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Consumer Guide: April, 2024. Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2024 : A blatant genius given to unassuming meditations; one of rap's most eloquent; a bootleg (gone legit) documenting a definitive band becoming such; and musical intelligence vs. the world falling apart.
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 ...
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 ...
Robert Christgau Consumer Guide: June, 2024 An exploration of erotic and existential turmoil, five albums (across nine years) from Jon Langford, and two more from an East African supergroup.
May 22, 2019 · Fifteen years ago, the rock critic Robert Christgau published a survey-of-the-literature essay called “In Search of Jim Crow: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter,” in The Believer.
Jan 25, 2024 · The Rolling Stones have now been the world’s greatest rock and roll band for over half a century—60 years, starting with five classic albums released in the 20 months between April 1964 and December 1965.
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.
