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And It Don't Stop
- A Century in Four Hours and Forty Minutes -- Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs
- A Dot of Iowa Blue -- Art Cullen: Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper (Viking, 317 pp.)
- After the Flood -- Ned Sublette: The Year Before the Flood (2009, 452 pp.)
- After the Revolution -- C.A. Davids, How to Be a Revolutionary (2021, 296 pp.)
- All the Time in the World: The Living End in Peter Stampfel and Willie Nelson -- A lecture from the 2019 Museum of Pop Culture Conerence, which was themed around music, death, and afterlife
- Another Girl, Same Planet -- Carola Dibbell: The Only Ones (354 pp., 2015)
- Another Side of Another Side (Of Another Side?)
- Auriculum (Ep. 4): Xgau & Sheffield Trade Year-End Lists
- Auriculum (Ep. 5): Bob & Carola & The Art and Science of List Making
- Auriculum, Episode 1 -- Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield
- Auriculum, Episode 2 -- Rob Sheffield (Part 2)
- Auriculum, Episode 3 -- Rob Sheffield (Part 3)
- Avoiding Wet-Bulb 35C -- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (2020, 563 pp.)
- Combating the Sound of Whiteness -- Amanda Petrusich, 'Mickey Guyton Takes On the Overwhelming Whiteness of Country Music' (2021, 15 pp.); Geoff Mann, 'Why Does Country Music Sound White?: Race and the Voice of Nostalgia' (2008, 28 pp.)
- Continuing Education -- Jeannie Seely: Sixty-seven years of love lessons
- Dean's List: The 2010s -- The 25 best albums of the last 10 years
- Deconstructing Reconstruction -- Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (257 pp., 2006)
- Diplomatic Ties -- On the first rock critic Secretary of State
- Doing It and Doing It and Doing It Well -- Dale Cockrell, Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York 1840-1917 (2019, 270 pp.)
- Endless Boogie -- Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (2000, 505 pp.)
- Faster Miles an Hour Who Knows Where -- Joshua Clover, Roadrunner (119 pp., 2021)
- Favorite vs. Best vs. Whatever -- Ballots for Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs poll and some thoughts on precious dollops of pleasure
- Finding Refuge -- Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director), Flee (2021)
- Flag Still There -- Some thoughts on Jimi Hendrix, the national anthem, and the F-bomb
- Ghost Dance -- The Big Lookback: The struggle to make sense of how things felt--and sounded--0 years ago
- Heart of Darkness -- Jeff Sharlet: This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers (2008, 320 pp.)
- Hippy, Punk, Guitarist, Historian -- Lenny Kaye: Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll (496 pp., 2022)
- Honky Tonk, Parts 1-41 -- A 41-song playlist to mark 80 years.
- Information Is Your Friend -- Dawn Oberg
- It's a Start
- Just Enough Monkey Business -- Our Great National Parks, Sophie Todd (series producer), Barack Obama (executive producer, narrator)
- Life at 400 Heartbeats Per Minute -- Paul Reddish (writer-director); David Attenborough (narrator), Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers (2012)
- Like Pops Never Happened -- Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
- Lists on Lists on Lists -- Ballots for the third Rolling Stone inventory of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
- Little Records With Big Holes -- The Big Lookback: A 1971 piece on singles from Tommy James, Jean Knight and Freda Payne, the joys of AM radio and the dark forces of shlock-rock.
- Lock Him Up -- Jim DeRogatis: Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly (2019, 306 pp.)
- Love & Kisses -- Isabel Miller: Patience & Sarah (1969, 184pp.)
- Many musics heal. This was designed for the job.
- Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.
- My Thigh Hurts -- The 77 Year Old Rock Critic meets his 77-year-old body
- Oh? OK Then. -- A reissue of the liner notes to a reissue.
- Out of the Box -- Red-diaper baby gets the Attica documentary she deserves
- Playing With (and Burying) the Big Boys -- The Clash's London Calling at 40
- Quarantine Me to the Ball Game
- Queen of Plainstyle -- Willa Cather: My Antonia (1918, 272 pp.)
- Reports From the Front -- Evgeny Afineevsky, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (115 minutes, 2015); Sergey Loznitsa, Maïdan (130 minutes, 2014); Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land (300 pp., 2021)
- Root of All Evil -- Ned and Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast (2016, 754 pp)
- Say It, Sisters -- James Daley, Ed: Great Speeches by American Women (2008, 179 pp.)
- She Wants to Know What Love Is -- Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora (2015, 501 pages)
- Storytellers -- Liz Phair: Horror Stories (258 pp., 2019); Marc Ribot: Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist (216 pp., 2021); Jim Flannigan: Don the Burp and Other Stories (42 pp., 1980)
- Ten Movies I Love -- My contribution to an already fading Twitter game
- The Big Lookback: Bette Midler -- From The Village Voice, September, 1993: Bette Milder Sings . . . Everything
- The Big Lookback: Biz Markie -- In 1991, Biz sampled Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Alone Again (Naturally)' and changed hip-hop--though not in ways anyone intended
- The Big Lookback: Chuck D All Over the Map -- Greg Tate and Robert Christgau interview Chuck D
- The Big Lookback: Dakar Diary -- From MSN Music in 2010, a week in the capital of African pop
- The Big Lookback: Hillary Clinton -- From The Village Voice, October 11, 2016: 'Putting In Work for HRC'
- The Big Lookback: Joy of Cooking -- The 50th anniversary of Joy of Cooking's first-of-its-kind first album
- The Big Lookback: Loving Women and Duran Duran -- a Sept. 20, 2010 review of Rob Sheffield's Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.
- The Big Lookback: Neil Young -- From 1997, Wasted on the Young, a survey of a vast catalogue that has only grown since then.
- The Big Lookback: Rock 'N' Revolution -- Thoughts on John and Yoko, the MC5, People's Park and the difference between changes in style and structure, from 'The Village Voice,' July 3, 1969.
- The Big Lookback: Stevie Wonder -- From 1999, written for the program to the Kennedy Center Honors induction
- The Big Lookback: The Rolling Stones -- From Blender, a review of the Stones at Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Connecticut August 26, 2005
- The Big Lookback: The Rolling Stones -- In the 43 years since Some Girls, Dirty Work is the best album the Stones came up with. No, fuck you.
- The Big Lookback: The Three Roches Crack Wise -- From the Feb. 20, 1978, Village Voice: Carola Dibbell on the Roches live at Kenny's Castaways
- The Big Lookback: The Yankees Learn to Lose -- As a topsy-turvy, streaky season draws to a close (or does it?) some thoughts on this year's Yankees and the Yankees of 47 years ago
- The Book of Books, Rockcrit and Musicology Division -- Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (2021, 530 pp)
- The Definitive Guide to (What May Be) Pop's Definitive Year -- Michaelangelo Matos, Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year
- The Swashbuckler -- Dave Hickey: Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (2017, 207 pp.)
- There's Always Music in This Joint -- Rich Krueger
- They're Not Gonna Live Forever -- Selo i Ludy: Live And Unconquered
- Twentieth Century Low Life, Illuminated -- Luc Sante, Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2020, 328 pp.)
- Vote! It Ain't Illegal Yet!
- Zoology 101 -- The Zoo (Animal Planet series 2017-)
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