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Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: May, 2024: Three (count 'em, three) albums from a universalist, one from a Welsh beatmaker blessed with a silver tongue, the latest from our greatest female pop singer, and jazz's greatest tenor player at 28. Reviews of: Africatown, AL; Beyoncé; The Handcuffs; MIKE/Wiki/The Alchemist; Pylon ...
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as ...
Consumer Guide. The Consumer Guide database has graded 17916 albums from 7814 artists on 3541 labels, with 15857 reviews.
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 ...
A Lifelong Southern Rock Opera. An exploration of erotic and existential turmoil, five albums (across nine years) from Jon Langford, and two more from an East African supergroup. Plus….
Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. 13K+ subscribers. Subscribe. And It Don't Stop. By Robert Christgau. Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics.
Mar 1, 2015 · If he found your music bloated or tiresome, Robert Christgau brandished the most feared, loathed pen in the chronicles of rock 'n' roll.
Mar 6, 2015 · The so-called "Dean of Rock Critics" talks about the first time he knew he wanted to write about music, and why pop music is still important. Robert Christgau is considered the "Dean of...
Mar 14, 2024 · Robert Christgau's paper on his music library and archives from the recent PopCon at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles
Robert Christgau on Aretha, the Genius Behind a Voice Unlike Any Other Aretha Franklin defined soul music and the nooks and crannies of her power were as impressive as her peaks...
