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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 NewsMSN Music: Expert Witness
First new consumer guide reviews since whenever, on Christgau's Expert Witness blog:
Also, some more on The Return of Consumer Guide. [posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-24] MSN Music: Expert Witness Blog
Robert Christgau has a new blog for MSN Music, called "Expert Witness." The general link to the blog is here. The first entry is an introduction: [posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-22] MSN Music: Kings of Leon
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-22] Rock & Roll &: Estudando Tom Zé
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review: There is also an earlier (October 7) piece on Luaka Bop's Tom Zé boxset, at MSN: [posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-18] MSN Music: CMA Music Awards
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-12] NPR: Of Montreal, No Age Two recent reviews on NPR's All Things Considered: [posted by Webmaster on 2010-11-02] Rock & Roll &: Ain't That a Shame
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-09-16] Rock & Roll &: Maturity for Modern Kids
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-08-11] MSN Music
Christgau writes: "Linked below find the second dispatch in my unexpected new role as NYC dance music reporter for MSN Music. If I stumble onto another great show, there may be a third. The main subject is Swedish ex-teenqueen Robyn." [posted by Webmaster on 2010-08-10] MSN Music
With the Consumer Guide discontinued, Christgau will continue to write occasional Music News items for MSN Music: [posted by Webmaster on 2010-08-02] NPR: Tokyo Police Club, Macy Gray
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-07-29] Rock & Roll &: Illygirl Steppin Up
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-07-12] Consumer Guide (July 2010) New Consumer Guide for July 2010. Featured albums:
Honorable Mentions: Laurie Anderson, African Pearls: Sénégal -- Echo Musical, John Prine, The Soft Pack, Salif Keita, Uffie; Eccentric Breaks & Beats, A.C. Newman, Erykah Badu, Blk Jks, Sweet Talks, Mates of State; Mimicking Birds, Deer Tick, Youssou N'Dour, Jason Collett, Renée Fleming, Soft Machine, Devin the Dude, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Raise Hope for Congo, The New Pornographers, Preservation. Choice Cuts: Michael Jackson, Those Darlins, Josh Ritter, The Herbaliser, Ozomatli, Bettye LaVette, Screaming Females. More Duds: Animal Collective, Toni Braxton, Jackson Browne/David Lindley/El Vivo Con Tino, Karen Elson, Alec Ounsworth, Tribute to a Reggae Legend. [posted by Webmaster on 2010-07-01] Rock & Roll &: Who Knows It Feels It
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-06-11] Consumer Guide (June 2010) New Consumer Guide for June 2010. Featured albums:
Honorable Mentions: The Hold Steady, Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen, Kate Nash, Fishtank Ensemble, Issa Juma and Super Wanyika Stars, The Apples in Stereo, Egypt Noir: Nubian Soul Treasures, Ryan Leslie; The Fall, Robin Thicke, Lagos Disco Inferno, Tony Allen, This Moment in Black History, African Pearls: Côte d'Ivoire: West African Crossroads, Timbila, Sierre Leone's Refugee All Stars, Mean Jeans; Eric Bibb, Hendy Odem, Ton3x, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, Ryan Leslie, Strange Boys, Etran Finatawa. Choice Cuts: Fefe Dobson, Court Yard Hounds, Mayer Hawthorne, NOFX. More Duds: Cobie Caillat, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Gallows, Lady Antebellum, Shelby Lynne, Ky-Mani Marley, Pissed Jeans, Trey Songz, Carrie Underwood. [posted by Webmaster on 2010-06-01] Rock & Roll &: Pops as Pop
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-05-14] Consumer Guide (May 2010) New Consumer Guide for May 2010. Featured albums:
Honorable Mentions: Gogol Bordello, Hot Chip, Drive-By Truckers, Texas Tornados, Jaguar Love, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Holmes Brothers, Danny Barnes; Bela Fleck, Broken Bells, Lyle Lovett, Drakkar Sauna, James Hand, Willie Nelson; Peter Karp & Sue Foley, Easton Corbin, St. Vincent, The Reverend Horton Heat, 7L & Esoteric, Beach House. Choice Cuts: Gorillaz, Flight of the Conchords, Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova, She & Him. More Duds: Bobby Bare Jr., Built to Spill, Jakob Dylan, The Low Anthem, Meth Ghost and Rae, Miike Snow, Rain Machie, 7L & Esoteric, Blake Shelton. [posted by Webmaster on 2010-05-01] Consumer Guide (April 2010) New Consumer Guide for April 2010. Featured albums:
Honorable Mentions: The Da Vincis, Project Ahimsa Presents Global Lingo, Los Campesinos!, Bettie Serveert, MC Paul Barman; Wetdog, Röyksopp, Donwill, Kid Cudi, Dr. Dooom, Roberto Rodriguez, Lil Wayne, Kleenex LiLiPUT; Gucci Mane, Felt, Gil Scott-Heron, Souls of Mischief, Abraham Inc., Snoop Dogg Presents the West Coast Blueprint, Cock Lorge Band, Ludacris. Choice Cuts: Peter Gabriel, Masha Qrella, Young Money, Lil Wayne. More Duds: Dap C & Lil Wayne, Dead Man's Bones, Dum Dum Girls, Fabolous, Freddie Gibbs, Hopsin, The Knife, Kool Keith, Snoop Dogg. [posted by Webmaster on 2010-04-01] Rock & Roll &: The Triumph of the Id
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2010-03-10] Consumer Guide (March 2010) New Consumer Guide for March 2010. Featured albums:
Honorable Mentions: Jon Hassell, The Magnetic Fields, Whiskey in the Jar, Mary J. Blige, V.V. Brown, Fuck Buttons, Annie, BalkanBeats, Clem Snide, Hot Club de Norvege, Jon Hassell, DJ/Rupture & Matt Shadetek, Queen Ifrica, Sade, Nneka, Blk Jks, Four Tet, Fool's Gold Choice Cuts: Burkina Electric, Sister Fa, Ke$ha, Discovery, Florence + the Machine More Duds: Blk Jks, The Horrors, Leona Lewis, Matisyahu, Neon Indian [posted by Webmaster on 2010-03-01] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient More Information |
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