Died On This Date (August 28, 2011) Dan Sicko / Journalist Who Chronicled Detroit Techno Scene
themusicsover Dan Sicko
DOB Unknown – August 28, 2011
Dan Sicko was a respected music journalist and author whose work has appeared in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Urb, and Wired. A tireless advocate for techno music, Sicko also lectured on the subject at UCLA and the University of Michigan, among others. In 1999, he published Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk, which introduced many to the influential Detroit techno scene of the ’80s. Dan Sicko was 42 when he died from complications of ocular melanoma.