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Change Log
Update: 2015-08-21
- Long-awaited database update includes all CGs published at Cuepoint/Medium
(ended May 29, 2015). Stubs are provided for first two weeks of Expert Witness
at Noisey.
- Rolls up whatever new or rediscovered pieces have appeared since the last
update. (I don't have a list, but I don't think there's been much.)
- Added stubs for records in Dean's Lists not in database.
- Changed stylesheet for Carola Dibbell's
corner, to make it more consistent with her
proper website.
- Added "Venues" section to menu. This allows you (not to mention me) to
go directly to indexes on other websites which publish Christgau's work
(currently just Noisey; BN Review and NPR could be added if they become
more active).
- Fixed some confusion with the menu Twitter button.
- Note: Although there had been no formal update since October 2014,
a number of articles and pages had been uploaded individually -- e.g.,
the book page for
Going Into the City (which now has a Table
of Contents and some more recent review links).
- The news feed now has links for "Most Recent," "More Recent," and
"More Ancient" -- terms I hope are self-explanatory. (No easy way to
jump directly to "Most Ancient," unless you just plug an "?sk=N" onto
the URI, where N is currently 360 -- the notices go back to 2006.)
The chunksize is still hardwired at 20.
Update: 2014-10-03
Update: 2014-02-12
- Expert Witness columns:
June 2013,
July 2013,
August 2013,
September 2013.
- Non-capsule review posts broken out from Expert Witness:
Rob Sheffield: Turn Around Bright Eyes,
Stanley Crouch: Kansas City Lightning.
- MSN Music pieces:
Elvis Costello and the Roots Pump It Up,
Afropop on Stage.
- Barnes & Noble Review pieces:
Tell All,
No Hitting,
The Cynic and the Bloke,
Unruly Reading,
The Consensus Has Consequences,
2013: Dean's List.
- Billboard:
George Jones: All American Genius.
Dissent:
Remembering Marshall Berman.
- Rolling Stone:
The Lost World of Llewyn Davis.
- Old articles:
Practical, Winsome Approach [Fusion '71],
Play the Philistine [Fusion '71],
'71-In Brief [Fusion '72],
Tokyo Story [Fusion '72],
Play It Again Sam [Fusion '72],
Louis Malle [Fusion '73],
What Kind of a Best Rock and Roll Band in the World Is This?.
- Added Christgau's ballots for the Jazz & Pop [not sic] polls for
1968,
1969, and
1970.
- Rewrote the lists page called "Subjects for Further Research" as
Further Notes, since the list it
generates from the database isn't limited to SFFR, and there's no easy
way to split it into multiple listings since they overload the same
database table column. (Actually, we could do this with artist-associative
lists, but not right now.)
- Commented out "Expert Witness" navigation link.
Update: 2013-06-22
- Expert Witness columns:
December 2012,
January 2013,
February 2013,
March 2013,
April 2013,
May 2013,
June 2013.
- Barnes & Noble Review pieces:
May the Consensus Have Consequences,
The Dean's List 2012,
They Don't Want to Talk About It,
Richard Hell: The Thrill-Seeking Years,
Voices From a Desert War,
Give the Drummer Some.
- MSN Music pieces:
Respect Yourself: Kendrick Lamar's Standing-Room Only Roseland Show,
The Allman Brothers; Shining at the Beacon,
Kate Nash at the Bowery Ballroom: Trading Pop for Punk,
Pussy Riot: Fear, Freedom and Punk Art in Putin's Russia,
Louis Armstrong House Museum.
- Fixed some broken links on
Grown Up All Wrong book page.
Update: 2012-12-28
- Expert Witness columns:
July 2012,
August 2012,
September 2012,
October 2012,
November 2012,
December 2012.
Added ACN to
Dec. 27, 1983 CG.
- Barnes & Noble Review pieces:
Darkest America,
Derring-Do Scraping By,
The Geek Who Came In From the Cold,
Who's That? Brooown!.
- MSN Music pieces:
Singing Along With Bruce,
Staff Benda Bilili Stand Up, and Out,
Leonard Cohen.
- Non-CG posts that originally appeared in Expert Witness:
Saint Etienne at Webster Hall,
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen,
The John Lennon Letters.
Update: 2012-07-15
Update: 2012-05-06
Update: 2012-02-09
Update: 2011-12-14
- Expert Witness columns:
August 2011,
September 2011,
October 2011,
November 2011,
December 2011 (partial).
- Barnes & Noble Review pieces:
Not Fade Away,
Brag Like That,
Pioneer Days.
- MSN Music pieces:
Fountains of Wayne: Tender Behind the Tartness,
Teddybears Live: Not So Cuddly
The Roots: A Righteous 'undun' Preview.
- Pazz & Jop:
1975: It's Been a Soft year for Hard Rock,
1975 Dean's List.
- Old Consumer Guides from Creem:
August 1972,
September 1972,
October 1972,
November 1972,
December 1972,
June 1973,
August 1973,
December 1973,
May 1974.
Also added 19 missing CG entries.
- Other old articles:
Beth Ann and Microbioticism (1965),
Choice Bits From a "Sorry" Year.
- Added a considerable number of cross links from artists to articles.
Update: 2011-08-10
Update: 2011-05-28
Update: 2011-03-08
- Expert Witness columns:
Nov 2010,
Dec 2010,
Jan 2011,
Feb 2011
Mar 2011 [partial, to Mar 4].
- Barnes & Noble Review pieces:
Dancing on Her Own,
Live Albums,
2010: Dean's List,
Discovering Teranga,
Estudando Tom Zé.
- MSN Music pieces:
Miranda Lambert,
Kings of Leon,
Dakar Diary,
Dakar Diary Part II.
- Previously unarchived Village Voice pieces:
All This Useless Beauty,
Can't Stop the Music,
Disco Heat,
Paint a Vulgar Picture,
Young Rebels.
- Previously unarchived Blender pieces:
Rolling Stones Live.
- Previously unarchived Newsday pieces:
They're Grateful for the 'Dead',
The Genius and Power of Elvis,
Those Who Shared in Rock's Ascendancy Won (Alas),
Rolling in Place,
Maybe $10 Is Too High for the Beach,
A Blues Festival With Some Charisma,
A Duly Impressive 'Grease' Still Slips,
The Boys Won't Leave That Girl Alone,
A One-Man Music Machine Pursues the American Dream in Jamaica,
It's Jamaica, Out of Africa and a Step After Reggae,
Reggae Be the Rage?.
- Added NPR link for: Coal Miner's Daughter. Changed search URL
to one that seems to work better (eliminates false positives).
- Changed get_artist.php to treat "Subjects for Future Research" more
generally, as "Further Notes"; it has previously only been used for SFFR
from the CG '90s book, but can now be used for all of the book endmatter
lists, even "Meltdown."
- Collated and documented the 2007
Rhapsody CG Release, updating many CG entries. See file for details.
- Introduced a
script to find EPs in the CG database. This
has not been integrated into the CG page. It inspects
the "type" field in the "album" database table. The default type value is
"2" (for EP). One can test other values by explicitly specifying them by
adding
?t=N to the URI, where N
is the test value (1: reissue compilations, 3: 12-inch singles, 4: downloads,
6: download EPs).
- Created a "private corner" of the website for pieces written by
Georgia Christgau. As this is unauthorized and unpublicized, you'll
have to guess where it is.
- Initiated this Change Log.
- Didn't do: sort through all of the possible issues raised on the new
Newsday pieces, including didn't merge capsule reviews; update url table
and add appropriate alinks; get Forster interview from Christgau; get
answers to numerous issues raised by Rhapsody CG merge; other stuff I
can't even remember now.
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