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And It Don't Stop on Substack Robert Christgau's newsletter And It Don't Stop appears three (or four) times a month on Substack. Subscribe here. Robert Christgau's Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 
Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that Christgau published last year, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on, among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics, as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly off-putting nickname, but one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why. --David Cantwell, The New Yorker NewsEndless Boogie Robert Christgau published a piece, She Wants to Know What Love Is, on Kim Stanley Robinson's novels. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also added an old piece, originally published in Film Comment in July-August, 2008, on a Neil Young documentary film: Deja Vu. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-05-27] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section, as part of his subscription newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-05-20] Consumer Guide: May, 2020 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: May, 2020, with 12 reviews. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-05-11] Little Richard Billboard has published Robert Christgau's Little Richard: Sexual Shaman and Embodiment of Rock 'n' Roll at Its Most Incendiary. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-05-11] Another Side of Another Side (Of Another Side?) Robert Christgau published a piece, Another Side of Another Side (Of Another Side?), on Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" -- with Joe Levy doing most of the heavy lifting. This is part of Christgau's subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-26] Endless Boogie Robert Christgau published a piece, Endless Boogie, on Charles Shaar Murray's 2000 biography, Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-22] Auriculum, Episode 3: Rob Sheffield Robert Christgau shared the second episode of his podcast, Auriculum, Episode 3: Rob Sheffield (Part 3), as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This is restricted to paid subscribers. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-17] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section, as part of his subscription newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-15] Auriculum, Episode 2: Rob Sheffield Robert Christgau shared the second episode of his podcast, Auriculum, Episode 2: Rob Sheffield (Part 2), as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This is restricted to paid subscribers. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-10] Consumer Guide: April, 2020 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2020, with 13 reviews, including several John Coltrane records. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-08] Auriculum, Episode 1 Robert Christgau shared the first episode of his podcast, Auriculum, Episode 1: Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield, as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-01] Another Girl, Same Planet Robert Christgau published a piece, Another Girl, Same Planet, on Carola Dibbell's post-pandemic novel, The Only Ones. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-25] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section, as part of his subscription newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-18] Many musics heal. This was designed for the job. Robert Christgau published a piece, Many musics heal, on the "traditional sufi healing music" of Oruç Güvenç & Tümata. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-17] Consumer Guide: March, 2020 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: March, 2020, with 14 reviews, including an old Duke Ellington set. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Back on March 3, Christgau also published My Thigh Hurts. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-11] And It Don't Stop Robert Christgau's latest piece on his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop, is Queen of Plainstyle, on Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia. Most of the posts from Robert Christgau's And It Don't Stop subscription newsletter are now archived on this website. Posts that are exclusive to subscribers, like the monthly Consumer Guides, are locked for eight months. Posts that were offered free are available now -- most are available here, with Xgau Sez in its usual place, as is the 2019 Dean's List. The Consumer Guide entries are not yet included in the database. They will probably be locked as well. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-25] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his Xgau Sez question & answer forum, as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-19] Ten Movies I Love Robert Christgau's latest piece on his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop, is Ten Movies I Love. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-17] Consumer Guide (February 2020) Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: February, 2020, with thirteen reviews, including an old Blue Lu Barker set. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-12] And It Don't Stop Robert Christgau published his Dean's List 2019 in his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This year's list runs to 76 albums. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-26] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient More Information |
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