Meters, published in Francis Ford Coppola’s magazine, City of San Francisco. He went on to contribute numerous articles to entertainment magazine Sunday Datebook on artists including Sly Stone, Stevie Nicks, the Clash, The B-52’s, Muddy Waters, and Flipper; he photographed and interviewed legendary film director Nicholas Ray for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Rolling Stone From 1975 until the end of 1983, Goldberg developed his writing and reporting skills, getting published in magazines including Esquire, downbeat, Creem, Musician, New West, New Musical Express and more. "For those nine years my focus was to become a staff writer at Rolling Stone—that was my goal," he said, and during the last two of those years his freelance articles began to appear in the magazine. Hired at the end of 1983, he spent a decade at Rolling Stone as West Coast music editor and senior writer. He wrote three Michael Jackson cover stories, as well as numerous other cover stories including Live Aid, Stevie Wonder, Boy George, and James Brown. He also wrote investigative pieces on music and the mob, the death of Dennis Wilson, the troubles of Brian Wilson and profiles of many artists including Robbie Robertson, Chris Isaak, and the first in-depth interview with Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr. During his time at Rolling Stone, Goldberg and writer Michael Snyder put together the Flamin' Groovies album Groovies' Greatest Grooves, for which they selected the tracks and wrote the liner notes. Goldberg also co-founded National Records, which released Rock Juice, the Flamin' Groovies' first album of new material in 13 years, in 1992. Addicted To Noise In late 1993, after leaving Rolling Stone, Goldberg came up with the idea of an online music magazine. After trying unsuccessfully to interest established media companies in his business plan, and with just $5,000 in the bank, he partnered with programmer Jon Luini to launch Addicted To Noise (ATN). ATN, which went live December 1, 1994, was the first online magazine to include audio samples alongside new album reviews. ATN'''s daily "Music News of the World" quickly became a source of music news used by MTV, numerous radio stations throughout the world, and many print publications including the NME and Melody Maker. In 1997, Addicted To Noise was acquired by Paradigm Music Entertainment (and merged with SonicNet, another music website), which in turn was acquired by TCI Music. In 1999, Viacom acquired TCI Music and folded