Robert Christgau published a piece, The Big Lookback: The Grateful Dead: "The Dead Make It Real In Jersey City," Newsday, July 30, 1972 -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here.
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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 NewsThe Big Lookback: The Grateful Dead Robert Christgau published a piece, The Big Lookback: The Grateful Dead: "The Dead Make It Real In Jersey City," Newsday, July 30, 1972 -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-04-24] Consumer Guide: April, 2026 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2026: Reviews of Sky Smeed, Willie Nelson, Robyn, Allo Darlin', De La Soul, The Delines, Dorisburg, Gurf Morlix, Van Morrison, Bill Orcutt, Jefferson Ross, Twisted Teens, and Vaiano's Paisanos. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-04-08] Joe Boyd's Rhythm Revue Robert Christgau published a piece, Joe Boyd's Rhythm Revue: On Joe Boyd's reading (with film clips) at the Film Forum -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-04-03] Film Comment Robert Christgau published a piece, Film Comment: Notes from the premier of the documentary "The Last Critic" at SXSW -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-03-18] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section — Growing up pop, band dreams vs. critical practice, The Only Ones on record and in print, Yankee Hotel Mea Culpa, the Tallahatchie Bridge not taken, and sixteen live ones — in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-03-11] Consumer Guide: March, 2026 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: February, 2026: At the top: Aesop Rock, Buck 65, Masaka Kids Africana, and The Paranoid Style. Plus: The Cucumbers, Gogol Bordello, Madonna, Charli XCX, and Abdallah Oumbadougou's desert blues. Reviews of: Aesop Rock, Buck 65, The Cucumbers, Gogol Bordello, Madonna, Masaka Kids Africana, Abdallah Oumbadougou, Anderson .Paak, The Paranoid Style, Princess Nokia, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Sunny Sweeney, Charli XCX. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-03-07] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section — Some health notes, Bird: still lives, the live Dead, the A shelves explained, reissues not reevaluated, and some faves. — in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-02-18] Consumer Guide: February, 2026 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: February, 2026: One of the great interpretive singers of our epoch takes on Lou Reed, abstract and impressive amapiano, the most explicitly leftist album in far too long, and a reliable Nashvillian with 11 winners Reviews of: Thomas Anderson, Armand Hammer, Bad Bunny, Zach Bryan, Dry Cleaning, Al Green, Michael Hampton, Hüsker Dü, Nandipha808, Nanook, Grant Peeples, Lucinda Williams, Tommy Womack. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2026-02-11] FYI Robert Christgau sent the following to subscribers of his Substack newsletter:
[posted by Webmaster on 2026-01-25] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section — Favorite instruments, Xgau at the radar station, classical colleagues, Phish still fishy, heavy reading, and wanker's delight. — in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-12-19] Consumer Guide: December, 2025 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: December, 2025: Reviews of: Lily Allen, Luke Bell, Danny Brown, Close Readers, Geese, Hamell on Trial, Moby Grape, Thelonious Monk, Nakibembe Embaire Group (2), Smerz, Sudan Archives. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-12-10] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section — What's in a name, live vs. recorded, tuneful vs. melodic, Pulnoc at P.S. 122, a lost Clash cassette, and a half-century-plus of delightful rhetoric. — in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-11-26] The Big Lookback: Todd Snider Robert Christgau published a piece, The Big Lookback: Todd Snider: "Preaching Agnosticism (With Laugh Lines)," from "The Barnes & Noble Review," April 30, 2012 -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-11-17] Consumer Guide: November, 2025 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: November, 2025: Shameless beauty track after track, an inspirational Afropop surprise, mood pieces suitable for the despondent historical moment, and a country album that fights the blues with more blues. Reviews of: Big Thief, Doja Cat, Michael Hurley, JID, The Kasambwe Brothers, Gurf Morlix, Alick Nkhata, Saint Pierre, Amanda Shires, Todd Snider (2), Taylor Swift, Wednesday. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-11-12] At Home With Peggy Seeger Robert Christgau published a piece by Georgia Christgau, At Home With Peggy Seeger: From her first solo album in 1955 at 19 to her Last Farewell tour earlier this year at 90, Peggy Seeger has sung with effervescence, power, and a feminist edge. -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-11-05] A Compelling Document of Sheer Goodness Robert Christgau published a piece, A Compelling Document of Sheer Goodness: 'Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall' (2025) -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-10-22] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section — Let us praise first-rate collections of first-rate songs but let us skip the twenty-four albums awarded some variation of the E grade. Also: albums vs. songs, Mary J. Blige, Geese, and chansons. — in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-10-16] Consumer Guide: October, 2025 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: October, 2025: Nearly half an hour of covers that qualify as beautiful, a remarkably warm and rich love album, a perky bad-ass faces down this grim moment, and amorous vulnerability intensified by a croak. Reviews of: Bright Eyes, Sabrina Carpenter, CMAT, Bobby Conn, Margaret Glaspy, Hamell on Trial, Joseph Kamaru, Jens Lekman, Rhett Miller, Margo Price, Bill Scorzari, Water From Your Eyes, Billy Woods. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-10-08] The Big Lookback: Janis Joplin Robert Christgau and Carola Dibbell published a piece, The Big Lookback: Janis Joplin: An excerpt from Carola Dibbell's memoir "Young Me: Travels With an Old Self 1967-1970" -- as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Also archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-09-23] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section -- African American science fiction, Eno before and after rocking, where (or who) in the world is Stephen Malkmus, first musical loves, variants of the art-rock mindset, and listening without prejudice. -- in his Substack newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2025-09-17] More Information |
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