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And It Don't Stop on Substack Robert Christgau's newsletter And It Don't Stop appears three (or four) times a month on Substack. Subscribe here. Robert Christgau's Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 
Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that Christgau published last year, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on, among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics, as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly off-putting nickname, but one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why. --David Cantwell, The New Yorker NewsAuriculum, Episode 2: Rob Sheffield Robert Christgau shared the second episode of his podcast, Auriculum, Episode 2: Rob Sheffield (Part 2), as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This is restricted to paid subscribers. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-10] Consumer Guide: April, 2020 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2020, with 13 reviews, including several John Coltrane records. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-08] Auriculum, Episode 1 Robert Christgau shared the first episode of his podcast, Auriculum, Episode 1: Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield, as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-04-01] Another Girl, Same Planet Robert Christgau published a piece, Another Girl, Same Planet, on Carola Dibbell's post-pandemic novel, The Only Ones. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-25] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his monthly Xgau Sez q&a section, as part of his subscription newsletter And It Don't Stop. Like all of Xgau Sez, this is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-18] Many musics heal. This was designed for the job. Robert Christgau published a piece, Many musics heal, on the "traditional sufi healing music" of Oruç Güvenç & Tümata. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-17] Consumer Guide: March, 2020 Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: March, 2020, with 14 reviews, including an old Duke Ellington set. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. Back on March 3, Christgau also published My Thigh Hurts. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-03-11] And It Don't Stop Robert Christgau's latest piece on his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop, is Queen of Plainstyle, on Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia. Most of the posts from Robert Christgau's And It Don't Stop subscription newsletter are now archived on this website. Posts that are exclusive to subscribers, like the monthly Consumer Guides, are locked for eight months. Posts that were offered free are available now -- most are available here, with Xgau Sez in its usual place, as is the 2019 Dean's List. The Consumer Guide entries are not yet included in the database. They will probably be locked as well. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-25] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his Xgau Sez question & answer forum, as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-19] Ten Movies I Love Robert Christgau's latest piece on his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop, is Ten Movies I Love. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-17] Consumer Guide (February 2020) Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: February, 2020, with thirteen reviews, including an old Blue Lu Barker set. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-02-12] And It Don't Stop Robert Christgau published his Dean's List 2019 in his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This year's list runs to 76 albums. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-26] And It Don't Stop Robert Christgau published a review of James Daley, Ed: Great Speeches by American Women, Say It, Sisters, in his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-22] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his Xgau Sez question & answer forum, as part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-15] Consumer Guide Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: January, 2020, with thirteen reviews, including an old Otis Spann. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-08] And It Don't Stop Recent post on Robert Christgau's And It Don't Stop subscription newsletter:
Also look for Christgau's interview by Ted Panken: Still Good to Him: Robert Christgau on a Life of Writing about Listening. [posted by Webmaster on 2020-01-05] And It Don't Stop Several recent posts on Robert Christgau's And It Don't Stop subscription newsletter:
[posted by Webmaster on 2019-12-23] Consumer Guide Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: December, 2019, with fourteen reviews, including an old Armstrong-Ellington date. This is part of his subscription newsletter, And It Don't Stop. [posted by Webmaster on 2019-12-11] The Swashbuckler Robert Christgau has added a public post to his And It Don't Stop subscription newsletter: The Swashbuckler, on Dave Hickey's 2017 book Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy. [posted by Webmaster on 2019-11-27] Xgau Sez Robert Christgau published his now-monthly Xgau Sez q&a section. This is a free (public) post, one you would have seen first as a subscriber to his newsletter, And It Don't Stop. This, like all of Xgau Sez, is archived here. [posted by Webmaster on 2019-11-20] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient More Information |
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