And It Don't Stop

• A Century in Four Hours and Forty Minutes -- Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs
• A Dot of Iowa Blue -- Art Cullen: Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper (Viking, 317 pp.)
• After the Flood -- Ned Sublette: The Year Before the Flood (2009, 452 pp.)
• Another Girl, Same Planet -- Carola Dibbell: The Only Ones (354 pp., 2015)
• Another Side of Another Side (Of Another Side?)
• Auriculum (Ep. 4): Xgau & Sheffield Trade Year-End Lists
• Auriculum (Ep. 5): Bob & Carola & The Art and Science of List Making
• Auriculum, Episode 1 -- Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield
• Auriculum, Episode 2 -- Rob Sheffield (Part 2)
• Auriculum, Episode 3 -- Rob Sheffield (Part 3)
• Avoiding Wet-Bulb 35C -- Kim Stanley Robinson, \
• Combating the Sound of Whiteness -- Amanda Petrusich, 'Mickey Guyton Takes On the Overwhelming Whiteness of Country Music' (2021, 15 pp.); Geoff Mann, 'Why Does Country Music Sound White?: Race and the Voice of Nostalgia' (2008, 28 pp.)
• Continuing Education -- Jeannie Seely: Sixty-seven years of love lessons
• Dean's List: The 2010s -- The 25 best albums of the last 10 years
• Deconstructing Reconstruction -- Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (257 pp., 2006)
• Diplomatic Ties -- On the first rock critic Secretary of State
• Doing It and Doing It and Doing It Well -- Dale Cockrell, Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York 1840-1917 (2019, 270 pp.)
• Endless Boogie -- Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (2000, 505 pp.)
• Favorite vs. Best vs. Whatever -- Ballots for Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs poll and some thoughts on precious dollops of pleasure
• Flag Still There -- Some thoughts on Jimi Hendrix, the national anthem, and the F-bomb
• Ghost Dance -- The Big Lookback: The struggle to make sense of how things felt--and sounded--0 years ago
• Heart of Darkness -- Jeff Sharlet: This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers (2008, 320 pp.)
• Information Is Your Friend -- Dawn Oberg
• It's a Start
• Lists on Lists on Lists -- Ballots for the third Rolling Stone inventory of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• Little Records With Big Holes -- The Big Lookback: A 1971 piece on singles from Tommy James, Jean Knight and Freda Payne, the joys of AM radio and the dark forces of shlock-rock.
• Lock Him Up -- Jim DeRogatis: Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly (2019, 306 pp.)
• Love & Kisses -- Isabel Miller: Patience & Sarah (1969, 184pp.)
• Many musics heal. This was designed for the job.
• Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.
• My Thigh Hurts -- The 77 Year Old Rock Critic meets his 77-year-old body
• Oh? OK Then. -- A reissue of the liner notes to a reissue.
• Out of the Box -- Red-diaper baby gets the Attica documentary she deserves
• Playing With (and Burying) the Big Boys -- The Clash's London Calling at 40
• Quarantine Me to the Ball Game
• Queen of Plainstyle -- Willa Cather: My Antonia (1918, 272 pp.)
• Root of All Evil -- Ned and Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast (2016, 754 pp)
• Say It, Sisters -- James Daley, Ed: Great Speeches by American Women (2008, 179 pp.)
• She Wants to Know What Love Is -- Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora (2015, 501 pages)
• Storytellers -- Liz Phair: \
• Ten Movies I Love -- My contribution to an already fading Twitter game
• The Big Lookback: Biz Markie -- In 1991, Biz sampled Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Alone Again (Naturally)' and changed hip-hop--though not in ways anyone intended
• The Big Lookback: Joy of Cooking -- The 50th anniversary of Joy of Cooking's first-of-its-kind first album
• The Big Lookback: The Rolling Stones -- In the 43 years since Some Girls, Dirty Work is the best album the Stones came up with. No, fuck you.
• The Big Lookback: The Yankees Learn to Lose -- As a topsy-turvy, streaky season draws to a close (or does it?) some thoughts on this year's Yankees and the Yankees of 47 years ago
• The Book of Books, Rockcrit and Musicology Division -- Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (2021, 530 pp)
• The Definitive Guide to (What May Be) Pop's Definitive Year -- Michaelangelo Matos, Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year
• The Swashbuckler -- Dave Hickey: Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (2017, 207 pp.)
• There's Always Music in This Joint -- Rich Krueger
• Twentieth Century Low Life, Illuminated -- Luc Sante, Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2020, 328 pp.)
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• Vote! It Ain't Illegal Yet!
• Zoology 101 -- The Zoo (Animal Planet series 2017-)