By Steve Hochman for AOL’s <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2008/07/01/niyaz-one-world-two-entrancing-discs/"target="_blank"> spinner.com</a> , United States
Steve Hochman is a music critic who has covered the full spectrum of popular – and unpopular – music for the Los Angeles Times, writing the behind-the-scenes column Pop Eye for 14 of those years, as well as contributing regularly to Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and many other major – and minor – publications. He currently writes the global music column ‘Around the World’ for AOL's Spinner.com [1] and is heard as pop music critic for radio newsmagazine The California Report, by San Francisco public station KQED-FM.