Music Essays

• '1999' to Infinity: Robert Christgau Remembers Prince
• 'The Love Chimes,' 'Better Off Dead,' All Their Nonhits!
• A Little Night Music II: Ain't Got No Home
• A Short and Happy History of Rock
• A Togetherness Kind of Thing: 2 Black 2 Strong
• A Tribute to Kate McGarrigle
• Africanist Abomination: Homophobia as a Business
• Africanist Scholar, Africanist Saint
• Afropop on Stage
• Afternoon of the Roar: Lollapalooza 1995
• Agitrock: Steve Van Zandt
• Ain't Illegal Yet
• Al Green
• Al Green
• Alice's New Show: Alice Cooper
• Anatomy of a Love Festival
• Aretha, the Genius Behind a Voice Unlike Any Other
• Artistic Statement of the Year: Nirvana
• Avant-Punk: A Cult Exlodes . . . and a Movement Is Born
• B.E.: A Dozen Moments in the Prehistory of Rock and Roll
• Ban the Box Says: Don't Be Ridiculous!
• Beach Boys at Summer End
• Best of Blondie
• Big Country: What Garth Brooks, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, and Barney Have in Common
• Chaos Theory
• Chuck Berry
• Chuck D All Over the Map
• Classic Rock
• Cloud Nothings: Touched by Grace
• Creative Censorship
• Cruising for a Comparison: Harry Connick Jr.
• Dakar Diary Part II: Journey to the Capital of African Pop
• Dakar Diary: Journey to the Capital of African Pop
• Dandy Act
• Disc-Combobulation: CD Storage
• Do the Do: Afrika Bambaataa
• Doomed to Repeat It: Jesse Green, Meet Sidney Zion
• Double Fantasy: The Ballad of John and Yoko
• Dr. Hook's Revenge
• Dr. John in Brooklyn: Bringing Gumbo to the Apple
• Dramarama: Disillusioned Already
• Either And: Frank Sinatra
• Either And: Frank Sinatra 1915-1998
• Elton John
• Elvis Costello and the Roots
• Familiar and Fabulous: Aretha Franklin
• Federal Filth: Jelly Roll Morton
• Fountains of Wayne: Tender Behind the Tartness
• Four Dates With the Spice Girls
• Frank Sinatra 1915-1998
• Free Geronimo Pratt
• George Jones: An All-American Genius
• God After Midnight: Youssou N'Dour, Oumou Sangare
• Going for a Song
• Hard Again: Ice Cube
• How to Beat the Law of Averages
• Human Jukebox
• I Dreamed I Saw Woody Guthrie Last Night: Billy Bragg & Wilco
• Ice-T Blinks
• Idjit Galoot: Mojo Nixon
• In Memoriam: James Brown
• In Search of Jim Crow: Minstrelsy
• It's Alive! The Ramones Prove Too Tough to Die at the Queens Museum
• Jesus Saves: D'Angelo
• Jimi Hendrix's 'Star Spangled Banner' is the anthem we need in the age of Trump
• John Lennon, 1940-1980
• Kate Nash
• Kings of Leon: Fighting for the Right to Rule Arenas
• Laululava Dreams
• Leonard Cohen
• Let's Get Busy in Hawaiaan: A Hundred Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes
• Loudon Wainwright III Live: Family Affairs
• Louis Armstrong House Museum
• Lucinda Williams: Faith Restored
• Maximized Modesty: Gregory Abbott
• Meeting of the Moguls: Original Music's Big Score
• Men Without Women: The Monsters of Folk
• Milan Hlavsa 1951-2001
• Miranda Lambert: Beyond Nashville
• Mr. Tipper
• Never That Simple: Stevie Wonder
• New Radicals
• New Vistas of Frustration: PJ Harvey
• New Wonderland: John Mayer Trio
• No Gimcracks: Tounkara Takes It to the Stage
• No Hoovering: Fluffy
• No Nuthin
• No Underpants: OutKast
• Not Dead Yet: Bob Dylan
• Ooh, That Sound: The Backstreet Boys
• Ornette Coleman in Prospect Park
• Our Man, the Sophisticate: Robert Christgau Remembers Leonard Cohen
• Out of Town Critics: At the Rat
• PJ Harvey: Back With a Bang After Three Quiet Years
• Parole for Mbuli
• Pass the Mic: Amy Rigby
• Pazz and Jop Diary: Eight Nights a Week
• Pink Floyd Fills an Arena
• Poly Styrene, Punk Pioneer, Dies at 53
• Popular Music
• Pussy Riot
• Rah! Rah! Sis-Boom-Bah! The Secret Relationship Between College Rock and the Communist Party
• Random Notes: Public Image Ltd.
• Ray Charles 1930-2004
• Reading With Guitar: Jen Trynin
• Remembering Rai & Rock Troublemaker Rachid Taha
• Respect Yourself: Kendrick Lamar
• Robert Christgau Remembers Six Ways 70s Bowie Changed Culture Forever
• Robert Christgau's New York
• Robert Forster
• Robert Palmer 1945-1997
• Robyn: Dancing Into Rock
• Rock & Roll Quarterly: Fall 1990
• Rock Lyrics Are Poetry (Maybe)
• Rock Theater
• Rockabilly Men
• Saint Etienne at Webster Hall
• Sashaying in Your Head: Henry Threadgill
• Secular Music (2)
• Shining Some Glory: Liz Phair
• Shock Treatment: Sonic Youth
• Sid Vicious, 1957-1979
• Singing Along With Bruce
• Singing the White Suburban Blues: Elliott Murphy
• Some Holy Modal Rounders: Stampfel & Weber
• Sonic Elders: Sonic Youth
• Split Decision: M.I.A.'s Hard Festival Trial
• Staff Benda Bilili Stand Up, and Out, on Their First U.S. Tour
• Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954-1990
• Stranger Songs
• Sync or Swim: 'N Sync
• TV on the Radio: Rocking Out at Radio City
• Tammy Faye Starlite: Channeling Nico
• Tear the Sky Off the Mother: 'N Sync
• Teddybears Live: Not So Cuddly
• The Allman Brothers
• The Best A&R Person on Any Major Label
• The Dionysus Theory
• The Genius at Work: Ray Charles, A Critical Discography
• The Music We Missed in 2016
• The New Bohemians
• The Publisher as Fan
• The Race Factor
• The Rolling Stones
• The Rolling Stones
• The Roots: A Righteous Live 'undun' Preview
• The Shit Storm: Public Enemy
• The Slim Shady Essay
• The World Is His Boudoir: Prince
• Their Time: Imperial Teen
• Things You Didn't Know About Madonna's Book Party
• This Will Be Our Year: Future Soundtrack for America
• Toesucker Blues: Lou Reed
• Tom Zé Live: An Elfin Triumph
• Too Sweet to Die: David Johansen
• Toronto Rock & Roll Revival 1969
• Uh-Uh-Bop: Hanson
• Uncontainable, Uncontrollable, Incomprehensible: Eminem
• Unnaturals: The Coasters With No Strings Attached
• Weird Science
• West Nkosi
• What Eminem Means--and Doesn't
• Who's Fucking Who?: Public Enemy Meets Madonna & Lenny
• Why Do You Think They Call It Afrocentrism: KRS-One in Transition
• Wild Flag: Indie Vets' Triumphant Second Act
• Will Sing for Money
• Winning Ugly: The Rolling Stones' Dirty Work
• Women's Work
• Wussy: Battle Cries & Butterflies
• Yes He Can Can: Lee Dorsey
• You Gotta All Jump: Les Ballets Africains
• Zé Theory: A Brazilian Original