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Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.
Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2024 : A blatant genius given to unassuming meditations; one of rap's most eloquent; a bootleg (gone legit) documenting a definitive band becoming such; and musical intelligence vs. the world falling apart.
Biography. I began writing rock criticism for Esquire in 1967, was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1969 to 1972, and returned to the Voice in 1974 after two years as pop music critic at Newsday.
Feb 24, 2015 · Robert Christgau is ten years past retirement age and busy as hell. Still, not so busy that he can’t speak with a young reporter—though he isn’t above being a tad persnickety about it.
Jun 25, 2020 · Robert Christgau is 75 years old now and knowing that comes as a bit of shock to those of us who went through our college years reading him.
Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2023: Honed and loud pronouncements from a 67 year old, indelible copyrights from a 77 year old, some 58-year-old saxophone wisdom, and uniquely individualistic hip-hop from two born-in-the-'80s rappers. Reviews of: Gina Birch, Bktherula, R.A.P. Ferreira, The Hold Steady, JPEGMafia & Danny ...
Mar 1, 2015 · Christgau: Because it's symphonic bombast without the intelligence and complexity, although there's a lot of virtuosity. You know, what can I say — I'm 72 years old.
Oct 27, 2017 · This story is over 5 years old. Robert Christgau on a Songwriter Who Can Linger on the Word "Gerrymander" The Dean of American Rock Critics reviews records from Robt Sarazin Blake, Dylan...
Robert Thomas Christgau ( / ˈkrɪstɡaʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.
Feb 24, 2015 · The ending, as far as the plot goes, is already spoiled: Dibbell and Christgau are still married, and the daughter, Nina, they adopted from Honduras, is now 29 years old.
Without adducing my 55-year track record in these fraught matters, which is somewhat better than that of most rock critics', I'll offer a simple race-and-gender breakdown of the 2022 Dean's List: neatly if coincidentally, I've named 38 Black artists and 38 female artists, 16 of them both.
Jun 22, 2018 · June 22, 2018, 9:30am. Share. Tweet. The self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics," Robert Christgau was one of the pioneers of music criticism as we know it. He was the music editor at...
Music critic; Visiting Arts Professor, New York University; music critic and senior editor, The Village Voice (1974-2006). Author of Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man; Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno; and others.
Old Age. Click to read And It Don't Stop, by Robert Christgau, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
The punk-come-lately intensity of Rhett Miller's first three songs is so far from their silly old alt-country pigeonhole that when second songwriter Murry Hammond moseys to the mic to deliver the Marty-Robbins-come-even-later "You Were Born to Be in Battle" they could be a separate-and-unequal band.
May 12, 2001 · Christgau turns 60 next year. A strange age, some may consider, to be writing about popular music. Yet Christgau moves way beyond the rock/pop axis most music critics shelter behind.
Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: February, 2023: High IQ catchiness from Ireland, death defying songs from Australia, persuasive and heartbreaking outtakes from New York City, and some truth and uplift from London. Reviews of: Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, Carsie Blanton, Bo Burnham, CMAT, Dry Cleaning, Robert Forster, S.G ...
In the year Ciara grew up, Rihanna left the islands and Jill Scott explored the joy of sex, the twenty-six-year-old's third studio album envisions a hip-hop generation ready for its own...
Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for Esquire in its heyday and personifying the music beat at the Village Voice for over three decades.
The Consumer Guide database has graded 17916 albums from 7814 artists on 3541 labels, with 15857 reviews.
Consumer Guide: February, 2024. Eternal bebop, aesthetic force with brains, country soul from Newark, and hip-hop dreams with humanistic impulses. Plus: robot limbs, the aging alt-rock bohemia, hypnotic guitar minimalism, and more. Sorry, the article you requested is not yet available here.
Robert Christgau has earned his place as America's foremost rock critic by distilling enthusiastic nonstop listening into incisive, knowledgeable, sometimes hilarious judgments. Christgau's guide to the records of the 1980s, the first and only book to survey the decade's popular music, reviews and letter-grades some 3,000 albums.
