New reviews in the December 13, 2007 Rolling Stone:
- Mary J. Blige: Growing Pains ***(*)
- Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall ***(*)
- The Harlem Experiment ***(*)
- Pylon: Gyrate Plus ****
- Downtown 81 ***
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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 NewsRolling Stone (December 13, 2007) New reviews in the December 13, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-12-03] Consumer Guide (December 2007) New Consumer Guide for December 2007. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-12-01] Rolling Stone (November 29, 2007) New reviews in the November 29, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-11-23] Website Update Carola Dibbell's 1998 novella has been added, presented in five PDF files in order to preserve the typographic formatting: Some more Carola Dibbell articles have been added:
New NPR links added:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-11-09] Rolling Stone (November 15, 2007) New reviews in the November 15, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-11-09] Consumer Guide (November 2007) New Consumer Guide for November 2007. [posted by Webmaster on 2007-11-01] Rolling Stone (November 1, 2007) New reviews in the November 1, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-10-26] Rolling Stone (October 18, 2007) New reviews in the October 18, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-10-12] Consumer Guide (October 2007) New Consumer Guide for October 2007. [posted by Webmaster on 2007-10-01] Rolling Stone (October 4, 2007) New reviews in the October 4, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-28] Rolling Stone (September 20, 2007) New reviews in the September 20, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-08] Consumer Guide (September 2007) New Consumer Guide for September 2007. [posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-01] Rolling Stone (September 6, 2007) New reviews in the September 6, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-25] Rolling Stone (August 23, 2007) New reviews in the August 23, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-11] Website Update The following old Robert Christgau pieces have been added:
Some of these were grouped into a new section ("Newsprint") intended for some of Christgau's old newspaper work. The following old Carola Dibbell pieces have been added:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-10] Rolling Stone (August 9, 2007) New reviews in the August 9, 2007 Rolling Stone: [posted by Webmaster on 2007-07-30] Rolling Stone (July 12-26, 2007) The July 12-26, 2007 Rolling Stone is a special issue, "The Fortieth Anniversary," which takes a look back at 1967. No review section, but Robert Christgau and David Fricke collaborated on: [posted by Webmaster on 2007-07-03] Rolling Stone (June 28, 2007) New reviews in the June 28, 2007 Rolling Stone:
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