This month's And It Don't Stop hands the ball to my wife Carola Dibbell, who as a transplanted Londoner way back in 1968 was knocked out of her socks by this American singer she'd never heard of named Janis Joplin. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

Chagrined to report that the new Xgau Sez is marred by an oversight — failed to name the greatest Samuel R. Delany novel: Dhalgren. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-s...

Chagrined to report that the new Xgau Sez is marred by an oversight — failed to name the greatest Samuel R. Delany novel: Dhalgren. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-s...

This month's edition of Christgau's Consumer Guide features a link to Peter Stampfel's 23 pages of notes to "Song Shards," his highly recommended single-disc assembly of 66 jingles, some of which also count as hymns. I strongly suggest you check it out. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

This month's edition of Christgau's Consumer Guide features a link to Peter Stampfel's 23 pages of notes to "Song Shards," his highly recommended single-disc assembly of 66 jingles, some of which also count as hymns. I strongly suggest you check it out. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...

I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...

Looking forward to what that immaterial motherfucker AI has to say about the August 2025 edition of Xgau Sez robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-a...

Kentucky troubadour explores the world, New Zealand ingenue explores Canal Street, and Greenwich Villagers can't stop won't stop in the August '25 edition of the unstoppable Consumer Guide robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Kentucky troubadour explores the world, New Zealand ingenue explores Canal Street, and Greenwich Villagers can't stop won't stop in the August '25 edition of the unstoppable Consumer Guide robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Dug out some early not actually hyperbolic contextualization of the insufficiently legendary Mekons for this week's Big Lookback at my Substack newspiece And It Don't Stop. open.substack.com/pub/robertch...

Dug out some early not actually hyperbolic contextualization of the insufficiently legendary Mekons for this week's Big Lookback at my Substack newspiece And It Don't Stop. open.substack.com/pub/robertch...

"The fascists lose. They always lose," and other jaunty sayings grace my reflections on the magnificent Mekons show at the Bowery Ballroom this past Thursday. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-horror...

"The fascists lose. They always lose." and other jaunty sayings grace my reflections on the magnificent Mekons show at the Bowery Ballroom this past Thursday. mail.aol.com/d/list/refer...

"The fascists lose. They always lose," and other jaunty sayings grace my reflections on the magnificent Mekons show at the Bowery Ballroom this past Thursday. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-horror...

"The fascists lose. They always lose." and other jaunty sayings grace my reflections on the magnificent Mekons show at the Bowery Ballroom this past Thursday. mail.aol.com/d/list/refer...

Revisiting genius, recalibrating the A plus, the country and the city, the colloquial connubial, CDs as progress, and lost dreams of TV stardom are topics addressed in the July 2025 edition of Xgau Sez at my Substack whatchamacallit And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-j...

Revisiting genius, recalibrating the A plus, the country and the city, the colloquial connubial, CDs as progress, and lost dreams of TV stardom are topics addressed in the July 2025 edition of Xgau Sez at my Substack whatchamacallit And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Old oldtimers Neil Young and Chuck D vocalize their well nigh undiminished way onto the July 2025 Consumer Guide. Seasoned newcomer Adrianne Lenker smokes both of them off what sometimes sounds like the top of her head. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Old oldtimers Neil Young and Chuck D vocalize their well nigh undiminished way onto the July 2025 Consumer Guide. Seasoned newcomer Adrianne Lenker smokes both of them off what sometimes sounds like the top of her head. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Pulled out an old John Lennon album last week and decided it was a lot better than I thought when it came out--a lot. Get the revised story here and if you're tempted order one for yourself sooner rather than later. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/john-lenno...

Pulled out an old John Lennon album last week and decided it was a lot better than I thought when it came out--a lot. Get the revised story here and if you're tempted order one for yourself sooner rather than later. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/john-lenno...

Vibrations on 10th Street, Clay Felker on Mott Street, Leadbelly or is it Lead Belly, Michael Hurley mourned in Bombay, '80s CGs, and various, duds, bombs, and plusses are all addressed via the latest Xgau Sez in my And it Don't Stop Substack thingamajig. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-j...

Vibrations on 10th Street, Clay Felker on Mott Street, Leadbelly or is it Lead Belly, Michael Hurley mourned in Bombay, '80s CGs, and various, duds, bombs, and plusses are all addressed via the latest Xgau Sez in my And it Don't Stop Substack thingamajig. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-j...

Who better to send Brian Wilson off to a suitably iconic yet fun fun fun reward that comprehends his seldom acknowledged political relevance than my old friend and neighbor Tom Smucker in the latest edition of my Substack screed And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/brian-wils...

Who better to send Brian Wilson off to a suitably iconic yet fun fun fun reward that comprehends his seldom acknowledged political relevance than my old friend and neighbor Tom Smucker in the latest edition of my Substack screed And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/brian-wils...

NYC Comptroller candidate Justin Brannan is sending out a well-conceived notice that the a shitload of NYC investment money in Tesla isn't just funding the chickenshit division of the Heil Trump! crew but could well end up costing New Yorkers millions. secure.actblue.com/donate/brann...

@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as “a lost treasure of a time when capitalism had so much slack in it that there was no pressing need to stop your mind from wandering”

The June 2025 Consumer Guide comes with an add-on: my transcription of the entirety of the Bruce Springsteen speechifying that renders his aptest commercially released live album a piece of history and a finger in Trump's eye. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

This may seem sacriligious to some, but Wussy's show at the Mercury Lounge last night, which climaxed their first tour in years, was for me even more enthralling than Gof4. New steel player somehow filled the gap left by John Erhardt. Do this more guys, please. Made me forget Trump for an hour.

The June 2025 Consumer Guide comes with an add-on: my transcription of the entirety of the Bruce Springsteen speechifying that renders his aptest commercially released live album a piece of history and a finger in Trump's eye. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

This month's Big Lookback at my And It Don't Stop Substack revisits a still findable and indeed streamable Grateful Dead documentary from their good old days. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

This month's Big Lookback at my And It Don't Stop Substack revisits a still findable and indeed streamable Grateful Dead documentary from their good old days. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

Hours on the phone with the great Tom Hull and the greater (in her way) Carola Dibbell, both of whom though especially Tom are so much better than me at That Computer Stuff it's not funny except when it is, a rare event. So now it seems my site is up and running. Take that, ELP.

On a whim I dipped into a slim book of poems by Ramon Guthrie, a fondly remembered Dartmouth prof of mine sixty-plus years ago. Turns out they proved so remarkable that I didn't stop and haven't stopped yet. So just for the fun of it start here yourself. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/graffiti-a...

Several friends have alerted me to the fact that my site has been "suspended," as the online gods told me when I checked. No idea why. My webmaster, Tom Hull, is based in Wichita so this may take a while. Will post here again when there's further news. Damn.

On a whim I dipped into a slim book of poems by Ramon Guthrie, a fondly remembered Dartmouth prof of mine sixty-plus years ago. Turns out they proved so remarkable that I didn't stop and haven't stopped yet. So just for the fun of it start here yourself. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/graffiti-a...

Gospel meets matrimony, Carola gets a cameo, the Turkey Shoot in history, A albums revisited, A albums recalibrated, and my very own documentaries rise up from the May Xgau Sez in my Substack thingamajig And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-m...

Gospel meets matrimony, Carola gets a cameo, the Turkey Shoot in history, A albums revisited, A albums recalibrated, and my very own documentaries rise up from the May Xgau Sez in my Substack thingamajig And It Don't Stop. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-m...

Just FYI, the May Consumer Guide includes an A plus Ray Charles album that came out in 1959 and an attagirl profusion of ex-Christian lesbians. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Just FYI, the May Consumer Guide includes an A plus Ray Charles album that came out in 1959 and an attagirl profusion of ex-Christian lesbians. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

Jerry Williams, the prolifically nutso r&b cult hero aka Swamp Dogg since 1969's Total Destruction to Your Mind LP, gallivants through the Paul Lovelace doc Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, whose theatrical debut is tonight at NYC's IFC Center 323 Sixth Ave. Don't miss--both deep and a true hoot.

As the Gang of Four remind the world what a helluva band they remain, I just had to run a Big Lookback documenting their legendary 1982 Hudson Pier show, which I assigned wearing my Village Voice music editor hat. Author: great lost Riffer Carola Dibbell. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

This very long, very researched, very disgusting WaPo report on sex crimes in the music biz whether adjudicated or not should be read by anyone who wishes it weren't so. Starring none other than the ever more odious Puff Daddy. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

As the Gang of Four remind the world what a helluva band they remain, I just had to run a Big Lookback documenting their legendary 1982 Hudson Pier show, which I assigned wearing my Village Voice music editor hat. Author: great lost Riffer Carola Dibbell. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

Was shocked to learn of the death of poet-rock critic Joshua Clover at only 62. Reports that he died in the hospital of a breathing disorder jibe too well with what I've been noticing with alarm--post the late-winter pneumonia wave other nasty respiratory ills keep rising to the surface. Be careful.

Review is on my Substack robertchristgau.substack.com/p/gang-of-tw...

As my man Joe Levy indicates in this vicinity, I got to test my 83-year-old bones at a Sony Hall Gang of Four show in Manhattan two nights ago. Sorry you weren't there. For that matter, sorry my wife Carola wasn't there either. Like her, the concert was what I like to call really something.

As my man Joe Levy indicates in this vicinity, I got to test my 83-year-old bones at a Sony Hall Gang of Four show in Manhattan two nights ago. Sorry you weren't there. For that matter, sorry my wife Carola wasn't there either. Like her, the concert was what I like to call really something.

Saw @gangoffour.bsky.social last night with @rxgau.bsky.social and @audiation.bsky.social, and one of us wrote about it. (It was not me.) robertchristgau.substack.com/p/gang-of-tw...