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Robert Christgau published his Consumer Guide: April, 2024: A blatant genius given to unassuming meditations; one of rap's most eloquent; a bootleg (gone legit) documenting a definitive band becoming such; and musical intelligence vs. the world falling apart.
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical ...
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 ...
Without adducing my 55-year track record in these fraught matters, which is somewhat better than that of most rock critics', I'll offer a simple race-and-gender breakdown of the 2022 Dean's List: neatly if coincidentally, I've named 38 Black artists and 38 female artists, 16 of them both.
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Jan 25, 2024 · Share. A few of the 43 (and counting) variants of Hackney Diamonds available. The Rolling Stones have now been the world’s greatest rock and roll band for over half a century—60 years, starting with five classic albums released in the 20 months between April 1964 and December 1965.
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