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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 NewsExpert Witness: Robert Christgau Takes on Mitski's Disquieting Angst
New questions and answers were posted Tuesday, January 1: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2019-01-04] Lupe Fiasco, Meek Mill, Lil Wayne, and Vince Staples
New questions and answers were posted Tuesday, December 18: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-12-21] CupcakKe's Literotica and Leikeli47's Smokescreens
New questions and answers west will be posted on Tuesday, December 18: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-12-14] The Goon Sax's Humble Reflections
New questions and answers west posted on Tuesday, December 4: Xgau Sez. Events, interviews, and reviews of Robert Christgau's recent book, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017:
Note: We are currently experiencing a problem with accented characters stored in the Consumer Guide database being presented as garbage. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-12-07]
New questions and answers on Tuesday, December 4: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-11-30] L7's Feedback-Drenched, Feminist Aggro
New questions and answers last Tuesday: Xgau Sez. Also note that the website now has a RSS 2.0 feed. It is (for now anyway) updated manually as new articles and/or significant revisions are made to the website. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-11-23] Expert Witness: Some Inventive, Alternative Hip-Hop
New questions and answers will be published on Tuesday, November 20: Xgau Sez. Christgau's new book, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, was published October 26 by Duke University Press. Website was updated on Thursday, including all Expert Witness reviews from January to last week. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-11-16] Expert Witness: Pistol Annies' Sharp 'Interstate Gospel'
New questions and answers were published on November 6: Xgau Sez. Christgau's new book, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, was published October 26 by Duke University Press. Some recent reviews and discussion:
Christgau also wrote a new essay about the new book:
[posted by Webmaster on 2018-11-09] Expert Witness: Rich Krueger's Ambition and Paul Simon's Farewell
New questions and answers will be posted on Tuesday, November 6, before the polls open: Xgau Sez. Christgau's new book, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, was released last week (October 26) by Duke University Press. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-11-02] Expert Witness: A Tribute to Blue Lu Barker (and Blue Lu Herself)
New questions and answers were posted on Tuesday, October 23: Xgau Sez. Christgau's new book, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, was released today (October 26) by Duke University Press. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-10-26] Expert Witness: Riton and Kah-Lo's Unrap
[posted by Webmaster on 2018-10-19] Expert Witness: Ed Hamell's Brutal, Bastard-Bashing Fantasies
New questions and answers were posted on Tuesday, October 9: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-10-12] Expert Witness: On Noname's Poetic Breakthrough
[posted by Webmaster on 2018-09-28] Expert Witness: On Eminem
New questions and answers were posted on Tuesday, September 18: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-09-21] Expert Witness: Some Raggedy-Ass Rock and Some Tropical Fuck Storm
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[posted by Webmaster on 2018-09-14] Expert Witness: John Kruth's Broad Compass
New questions and answers were posted on Tuesday, September 4: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-09-07] Expert Witness: Hinds' Good-Hearted Chops
[posted by Webmaster on 2018-08-31] Xgau Sez New questions and answers on Tuesday, August 21: Xgau Sez. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-08-21] Expert Witness: Methodist Hospital's Goofy Apocalypse
Also: [posted by Webmaster on 2018-08-17] Expert Witness: Amanda Shires's Powers of Observation
The second batch of answers to Xgau Sez was posted on Tuesday, at the top of the usual page. [posted by Webmaster on 2018-08-10] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient More Information |
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