Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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By the way, Robert Christgau writes an occasional blog for the National Arts Journalism Program. There's a link on the sidebar to the blog (NAJP Blog), which includes other posts from NAJP writers. Recent posts by Christgau, covering a little more than two months (oldest is 10/24/2008):

The Music Club

Slate has published a new set of "The Music Club" roundtable discussions between Jody Rosen, Ann Powers, and Robert Christgau.

  1. Jody Rosen: My Top 10 Albums and Top 25 Singles
  2. Ann Powers: Twilight of the Pop Gods
  3. Robert Christgau: My Lists
  4. Jody Rosen: Pop Stars Are Not M.I.A.
  5. Ann Powers: In Defense of Axl Rose
  6. Robert Christgau: TV on the Radio Unites Us
  7. Jody Rosen: The Best Recording of 2008 Was the Oldest
  8. Ann Powers: Is the Internet Making Us Love Insular Music?
  9. Robert Christgau: Do You Ever Fantasize About Being A Movie Critic?
NPR Updates

We should be adding notices every time Robert Christgau appears on NPR's "All Things Considered," but haven't managed to update the website in a timely enough matter. Since August:

The whole list is accessible via the NPR link on the sidebar. At the bottom of that page is a link that searches NPR for more recent pieces -- info that should be up to date even when we aren't.

Rock & Roll &: The List and the Listener

After a two-year hiatus, Robert Christgau's Rock & Roll & has a new home: the online-only Barnes & Noble Review, where it will appear midmonth every month, on the Monday closest to the 15th. As planned, the revived column will cover plenty of rock & roll but have more of that second & in it.

Consumer Guide (December 2008)

New Consumer Guide for December 2008. Featured albums:

  • Buena Vista Social Club: At Carnegie Hall (Nonesuch) [B+]
  • Chromeo: Fancy Footwork (Vice) [A-]
  • Franco: Francophonic (Sterns Africa) [A+]
  • GZA/Genius: Pro Tools (Babygrande) [B+]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Actual Factual Pterodactyl (Boy Sand Industries) [A-]
  • Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture) [A-]
  • T.I.: Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) [A-]
  • Plies: Definition of Real (Big Gates/Slip N Slide/Atlantic) [D+]
Fence (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Carola Dibbell's unpublished novel, A Real Piece of Work, has been excerpted in Fence, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2008-2009. It is available from SPD. The table of contents is here.

Blender (December 2008)

New reviews:

Consumer Guide (November 2008)

New Consumer Guide for November 2008. Featured albums:

  • Asylum Street Spankers: What? And Give Up Show Biz? (Yellow Dog) [A-]
  • Robert Creeley: Really! (Paris [A-]
  • Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: Angles (Strange Famous) [A-]
  • El Guincho: Alegranza (XL) [A-]
  • Jesus H Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse: Happier Than You (jesushchristrocks.com) [A-]
  • The Mighty Underdogs: Droppin' Science Fiction (Def Jux) [B+]
  • TV on the Radio: Dear Science (Interscope) [A]
  • Sir Victor Uwaifo: Guitar-Boy Superstar: 1970-1976 (Soundway) [A-]
  • Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) [C+]
Blender (November 2008)

New reviews:

Consumer Guide (October 2008)

New Consumer Guide for October 2008. Featured albums:

  • Kimya Dawson and Friends: Alphabutt (K) [A-]
  • Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (Illegal Art) [A]
  • Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love (Matador) [A-]
  • Kasai Allstars: In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic (Crammed Discs) [B+]
  • Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.) [B+]
  • Taj Mahal: Maestro (Heads Up) [A-]
  • Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It (Columbia) [A]
  • Wire: Object 47 (Pinkflag) [B+]
  • Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade) [C-]
Blender (October 2008)

New reviews:

America's Secret Fundamentalists

TruthDig published a book review by Robert Christgau of Jeff Sharlet's The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

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