Gary Graff is an award-winning music journalist based in Detroit. He is a regular contributor to Billboard, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Media News Group, Ultimate Classic Rock, Consequence, and other publications, as well as to radio stations in Detroit and Milwaukee. He is the author of Alice Cooper at 75; co-author of Neil Young: Long May You Run, Rock 'n' Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Famous Legends, and Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger; and the series editor of the MusicHound Essential Album Guides. He is also co-founder and co-producer of the Emmy Award-winning Detroit Music Awards. Graff lives in Beverly Hills, Michigan.

"With more than 600 images and contributions from music's leading names, including journalists, historians, musicians and radio personalities, 501 Essential Albums of the '90s spans multiple genres, subgenres and everything in-between -- from the top-sellers to little-known hidden gems."

"501 Essential Albums of the 90s does offer a response to those who may look back and think this decade sparked a decline in music - it casts a wide net beyond the hits of the charts and takes a thoughtful snapshot across the decade that captured significant political and social change. You can dip in and out of this book and be entertained, perplexed (so many names were lauded and have now got lost in the mists of time, and inspired."

"You'll flip through the pages getting irked by the exclusions but pleased when one of your favorites appears. Which is exactly how a book like this should make you feel."