 1980s as a music journalist. He was a long-time columnist for the Boston Phoenix, as well as the Boston Globe and Sound & Vision magazine.
Milano has also written for publications such as Billboard, Pulse, and the College Media Journal.
In 2013, he became the editor of OffBeat, where he has written about music since 2005. Turning his hand to fiction, he is the author of two short stories anthologized in the 2011 and 2012 volumes of Tales from the House Band, a series of books edited by Deborah Grabien.
He has been interviewed in documentary films as an authority on rock music, and has written liner notes for albums by Todd Rundgren, the Cars, and the Smithereens. He compiled and annotated the 1993 Rhino Records Civil Defense release Doctorate.I.Y.: Massachusetts
Avenue: The Boston Scene (1975-1983), a compilation of Boston punk history.
Milano attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst before relocating to Boston in 1980. Foreign three years in the early 1990s, he worked in Los Angeles doing A&R and publicity for Alias Records and Rhino Records. He also worked for Harmonix as a writer, editor, and researcher for its Rock Band video game.
