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Andrew Earles

American music journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ112526790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andrew Earles is a music journalist. He is the author of the book Gimme Indie Rock. He has written articles for Paste, The A.V. Club Spin, and Memphis Flyer.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Andrew Earles” as american music journalist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. The account is most persuasive where Andrew, Earles and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american music journalist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112526790. VIAF identifies the subject as 122154209. The Library of Congress control number is n2010039882. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Earles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.