Robert Christgau

The Big Lookback: Tom Verlaine robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-look…

Seeing longtime Mekon Jon Langford live in Manhattan in April set me on a research binge that may not be over yet, as the latest Consumer Guide proves. Thoughts? Info? robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…

In this month's Consumer Guide on Substack: three (count 'em, three) albums from a universalist, one from a Welsh beatmaker blessed with a silver tongue, the latest from our greatest female pop singer, and jazz’s greatest tenor player at 28. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…

Danyel Smith meets George Clinton at the March PopCon at USC, providing just the excuse I need to convert the Clinton profile-cum-think piece from my 1998 Harvard collection "Grown Up All Wrong" into this month's Big Lookback at And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-look…

Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, the-Beatles-and-the-Stones, and many less stellar musical names are among the topics addressed in the latest edition of And It Don't Stop on Substack. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-apr…

Postpunk lifers, a truly older African, fortysomethings hanging in there, structurally connubial alt-rockers, women who deserve better, and a younger woman who towers over the competition fill out the April Consumer Guide at And It Don't Stop on Substack. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…

Today in "Crritic!": Having missed this year's Pop Conference, I simulate a day of it by rounding up talks posted online by @rxgau, @polishedsolid, @NedRaggett, @matoswk75, @SotoAlfred, and @glenn_mcdonald. carlwilson.substack.com/p/sweeping-up-…

Several old faithfuls, two exceedingly original grown women of 28 and 35, two male singer-songwriters not in your recall memory, and the first positive Queen review I've ever written ain't all you find in this month's Consumer Guide at And It Don't Stop robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…

How does a fella review 17,000 albums? The cluttered truth behind the hours of listening and the neat grades. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/i-have-to-de…

It will always be a massive honor to receive an A grade from Robert Christgau in his Consumer Guide! Thanks to the Dean for his rave review of The Interrogator! If you aren't a subscriber to his substack, my highest recommendation is to remedy that. He's still the best we've got.

I swear I didn't plan the new Consumer Guide for Valentine's Day. It was a calendar accident. But that doesn't mean I don't love you or that Millie Jackson does. Jenny from Thebes, maybe. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…

A little later than I would have preferred, 84 albums it would be all too retro for me to call records constitute a 2023 Dean's List topped by a 20-year-old albeit chocked as well with veterans if only occasionally literal graybeards. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/deans-list-2…

No snappy answers in this month's Xgau Sez, from a few words about therapy to a little deep background on "Pazz & Jop." robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-nov…

A Navy veteran dominates the November Consumer Guide as DJ Shadow sounds good, Lil Wayne gives some away, a Dartmouth medical student goes indie, riot grrrl types from Australia and Indonesia make some noise, and that ain't all. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-gui…