Eric Danton is the music critic for The Hartford Courant, writing for both the paper's print edition and daily on The Courant.com's "Sound Check" blog. He also appears on FOX CT for a weekly "Sound Check" spot.
Originally from Littleton, Colorado, Danton has lived in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts since high school, when Pink Floyd was his jam. Hired straight out of college by The Courant in 1998 with the intention of being a political reporter, Danton instead began covering music, eventually becoming the Courant's music critic.
He covers every genre except for jazz and classical, while ignoring the particularly crazy comment posts on his blog. A guitarist and sometimes-vocalist himself, Danton performed with and wrote several songs for Hartford Courant supergroup "CQ and the Corrections". As a songwriter, his favorite creation is his three minute (non-creepy) pop tribute to Johnny Cash, the appropriately titled "Johnny Cash".
An unabashed 'American Idol' hater (though with a soft spot for Kelly Clarkson) but a proponent of vinyl, good song-writing, and local indie music, find out even more about Eric Danton by watching our interview.