Marc Spitz, Veteran Music Journalist and Author, Dead at 47

Marc Spitz, a music journalist, playwright and author, has died at the age of 47. Rolling Stone has confirmed the author's death, though a cause was not immediately available.
Spitz wrote for publications including Spin, the New York Times, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and was the author of several music books including 2001's We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (co-written with Brendan Mullen and a "West Coast counterpart" to Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's iconic Please Ki