2016
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2 days ago · An interview with veteran music critic Robert Christgau, formerly of The Village Voice, goes some way in backing this view when, in discussing Wonder, he reveals a blanket dislike of gospel music.
2 days ago · But by the time of this new novel she’s 66 and leading a rather different life—her alcoholism under control, her her oldest and most successful daughter Nicola paired off with a much better man than Charlo, and her older son John Paul, once a heroin addict, now sober, though her favorite son Jack, now teaching college in Chicago, keeps his ...
3 days ago · One supporter of this conception, Robert Christgau, points out disapprovingly—or at least ironically—in late 1967 that the word “artistic” was constantly being used in the many positive reviews of Sergeant Pepper (Christgau, 2000a: 42).
5 days ago · Even the eminent Village Voice critic Robert Christgau got on the good foot, characterising the band as “New Age fuck fiends” and citing Scar Tissue and Purple Stain as personal highlights. “Because we were starting afresh, it was like being back at album number one again,” said Kiedis.
2 days ago · Roddy Doyle, The Women Behind the Door. This was originally published as free content, in Robert Christgau's And It Don't Stop newsletter. You can have Christgau's posts delivered to your mailbox if you subscribe.
1 day ago · Obviously, the man himself would have told you that he was no Enrico Caruso, nor even a Johnny Cash; but I remember being shocked and confused in my teens when I opened up my copy of Christgau’s Record Guide and read Robert Christgau’s assessment of Kristofferson’s singing on his debut album: He’s the worst singer I’ve ever heard.
21 hours ago · Odyssey ‘s opening track “Dawn,” which features Esperanza Spalding on vocals and the band in its most relaxed form, features strings that feel very late period 4hero-ish—referencing another British group that looped jazz up with drum and bass. Garcia is offering us a new-yet-familiar color wheel, shimmering with bright emotion.
