Reynolds is an English music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term
"post-rock." He is the author of "Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop," “Retromania: Pop Cultures Addiction to its Own Past” and most recently, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century.”