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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 NewsBlender (August 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-07-21] Consumer Guide (July 2008) New Consumer Guide for July 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-07-01] Blender (July 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-06-21] Consumer Guide (June 2008) New Consumer Guide for June 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-06-01] Blender (June 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-05-24] Consumer Guide (May 2008) New Consumer Guide for May 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-05-01] Blender (May 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-04-24] Consumer Guide: World Music Edition MSN Music published a special Consumer Guide: World Music Edition:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-04-15] Consumer Guide (April 2008) New Consumer Guide for April 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-04-01] Blender (April 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-03-15] Blogging Robert Christgau is now blogging at ARTicles, blogsite of the National Arts Journalism Program, where he's vice chairman. Other bloggers so far include the other board members and NAJP members Sasha Anawalt, Jeff Weinstein, Patti Hartigan, Glen Lovell, and Donald Munro. Pretty smart and informative stuff, recommended to anyone interested in arts coverage in general. One way or another, all five of Christgau's posts as of March 7 have been about music journalism, but often in a fairly broad way. They include his typo-ridden take on this year's Idolator and Pazz & Jop polls. The link: http://www.najp.org/articles/. [posted by Robert Christgau on 2008-03-10] Consumer Guide (March 2008) New Consumer Guide for March 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-03-01] Blender (March 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-02-02] Moving On On January 1, I left my Contributing Editor gig at Rolling Stone to become a Senior Critic at Blender. My friend and now-colleague Jon Dolan, who was a Senior Critic before I was, refers to me as the Junior Senior Critic. I am very happy about this change. One thing it means is that I no longer have to wait to Consumer Guide records I review for Blender--Stone mandated a four-month lag. Of course, sometimes I'll wait anyway, just to make sure I have something new to say. [posted by Robert Christgau on 2008-02-02] Consumer Guide (February 2008) New Consumer Guide for February 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-02-01] Website Update New pieces include the 2007 Dean's List. We've continued to keep track of the top 40 results from the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll, but Robert Christgau is no longer associated with the poll, and there is no year-end essay. New NPR links added:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-01-28] Rolling Stone (February 7, 2008) New reviews in the February 7, 2008 Rolling Stone: [posted by Webmaster on 2007-01-22] Rolling Stone (January 24, 2008) New reviews in the January 24, 2008 Rolling Stone: [posted by Webmaster on 2007-01-07] Consumer Guide (January 2008) New Consumer Guide for January 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-01-01] Rolling Stone (December 27, 2007-January 10, 2008) Special double issue of Rolling Stone, dated December 27, 2007-January 10,2008, billed as "Yearbook 2007." No review section, although Robert Christgau contributed to "50 Top Albums of the Year" and wrote a sidebar listing "Personal Favorites":
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