Robert Christgau
Rock Critic at Freelance
Writer at And It Don't Stop
Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at https://t.co/QivzAO7E0q. Is It Still Good to Ya? & Book Reports from @DukePress
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1 week ago |
robertchristgau.substack.com | Robert Christgau
Hi Bob, I wonder what some of your essential pre-internet reference works were. Back before Google, what books or resources did you keep around and refer to regularly as you wrote the Consumer Guide or long-form pieces—whether for genre history, artist catalog, music theory/terminology, chart information, or anything else? — Jay Thompson, SeattleJoel Whitburn’s guides to the Billboard charts have always been valuable.
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1 week ago |
robertchristgau.substack.com | Robert Christgau
MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband Records) How about that—the wise-ass Brown undergrad who took up hip-hop a quarter century ago just so he could rhyme “hunter-gatherer” with “cunter-latherer” and “Super Bowl” with “pooper hole” has just turned 50.
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3 weeks ago |
robertchristgau.substack.com | Robert Christgau
I’ll begin contextualizing this Big Lookback by explaining a headline that few humans under age 50 are likely to understand.
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4 weeks ago |
robertchristgau.substack.com | Robert Christgau
For starters, let’s hear it for Ahmir Thompson, the drummer, bandleader, filmmaker, music historian, memoirist, Jimmy Fallon major domo, did I mention filmmaker, and blurber of Is It Still Good to Ya? better known as Questlove. Without Questlove, I would not be sitting here at midnight reflecting on the great lost genius and early Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sly Stone, government name Sylvester Stewart.
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1 month ago |
robertchristgau.substack.com | Robert Christgau
Now that we are on the brink of war with Canada, I share with you my Canad8:Kate & Anna McGarrigleRushNeil YoungJoni MitchellLeonard CohenSarah SleanLoreena McKennittArcade FireSafe assumption that you never warmed up to Rush—even after Geddy’s register dropped an octave or two—but I argue that they had a great run from Hemispheres to Signals, with some listenable albums here-and-there otherwise.
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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? https://t.co/IPgedKKW9C https://t.co/D77A1Pfhf8
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. https://t.co/HHcnnzbQyG https://t.co/d788qZktHV
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