Change Log

Update: 2012-02-09

• Expert Witness columns: December 2011, January 2012, February 2012 (partial).
• Barnes & Noble Review pieces: Dark Night of the Quants, Dad Rock Makes a Stand [both stubs; still haven't done Dean's List].

Update: 2011-12-14

• Expert Witness columns: August 2011, September 2011, October 2011, November 2011, December 2011 (partial).
• Barnes & Noble Review pieces: Not Fade Away, Brag Like That, Pioneer Days.
• MSN Music pieces: Fountains of Wayne: Tender Behind the Tartness, Teddybears Live: Not So Cuddly The Roots: A Righteous 'undun' Preview.
• Pazz & Jop: 1975: It's Been a Soft year for Hard Rock, 1975 Dean's List.
• Old Consumer Guides from Creem: August 1972, September 1972, October 1972, November 1972, December 1972, June 1973, August 1973, December 1973, May 1974. Also added 19 missing CG entries.
• Other old articles: Beth Ann and Microbioticism (1965), Choice Bits From a "Sorry" Year.
• Added a considerable number of cross links from artists to articles.

Update: 2011-08-10

• Expert Witness columns: June 2011, July 2011, August 2011 (partial).
• Barnes & Noble Review pieces: Monster Anthems, Making Out Like Gangsters.
• MSN Music pieces: Tammy Faye Starlite: Channeling Nico, Tom Zé Live: An Elfin Triumph.
• Added "Google Search" box.
• Added artist-article links for NPR columns.
• Enhanced Consumer Guide Database Stats to report ungraded albums.

Update: 2011-05-28

• Expert Witness columns: Mar 2011, Apr 2011, May 2011.
• Barnes & Noble Review pieces: The Righteous Path; Sister Oh Sister; also missing piece: Personal Picks: Best of 2009.
• MSN Music pieces: Lucinda Williams: Faith Restored; TV on the Radio: Rocking Out at Radio City; A Tribute to Kate McGarrigle.
• NPR piece: Poly Styrene, Punk Pioneer, Dies at 53.
• Scattered corrections to old Consumer Guides and database.
• Changed NAJP Blog link to only pull out Christgau posts.

Update: 2011-03-08

• Expert Witness columns: Nov 2010, Dec 2010, Jan 2011, Feb 2011 Mar 2011 [partial, to Mar 4].
• Barnes & Noble Review pieces: Dancing on Her Own, Live Albums, 2010: Dean's List, Discovering Teranga, Estudando Tom Zé.
• MSN Music pieces: Miranda Lambert, Kings of Leon, Dakar Diary, Dakar Diary Part II.
• Previously unarchived Village Voice pieces: All This Useless Beauty, Can't Stop the Music, Disco Heat, Paint a Vulgar Picture, Young Rebels.
• Previously unarchived Blender pieces: Rolling Stones Live.
• Previously unarchived Newsday pieces: They're Grateful for the 'Dead', The Genius and Power of Elvis, Those Who Shared in Rock's Ascendancy Won (Alas), Rolling in Place, Maybe $10 Is Too High for the Beach, A Blues Festival With Some Charisma, A Duly Impressive 'Grease' Still Slips, The Boys Won't Leave That Girl Alone, A One-Man Music Machine Pursues the American Dream in Jamaica, It's Jamaica, Out of Africa and a Step After Reggae, Reggae Be the Rage?.
• Added NPR link for: Coal Miner's Daughter. Changed search URL to one that seems to work better (eliminates false positives).
• Changed get_artist.php to treat "Subjects for Future Research" more generally, as "Further Notes"; it has previously only been used for SFFR from the CG '90s book, but can now be used for all of the book endmatter lists, even "Meltdown."
• Collated and documented the 2007 Rhapsody CG Release, updating many CG entries. See file for details.
• Introduced a script to find EPs in the CG database. This has not been integrated into the CG page. It inspects the "type" field in the "album" database table. The default type value is "2" (for EP). One can test other values by explicitly specifying them by adding ?t=N to the URI, where N is the test value (1: reissue compilations, 3: 12-inch singles, 4: downloads, 6: download EPs).
• Created a "private corner" of the website for pieces written by Georgia Christgau. As this is unauthorized and unpublicized, you'll have to guess where it is.
• Initiated this Change Log.
• Didn't do: sort through all of the possible issues raised on the new Newsday pieces, including didn't merge capsule reviews; update url table and add appropriate alinks; get Forster interview from Christgau; get answers to numerous issues raised by Rhapsody CG merge; other stuff I can't even remember now.