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  10. <title>The Big Lookback: Stevie Wonder</title>
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  12. <description>From 1999, written for the program to the Kennedy Center Honors induction</description>
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  17. <title>How J Dilla Turned the Sound of Error Into a Brand New Beat</title>
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  19. <description>The biography "Dilla Time" by Dan Charnas illuminates the hip-hop legend's seismic rhythmic innovations with deep and vivid reporting</description>
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  24. <title>Finding Refuge</title>
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  26. <description>Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director), "Flee" (2021)</description>
  27. <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  31. <title>Xgau Sez: March, 2022</title>
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  33. <description>On not grading on a curve, not loving Nina Simone, not pledging unqualified fealty to Bruce Springsteen, &amp; not finding fun in fascism, Kid Rock, or Kanye West. Plus: the story of Nirvana's "Bluebaby."</description>
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  38. <title>Consumer Guide: March, 2022</title>
  39. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2022-03.php</link>
  40. <description>Haunting delicacy that clatters, queer noise-pop that's cleansing, a Malian feminist produced by an ex-punk, &amp; a Romani horn band covering Bill Withers. Plus: songs from Trinidad, Lagos, &amp; John Prine.</description>
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  45. <title>Reports From the Front</title>
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  47. <description>Evgeny Afineevsky, "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (115 minutes, 2015); Sergey Loznitsa, "Maïdan" (130 minutes, 2014); Kalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (300 pp., 2021)</description>
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  52. <title>The Big Lookback: Neil Young</title>
  53. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/young-23.php</link>
  54. <description>>From 1997, "Wasted on the Young," a survey of a vast catalogue that has only grown since then.</description>
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  59. <title>It's Alive! The Ramones Prove Too Tough to Die at the Queens Museum</title>
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  66. <title>Hippy, Punk, Guitarist, Historian</title>
  67. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/kaye-22.php</link>
  68. <description>Lenny Kaye: "Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll" (496 pp., 2022)</description>
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  73. <title>Xgau Sez: February, 2022</title>
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  75. <description>Old men's poems, some two dozen Dead shows (and not counting), Radiohead and Mingus and classical music, and grading the late-'60s Stones.</description>
  76. <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  80. <title>Consumer Guide: February, 2022</title>
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  82. <description>Sex-not-love songs from women born 98 years apart, pansexual classroom autobiography, and fictional love &amp; hip-hop drama. Plus: Nas's heavy head, bare-boned rock, &amp; heroines of blues, gospel and rock.</description>
  83. <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  87. <title>Christina Stead, 1902-1983</title>
  88. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/u/cd/bkrev/stead-83.php</link>
  89. <description>by Carola Dibbell</description>
  90. <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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  94. <title>Coming of Age in Washington Square, 1958</title>
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  96. <description>by Carola Dibbell</description>
  97. <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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  101. <title>The Big Lookback: Dakar Diary</title>
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  103. <description>From MSN Music in 2010, a week in the capital of African pop</description>
  104. <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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  108. <title>Dean's List: 2021</title>
  109. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans21.php</link>
  110. <description>The list.</description>
  111. <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  115. <title>Dean's List: 2021</title>
  116. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj21.php</link>
  117. <description>The introductory essay.</description>
  118. <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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  122. <title>Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves</title>
  123. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/u/cd/music/bangs-15.php</link>
  124. <description>by Carola Dibbell: Revisiting Lester Bangs</description>
  125. <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  129. <title>Good Times, Bad Times: Moe Tucker</title>
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  131. <description>by Carola Dibbell</description>
  132. <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  136. <title>Jeanne Moreau at 48</title>
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  138. <description>by Carola Dibbell</description>
  139. <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 02:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  143. <title>Xgau Sez: January, 2022</title>
  144. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2022-01-19</link>
  145. <description>Notes on Ornette Coleman at Carnegie Hall, hope for Elvis Costello fans, no hope for Silver Surfer fans, and Dave Hickey's Greatest Hits.</description>
  146. <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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  150. <title>Consumer Guide: January, 2022</title>
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  152. <description>A 29 year old starts again, an 80 year old comes alive, and a "Marque Moon" cover from two guys separated by 37 years. Plus songs from Georgia, Timbuktu, Congo, Nashville, and the Velvet Underground.</description>
  153. <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2022 11:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  157. <title>The Big Lookback: Chuck D All Over the Place</title>
  158. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/chuckd-22.php</link>
  159. <description>From the Village Voice, Oct. 22, 1991: Greg Tate and Robert Christgau interview Chuck D</description>
  160. <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 19:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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  164. <title>Life at 400 Heartbeats Per Minute</title>
  165. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/hummingbirds-21.php</link>
  166. <description>Paul Reddish (writer-director); David Attenborough (narrator), "Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers" (2012)</description>
  167. <pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  171. <title>Dazzle on the Spot</title>
  172. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/tate-bkf.php</link>
  173. <description>Greg Tate (1957-2021)</description>
  174. <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  178. <title>Xgau Sez: December, 2021</title>
  179. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-12-15</link>
  180. <description>A Wikipedia shout out, the alt-right assault on election workers and school-board members, desert-island Miles, fondness for ABBA revealed, the serial comma defended, and a brief history of rhyme</description>
  181. <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  185. <title>Greg Tate</title>
  186. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/tate-21.php</link>
  187. <description>A note for NPR</description>
  188. <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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  192. <title>Consumer Guide: December, 2021</title>
  193. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-12.php</link>
  194. <description>Protest music then &amp; now, decency with slightly sour pitch, politics not charity, hip-hop that's flying and grounded, Xmas song greatness, pandemic anomie, and Greg Tate's Arkestra goes for Miles</description>
  195. <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  199. <title>The Big Lookback: The Three Roches Crack Wise</title>
  200. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/roches-21.php</link>
  201. <description>From the Feb. 20, 1978, "Village Voice": Carola Dibbell on the Roches live at Kenny's Castaways</description>
  202. <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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  206. <title>Like Pops Never Happened: A Fortysomething's History of Music</title>
  207. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/sanneh-21.php</link>
  208. <description>Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels" (496 pp., 2021)</description>
  209. <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 14:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  213. <title>Xgau Sez: November, 2021</title>
  214. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-11-17</link>
  215. <description>The UC Davis writers' enclave, baseball movies worth a swing, respecting the Dead, Virgil Thompson and Harold Bloom vs. the hoi polloi, the plot against democracy, and underestimating evil</description>
  216. <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  220. <title>Consumer Guide: November, 2021</title>
  221. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-11.php</link>
  222. <description>Songs about God, scrumptious pussy, climate change, pool hopping your way to love, living paycheck to paycheck, and buying this and that but wanting flowers from outer space.</description>
  223. <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  227. <title>Faster Miles an Hour Who Knows Where</title>
  228. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/clover-21.php</link>
  229. <description>Joshua Clover, "Roadrunner" (119 pp., 2021)</description>
  230. <pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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  234. <title>The Big Lookback: The Rolling Stones</title>
  235. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/stones-21.php</link>
  236. <description>From "Blender," a review of the Stones at Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Connecticut August 26, 2005</description>
  237. <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  241. <title>Xgau Sez: October, 2021</title>
  242. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-10-20</link>
  243. <description>Once more unto the mongering, the Stones sans Charlie, baseball avec sabermetrics, grading the second Velvets albums, appropriation vs. appreciation, Billie Eilish vs. Al Green</description>
  244. <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  248. <title>Consumer Guide: October 2021</title>
  249. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-10.php</link>
  250. <description>Songwriters from Austin, Chattanooga, and Nashville. Rappers from London by way of Nigeria and Belgium by way of the Congo. Also: a worldly sophisticate, a genuine adult, and a Wolf who howls.</description>
  251. <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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  255. <title>The Big Lookback: The Yankees Learn to Lose</title>
  256. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/yankees-21.php</link>
  257. <description>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</description>
  258. <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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  262. <title>Avoiding Wet-Bulb 35C</title>
  263. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/robinson-21.php</link>
  264. <description>Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Ministry for the Future" (2020, 563 pp.): Kim Stanley Robinson deploys low-action science fiction and high-finance capitalist suasion in two phenomenally cerebral yet heartfelt attempts to pit prose against human extinction.</description>
  265. <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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  269. <title>Favorite vs. Best vs. Whatever</title>
  270. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/songs-21.php</link>
  271. <description>Ballots for Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs poll and some thoughts on precious dollops of pleasure</description>
  272. <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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  276. <title>Xgau Sez: September, 2021</title>
  277. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-09-22</link>
  278. <description>The rock-critic economy, rumba reading, not sucking in your 70s, Van the Prick, and the meaning of meaning-mongering.</description>
  279. <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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  283. <title>The Big Lookback: Ghost Dance</title>
  284. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/ghost-21.php</link>
  285. <description>The struggle to make sense of how things felt--and sounded--0 years ago</description>
  286. <pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  290. <title>Consumer Guide: September, 2021</title>
  291. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-09.php</link>
  292. <description>A decade worth of New Jersey indie rock, Tune-Yards' very best, erotic engagement and ennui from the '20s (the 1920s, that is), and Lucy Dacus's verbally and musically detailed religious apostasy.</description>
  293. <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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  297. <title>Little Records With Big Holes</title>
  298. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/records-21.php</link>
  299. <description>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.</description>
  300. <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  304. <title>Out of the Box</title>
  305. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/attica-21.php</link>
  306. <description>Red-diaper baby gets the Attica documentary she deserves.</description>
  307. <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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  311. <title>XgauSez (August 18, 2021)</title>
  312. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-08-18</link>
  313. <description>Pleasure without guilt, inspirational verses, the generosity of Sonny Rollins and David Bowie (et. al.), bridging the language gap (or not), and the selling of bridges and other products of capitalism</description>
  314. <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  318. <title>Consumer Guide: August, 2021</title>
  319. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-08.php</link>
  320. <description>Discontented candor, miraculous West Indian guitar, political hip-hop with aesthetic vortex, and punk-sparked roots. Plus: Ghanaian Afrofunk, a happy armed robber, and rhythm as a unit of meaning.</description>
  321. <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  325. <title>Storytellers</title>
  326. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/phair-21.php</link>
  327. <description>Liz Phair: "Horror Stories" (258 pp., 2019); Marc Ribot: "Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist" (216 pp., 2021); Jim Flannigan: "Don the Burp and Other Stories" (42 pp., 1980)</description>
  328. <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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  332. <title>Xgau Sez: July, 2021</title>
  333. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-07-28</link>
  334. <description>Generalizations too vast to swear by, instrumentals worth hearing, the algorithm vs. the people, and Frank Zappa vs. George Clinton.</description>
  335. <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  339. <title>Robert Quine</title>
  340. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/quine-psf.php</link>
  341. <description>Tribute note for Perfect Sound Forever, 2004.</description>
  342. <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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  346. <title>The Big Lookback: Biz Markie</title>
  347. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/markie-21.php</link>
  348. <description>In 1991, Biz sampled Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" and changed hip-hop--though not in ways anyone intended</description>
  349. <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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  353. <title>Consumer Guide: July, 2021</title>
  354. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-07.php</link>
  355. <description>Underwear-clad quarantine broadcasts, bouncy Sleater-Kinney, mood music for a time of perpetual disquiet, and Cobain variations. Plus: strong women on love, cheerleaders and the men who rule the world</description>
  356. <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  360. <title>The Big Lookback: The Rolling Stones</title>
  361. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/rollingstones-21.php</link>
  362. <description>In the 43 years since "Some Girls," "Dirty Work" is the best album the Stones came up with. No, fuck you.</description>
  363. <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  367. <title>Combating the Sound of Whiteness</title>
  368. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/guyton-21.php</link>
  369. <description>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.)</description>
  370. <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  374. <title>Xgau Sez: June, 2021</title>
  375. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-06-16</link>
  376. <description>Lousy (or not) Stones albums, world champion Beatles albums, some musical geniuses, some upbeat albums, and whither rock &amp; roll? Plus: the story of 1974's Consumer Guide to America's Yogurts.</description>
  377. <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  381. <title>Consumer Guide: June, 2021</title>
  382. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-06.php</link>
  383. <description>Seeing the light with Loretta Lynn, driving with Olivia Rodrigo, mourning cats with Dry Cleaning, and wrapping your troubles in Lou Reed's dreams. Plus: sounds from Ghana, Japan, Norway, and Chicago</description>
  384. <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  388. <title>The Big Lookback: Joy of Cooking</title>
  389. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/joyofcooking-21.php</link>
  390. <description>The 50th anniversary of Joy of Cooking's first-of-its-kind first album</description>
  391. <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 01:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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  395. <title>The Book of Books, Rockcrit and Musicology Division</title>
  396. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/weisbard-21.php</link>
  397. <description>Eric Weisbard, "Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music" (2021, 530 pp)</description>
  398. <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 16:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  402. <title>Xgau Sez: May, 2021</title>
  403. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-05-19</link>
  404. <description>Some thoughts on dolts (or not), the Smart Monkee, rock bios, the greatest albums of the '90s (not ranked) and the best novels of the 21st century (ranked). Plus: In every dream life a headache.</description>
  405. <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
  406. </item>
  407.  
  408. <item>
  409. <title>Consumer Guide: May, 2021</title>
  410. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-05.php</link>
  411. <description>The gospel from an Atlanta rap collective, hummable hooks from LDR, free flowing zingers from a well-read alt rhymer, and powerhouse vocals from the Sahara via the Hudson Valley.</description>
  412. <pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
  413. </item>
  414.  
  415. <item>
  416. <title>All the Time in the World: The Living End in Peter Stampfel and Willie Nelson</title>
  417. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/nelson-21.php</link>
  418. <description>In the inaugural edition of The Big Lookback: A lecture from the 2019 Museum of Pop Culture Conerence, which was themed around music, death, and afterlife.</description>
  419. <pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2021 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
  420. </item>
  421.  
  422. <item>
  423. <title>A Century in Four Hours and Forty Minutes</title>
  424. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/stampfel-21.php</link>
  425. <description>Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs</description>
  426. <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
  427. </item>
  428.  
  429. <item>
  430. <title>Xgau Sez: April, 2021</title>
  431. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-04-14</link>
  432. <description>Taste vs. judgment, the (somewhat) enduring appeal of Leon Thomas, the diminishing appeal of Green Day, reading about if not listening to Joanna Newsom, and the hymnals of Judee Sill and Todd Snider.</description>
  433. <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
  434. </item>
  435.  
  436. <item>
  437. <title>Consumer Guide: April, 2021</title>
  438. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-04.php</link>
  439. <description>Dispatches from the inferno as seen from Melbourne, the Twin Cities, Detroit, NYC and Prague. Plus the White Stripes ring the bell, Neil Young empties the rust bucket, and '60s blues wrecks.</description>
  440. <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
  441. </item>
  442.  
  443. <item>
  444. <title>Root of All Evil</title>
  445. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/sublette-21.php</link>
  446. <description>Ned and Constance Sublette, "The American Slave Coast" (2016, 754 pp)</description>
  447. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
  448. </item>
  449.  
  450. <item>
  451. <title>Xgau Sez: March, 2021</title>
  452. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-03-17</link>
  453. <description>Groove with a side order of vocal emotion, soul with a (small) side order of jazz organ, Queen with less kitsch and more camp, and parody with honor. Plus: two movies, one a must a see.</description>
  454. <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
  455. </item>
  456.  
  457. <item>
  458. <title>Auriculum (Ep. 5): Bob &amp; Carola &amp; The Art and Science of List Making</title>
  459. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/auriculum5.php</link>
  460. <description>Under discussion: the big fun work (and anxiety) of assembling top 50 albums ballots for the "Rolling Stone 500," why "What's Going On" didn't make the cut, and why DeBarge did.</description>
  461. <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
  462. </item>
  463.  
  464. <item>
  465. <title>Consumer Guide: February 2021</title>
  466. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-03.php</link>
  467. <description>Rhyme sprees from a revolutionary, a poet with laundry to do, and a compulsive veteran. Plus staccato guitar outbursts, an Arkansas bard, a South African doyenne, and losers get a glow up</description>
  468. <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
  469. </item>
  470.  
  471. <item>
  472. <title>The Definitive Guide to (What May Be) Pop's Definitive Year</title>
  473. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/matos-21.php</link>
  474. <description>Review of Michaelangelo Matos, "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year" (2020, 468 pp).</description>
  475. <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
  476. </item>
  477.  
  478. <item>
  479. <title>Consumer Guide: February 2021</title>
  480. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-02.php</link>
  481. <description>Hip-hop from an anxiety-ridden melodicist, an FDNY veteran, and an unpredictable eccentric. Plus bellowing punk protest, durable jangle-pop, solo acoustic road tales, and Gaga Gaga Gaga</description>
  482. <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
  483. </item>
  484.  
  485. <item>
  486. <title>Auriculum (Ep. 4): Xgau &amp; Sheffield Trade Year-End Lists</title>
  487. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/auriculum4.php</link>
  488. <description></description>
  489. <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
  490. </item>
  491.  
  492. <item>
  493. <title>Oh? OK Then.</title>
  494. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/ohok-21.php</link>
  495. <description>A reissue of the liner notes to a reissue.</description>
  496. <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
  497. </item>
  498.  
  499. <item>
  500. <title>Dean's List: 2020: The list</title>
  501. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans20.php</link>
  502. <description></description>
  503. <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
  504. </item>
  505.  
  506. <item>
  507. <title>Dean's List: 2020: Introduction</title>
  508. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj20.php</link>
  509. <description></description>
  510. <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
  511. </item>
  512.  
  513. <item>
  514. <title>Pazz &amp; Jop 2018: The  Dean's List</title>
  515. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj18.php</link>
  516. <description>Pazz and Jop essay for 2018.</description>
  517. <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
  518. </item>
  519.  
  520. <item>
  521. <title>XgauSez (January 20, 2021)</title>
  522. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2021-01-20</link>
  523. <description>Going underground with movies and the Velvets, saying yes to sampling and no to Sidney Bechet and the War on Drugs, and putting "Brown Sugar" out to pasture.</description>
  524. <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
  525. </item>
  526.  
  527. <item>
  528. <title>Consumer Guide: January, 2021</title>
  529. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2021-01.php</link>
  530. <description>Music from Morocco, Senegal, Kingston (Jamaica and New York), Minneapolis, and Omaha, Nebraska. Plus rhyme as analysis and rhyme as meaning, and Taylor Swift's future Christmas classic.</description>
  531. <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
  532. </item>
  533.  
  534. <item>
  535. <title>Continuing Education</title>
  536. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/seely-21.php</link>
  537. <description>Jeannie Seely: Sixty-seven years of love lessons</description>
  538. <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
  539. </item>
  540.  
  541. <item>
  542. <title>Doing It and Doing It and Doing It Well</title>
  543. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/cockrell-20.php</link>
  544. <description>Dale Cockrell, "Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York 1840-1917" (2019, 270 pp.)</description>
  545. <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
  546. </item>
  547.  
  548. <item>
  549. <title>XgauSez (December 16, 2020)</title>
  550. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez/php?d=2020-12-16</link>
  551. <description>The art of storytelling and album covers. Also: consensus meters, epic curation, and a protest playlist.</description>
  552. <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
  553. </item>
  554.  
  555. <item>
  556. <title>Consumer Guide: December, 2020</title>
  557. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-12.php</link>
  558. <description>Gender defiant hip-hop, environmental hip-hop, and free-form hip-hop. Plus: enraged guitar chanters get philosophical, Christmas songs get sad, and the baddest woman in country music comes alive.</description>
  559. <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
  560. </item>
  561.  
  562. <item>
  563. <title>Diplomatic Ties</title>
  564. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/blinken-20.php</link>
  565. <description>On the first rock critic Secretary of State</description>
  566. <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
  567. </item>
  568.  
  569. <item>
  570. <title>XgauSez (November 18, 2020)</title>
  571. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-11-18</link>
  572. <description>Some thoughts on family, work, dancing, and the permanent-collection CDs that come out at mealtime. Also: country songs about systematic oppression &amp; screwing with the hegemony of classical aesthetics</description>
  573. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
  574. </item>
  575.  
  576. <item>
  577. <title>Consumer Guide: November, 2020</title>
  578. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-11.php</link>
  579. <description>Voices of compassion and complexity from Philly, Brooklyn and Nashville. Plus a proudly biracial genius who invented his own jazz language, and Thelonious Monk flexing his muscles in a high school gym</description>
  580. <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
  581. </item>
  582.  
  583. <item>
  584. <title>Twentieth Century Low Life, Illuminated</title>
  585. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/sante-20.php</link>
  586. <description>Luc Sante, "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" (2020, 328 pp.)</description>
  587. <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
  588. </item>
  589.  
  590. <item>
  591. <title>XgauSez (October 21, 2020)</title>
  592. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-10-21</link>
  593. <description>Streamed lectures and streamed music, the jazz apple and the rock orange, the enduring skippability of "Oar," the Lion King vs. the Black Panther, and the power of "WAP." Special guest: Carola Dibbell</description>
  594. <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
  595. </item>
  596.  
  597. <item>
  598. <title>Consumer Guide: October, 2020</title>
  599. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-10.php</link>
  600. <description>Citizens -- of the South, of Africa, of Jamaica, of California, of Strong Island -- telling the world how much their lives matter</description>
  601. <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
  602. </item>
  603.  
  604. <item>
  605. <title>Flag Still There</title>
  606. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/flag-20.php</link>
  607. <description>Some thoughts on Jimi Hendrix, the national anthem, and the F-bomb</description>
  608. <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
  609. </item>
  610.  
  611. <item>
  612. <title>Lists on Lists on Lists</title>
  613. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/lists-20.php</link>
  614. <description>Ballots for the third "Rolling Stone" inventory of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time</description>
  615. <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
  616. </item>
  617.  
  618. <item>
  619. <title>Love &amp; Kisses</title>
  620. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/miller-20.php</link>
  621. <description>Isabel Miller: Patience &amp; Sarah (1969, 184 pp.)</description>
  622. <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
  623. </item>
  624.  
  625. <item>
  626. <title>Appreciation: Stanley Crouch, a Towering Critic, Loved a Good Fight</title>
  627. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/crouch-20.php</link>
  628. <description>An obituary and appreciation for the late critic.</description>
  629. <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
  630. </item>
  631.  
  632. <item>
  633. <title>XgauSez (September 16, 2020)</title>
  634. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-09-16</link>
  635. <description>Several 30 seconds of greatness, formalists formally considered, Ray Davies informally considered, list-making explained, hip-hop unexplained, and the "The Harry Smith B-Sides" expurgated</description>
  636. <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
  637. </item>
  638.  
  639. <item>
  640. <title>Vote! It's Not Illegal Yet!</title>
  641. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/vote-20.php</link>
  642. <description>On how to do more than just vote to defeat the "fascist fraudster turned impeached president Donald J. Trump."</description>
  643. <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
  644. </item>
  645.  
  646. <item>
  647. <title>Consumer Guide: August, 2020</title>
  648. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-09.php</link>
  649. <description>A rapper gone love man asks what's going on. A philosopher-musicologist and a Leicester thirtysomething poke at the class system. Plus songs about goons, gaslighters, random violence and childhood.</description>
  650. <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
  651. </item>
  652.  
  653. <item>
  654. <title>Heart of Darkness</title>
  655. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/sharlet-20.php</link>
  656. <description>Jeff Sharlet: This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers (2008, 320 pp.)</description>
  657. <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
  658. </item>
  659.  
  660. <item>
  661. <title>XgauSez (August 19, 2020)</title>
  662. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-08-19</link>
  663. <description>Life with (and without) cats, some thoughts on the back catalog of James Brown (and Sinatra and Nat King Cole), Lady A versus the schlocksters, born again Dylan versus born again Kanye</description>
  664. <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
  665. </item>
  666.  
  667. <item>
  668. <title>Consumer Guide: August, 2020</title>
  669. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-08.php</link>
  670. <description>Voices as instruments, Miamians from the trenches, sex &amp; romance from London &amp; LA, and a utopian wish from Stoughton, Mass. Plus: pastoral mysticism, ebullient escapism, and old-school caterwauling.</description>
  671. <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
  672. </item>
  673.  
  674. <item>
  675. <title>Quarantine Me to the Ballpark</title>
  676. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/baseball-20.php</link>
  677. <description>The return of the New York Yankees.</description>
  678. <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
  679. </item>
  680.  
  681. <item>
  682. <title>Zoology 101</title>
  683. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/zoology-20.php</link>
  684. <description>The Zoo (Animal Planet series 2017-)</description>
  685. <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
  686. </item>
  687.  
  688. <item>
  689. <title>XgauSez (July 15, 2020)</title>
  690. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-07-15</link>
  691. <description>Grades that hold up (and one that didn't), lyrical determinacy (or not), Kendrick's minuses (and pluses), pleasant enough music, unpleasant mail and the eternal greatness of T.S. Monk's "Bon Bon Vie."</description>
  692. <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
  693. </item>
  694.  
  695. <item>
  696. <title>Consumer Guide: July, 2020</title>
  697. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-07.php</link>
  698. <description>Parades, protests, rhyming philosophical apercus, and $13 beers, plus alt-rock standouts from Spain, Italy, the '90s, and Katie Crutchfield</description>
  699. <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
  700. </item>
  701.  
  702. <item>
  703. <title>After the Flood</title>
  704. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/sublette-20.php</link>
  705. <description>Ned Sublette: "The Year Before the Flood" (2009, 452 pp.)</description>
  706. <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
  707. </item>
  708.  
  709. <item>
  710. <title>XgauSez (June 17, 2020)</title>
  711. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-06-17</link>
  712. <description>Book picks, David Murray and Prince grades, singing with the brain, the two best albums never reviewed, and you say you want a revolution . . .</description>
  713. <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
  714. </item>
  715.  
  716. <item>
  717. <title>Consumer Guide: June, 2020</title>
  718. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-06.php</link>
  719. <description>From 50 million sold to giving it away for free, from righteous anger to righteous humor, from everything is beautiful to everything sucking--it's a big world out there. Let's hope it stays that way.</description>
  720. <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
  721. </item>
  722.  
  723. <item>
  724. <title>Deja Vu</title>
  725. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/young-08.php</link>
  726. <description>On the Neil Young documentary film, originally published in Film Comment (July-August 2008).</description>
  727. <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 20:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
  728. </item>
  729.  
  730. <item>
  731. <title>She Wants to Know What Love Is</title>
  732. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/robinson-20.php</link>
  733. <description>Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora (2015, 501 pages)</description>
  734. <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
  735. </item>
  736.  
  737. <item>
  738. <title>XgauSez (May 20, 2020)</title>
  739. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-05-20</link>
  740. <description>New questions and answers: John Prine's half century of great songs, playlisting for fun and work, 72 words in 24 hours, and what's at stake on November 3rd</description>
  741. <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 00:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
  742. </item>
  743.  
  744. <item>
  745. <title>Consumer Guide: May, 2020</title>
  746. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-05.php</link>
  747. <description>One man's plague songs for use, many women's plague songs for catharsis, a plague victim's jokes to live by, plus kind words and strange sounds to keep us sane.</description>
  748. <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 19:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
  749. </item>
  750.  
  751. <item>
  752. <title>Little Richard: Sexual Shaman and Embodiment of Rock 'n' Roll at Its Most Incendiary</title>
  753. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bb/richard-20.php</link>
  754. <description>Obituary.</description>
  755. <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 16:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
  756. </item>
  757.  
  758. <item>
  759. <title>Another Side of Another Side (Of Another Side?)</title>
  760. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/dylan-20.php</link>
  761. <description>Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul"</description>
  762. <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
  763. </item>
  764.  
  765. <item>
  766. <title>Endless Boogie</title>
  767. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/hooker-20.php</link>
  768. <description>Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (2000, 505 pp.)</description>
  769. <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
  770. </item>
  771.  
  772. <item>
  773. <title>Auriculum, Episode 3: Rob Sheffield (Part 3)</title>
  774. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/auriculum3.php</link>
  775. <description>Part 3 of a podcast with Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield.</description>
  776. <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
  777. </item>
  778.  
  779. <item>
  780. <title>XgauSez (April 15, 2020)</title>
  781. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-04-15</link>
  782. <description>New questions and answers: How we're doing, songs celebrating conjugal love, the last time Kanye was brilliant, the long road nowhere from "461 Ocean Boulevard" and lunch with Randy Newman</description>
  783. <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
  784. </item>
  785.  
  786. <item>
  787. <title>Auriculum, Episode 2: Rob Sheffield (Part 2)</title>
  788. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/auriculum2.php</link>
  789. <description>Part 2 of a podcast with Robert Christgau and Rob Sheffield.</description>
  790. <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
  791. </item>
  792.  
  793. <item>
  794. <title>Consumer Guide (April, 2020)</title>
  795. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-04.php</link>
  796. <description>Two proud country women, two grrls getting started, two songsters hanging in there, a flood of spiritual wisdom from a saxophone saint, and a wittier brand of wisdom from one of COVID-19's fallen.</description>
  797. <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
  798. </item>
  799.  
  800. <item>
  801. <title>Another Girl, Same Planet</title>
  802. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/dibbell-20.php</link>
  803. <description>Carola Dibbell: The Only Ones (354 pp., 2015).</description>
  804. <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
  805. </item>
  806.  
  807. <item>
  808. <title>Carola Dibbell: My Stemcell Transplant</title>
  809. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/u/cd/misc/stemcell-19.php</link>
  810. <description>Carola Dibbell: Thread on stem cell transplant surgery.</description>
  811. <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
  812. </item>
  813.  
  814. <item>
  815. <title>Your Family of Man's Mustache</title>
  816. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/u/cd/music/kerpel-03.php</link>
  817. <description>Carola Dibbell: On Gaby Kerpel's Carnabailito [2003]</description>
  818. <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
  819. </item>
  820.  
  821. <item>
  822. <title>Party in Bounds: B-52s</title>
  823. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/u/cd/music/b52s-98.php</link>
  824. <description>Carola Dibbell: On B-52s [1998]</description>
  825. <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
  826. </item>
  827.  
  828. <item>
  829. <title>XgauSez (March 18, 2020)</title>
  830. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-03-18</link>
  831. <description>New questions and answers: Xgau in China, Judy Garland, John and Yoko's feminism, Brian Wilson, contemporary jazz, and the best album of the 21st century</description>
  832. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
  833. </item>
  834.  
  835. <item>
  836. <title>Many musics heal. This was designed for the job.</title>
  837. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/guvenc-20.php</link>
  838. <description>On the "traditional sufi healing music" of Oruç Güvenç</description>
  839. <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
  840. </item>
  841.  
  842. <item>
  843. <title>Consumer Guide: March, 2020</title>
  844. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-03.php</link>
  845. <description>Two herstories and two youngish MCs, avant art and arrant art, Malian "rock" and grrrlpunk "rock," old Duke and new Pet Shop Boys and a lil something else</description>
  846. <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
  847. </item>
  848.  
  849. <item>
  850. <title>My Thigh Hurts</title>
  851. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/thigh-20.php</link>
  852. <description>The 77 Year Old Rock Critic meets his 77-year-old body</description>
  853. <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
  854. </item>
  855.  
  856. <item>
  857. <title>Queen of Plainstyle</title>
  858. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/cather-20.php</link>
  859. <description>Willa Cather: My Antonia (1918, 272 pp.)</description>
  860. <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
  861. </item>
  862.  
  863. <item>
  864. <title>There's Always Music in This Joint</title>
  865. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/krueger-19.php</link>
  866. <description>Rich Krueger</description>
  867. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
  868. </item>
  869.  
  870. <item>
  871. <title>The Swashbuckler</title>
  872. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/hickey-19.php</link>
  873. <description>Dave Hickey: Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (2017, 207 pp.)</description>
  874. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
  875. </item>
  876.  
  877. <item>
  878. <title>Ten Movies I Love</title>
  879. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/movies-20.php</link>
  880. <description>My contribution to an already fading Twitter game</description>
  881. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
  882. </item>
  883.  
  884. <item>
  885. <title>Say It, Sisters</title>
  886. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/daley-20.php</link>
  887. <description>James Daley, Ed: Great Speeches by American Women (2008, 179 pp.)</description>
  888. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
  889. </item>
  890.  
  891. <item>
  892. <title>Playing With (and Burying) the Big Boys</title>
  893. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/clash-19.php</link>
  894. <description>The Clash's London Calling at 40</description>
  895. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
  896. </item>
  897.  
  898. <item>
  899. <title>Lock Him Up</title>
  900. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/derogatis-19.php</link>
  901. <description>Jim DeRogatis: Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly (2019, 306 pp.)</description>
  902. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
  903. </item>
  904.  
  905. <item>
  906. <title>Information Is Your Friend</title>
  907. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/oberg-19.php</link>
  908. <description>Dawn Oberg</description>
  909. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
  910. </item>
  911.  
  912. <item>
  913. <title>A Dot of Iowa Blue</title>
  914. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/cullen-19.php</link>
  915. <description>Art Cullen: Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper (Viking, 317 pp.)</description>
  916. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
  917. </item>
  918.  
  919. <item>
  920. <title>Deconstructing Reconstruction</title>
  921. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/lemann-19.php</link>
  922. <description>Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (257 pp., 2006)</description>
  923. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
  924. </item>
  925.  
  926. <item>
  927. <title>Dean's List: The 2010s</title>
  928. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/deanslist-19.php</link>
  929. <description>The 25 best albums of the last 10 years</description>
  930. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
  931. </item>
  932.  
  933. <item>
  934. <title>Consumer Guide: September 2019</title>
  935. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2019-09.php</link>
  936. <description></description>
  937. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
  938. </item>
  939.  
  940. <item>
  941. <title>Consumer Guide: October 2019</title>
  942. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2019-10.php</link>
  943. <description></description>
  944. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
  945. </item>
  946.  
  947. <item>
  948. <title>Consumer Guide: November 2019</title>
  949. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2019-11.php</link>
  950. <description></description>
  951. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
  952. </item>
  953.  
  954. <item>
  955. <title>Consumer Guide: December 2019</title>
  956. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2019-12.php</link>
  957. <description></description>
  958. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
  959. </item>
  960.  
  961. <item>
  962. <title>Consumer Guide: January 2020</title>
  963. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-01.php</link>
  964. <description></description>
  965. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
  966. </item>
  967.  
  968. <item>
  969. <title>Consumer Guide: February 2020</title>
  970. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2020-02.php</link>
  971. <description></description>
  972. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
  973. </item>
  974.  
  975. <item>
  976. <title>Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.</title>
  977. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/music-19.php</link>
  978. <description></description>
  979. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
  980. </item>
  981.  
  982. <item>
  983. <title>It's a Start</title>
  984. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/dontstop/start-19.php</link>
  985. <description></description>
  986. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
  987. </item>
  988.  
  989. <item>
  990. <title>XgauSez (February 19, 2020)</title>
  991. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-02-19</link>
  992. <description>New questions and answers: Aesthetic morality, Macca and history, hitting a benchmark, "Sweet Home Chicago," working class Wussy and all in the family.</description>
  993. <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
  994. </item>
  995.  
  996. <item>
  997. <title>Dean's List 2019</title>
  998. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans19.php</link>
  999. <description></description>
  1000. <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
  1001. </item>
  1002.  
  1003. <item>
  1004. <title>XgauSez (January 15, 2020)</title>
  1005. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-01-15</link>
  1006. <description>New questions and answers: Parsing posthumous Coltrane, grading Big Star and Lil Wayne, and the uses of critical esotericism and formalism.</description>
  1007. <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  1008. </item>
  1009.  
  1010. <item>
  1011. <title>XgauSez (December 18, 2019)</title>
  1012. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2020-12-18</link>
  1013. <description>New questions and answers: In praise of differenter things, suggestive titles and (relatively) unmediated aesthetic pleasure.</description>
  1014. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  1015. </item>
  1016.  
  1017. <item>
  1018. <title>XgauSez (November 20, 2019)</title>
  1019. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-11-20</link>
  1020. <description>New questions and answers: Killer rock bios, the Motorhead-Pixies connection, and the most beautiful song in the English language (as of 1972)</description>
  1021. <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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  1023.  
  1024. <item>
  1025. <title>XgauSez (October 16, 2019)</title>
  1026. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-10-16</link>
  1027. <description>New questions and answers: Sly Stone versus peace-and-love, Steely Dan's chewy perversity, alt-rock also-rans, and the heroines of boygenius.</description>
  1028. <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
  1029. </item>
  1030.  
  1031. <item>
  1032. <title>The History of Music -- All of It -- in 400-plus Pages</title>
  1033. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/gioia-19.php</link>
  1034. <description>A review of Ted Gioia's "Music: A Surversive History."</description>
  1035. <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
  1036. </item>
  1037.  
  1038. <item>
  1039. <title>XgauSez (September 17, 2019)</title>
  1040. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-09-17</link>
  1041. <description>New questions and answers.</description>
  1042. <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
  1043. </item>
  1044.  
  1045. <item>
  1046. <title>To Bust You Shall Return</title>
  1047. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/lemann-19.php</link>
  1048. <description>Bookforum review of Nicholas Lemann's "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (Farrar Straus and Giroux)</description>
  1049. <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
  1050. </item>
  1051.  
  1052. <item>
  1053. <title>XgauSez (August 27, 2019)</title>
  1054. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-08-27</link>
  1055. <description>Tommy and Townshend, Lucinda Williams grows older, celebratory satire, the politics of rock criticism, resisting Trump's war on democracy, and spelling for amateurs in the latest triweekly edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1056. <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
  1057. </item>
  1058.  
  1059. <item>
  1060. <title>Jimi Hendris's "Star Spangled Banner"</title>
  1061. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/hendrix-19.php</link>
  1062. <description>Jimi Hendrix's 'Star Spangled Banner' is the anthem we need in the age of Trump.</description>
  1063. <pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
  1064. </item>
  1065.  
  1066. <item>
  1067. <title>Who the Fuck Knows</title>
  1068. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/whoknows-17.php</link>
  1069. <description>Covering music in Drumpfjahr II.</description>
  1070. <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  1072.  
  1073. <item>
  1074. <title>XgauSez (August 6, 2019)</title>
  1075. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-08-06</link>
  1076. <description>Grading/writing, grade inflation/rotten tomatoes, right/not so fast, Al Green/Peter Stampfel, Rostam/Ezra, and blogging/retiring in a week-late post-vacation edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1077. <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
  1078. </item>
  1079.  
  1080. <item>
  1081. <title>CG 70s: A Note for British Readers</title>
  1082. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/notebr.php</link>
  1083. <description>Addendum to British edition of "Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies" (1981).</description>
  1084. <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 03:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
  1085. </item>
  1086.  
  1087. <item>
  1088. <title>XgauSez (July 9, 2019)</title>
  1089. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-07-09</link>
  1090. <description>Shame, Luppi-Parquet Courts, "Heartbreak Hotel," Nick Hornby and rock and roll, live albums, and the quiddities of "retirement" (part one) in this triweekly edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1091. <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
  1092. </item>
  1093.  
  1094. <item>
  1095. <title>Expert Witness (May, 2019)</title>
  1096. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2019-06.php</link>
  1097. <description>Desaparecidos, Nicki Minaj, Mekons, Kristi Stassinopoulou &amp; Stathis Kalyviotis, Western Centuries, Wreckless Eric, Better Oblivion Community Center, Robert Cray, Chai, Charly Bliss, Tacocat, Abjects, Drinking Boys and Girls Choir, Pup, Lewis Capaldi, Lizzo, Kevin Abstract, Big Thief, Vampire Weekend, Martin Frawley, Fred Thomas, The Yawpers</description>
  1098. <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
  1099. </item>
  1100.  
  1101. <item>
  1102. <title>XgauSez (June 18, 2019)</title>
  1103. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-06-18</link>
  1104. <description>An African top 10, Old Town Road, Sabbaf sux, jazz through the years, lifetime favorites, and love meets use value in the latest triweekly edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1105. <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
  1106. </item>
  1107.  
  1108. <item>
  1109. <title>Expert Witness (May, 2019)</title>
  1110. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2019-05.php</link>
  1111. <description>Lee "Scratch" Perry, Tanya Tagaq, Sneaks, Bassekou Kouyate, Youssou N'Dour, "Two Niles," Quelle Chris, Epic Beard Man, The Coathangers, Priests, Camp Cope, Ex Hex, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Forster, Chris Butler, Peter Stampfel</description>
  1112. <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
  1113. </item>
  1114.  
  1115. <item>
  1116. <title>XgauSez (May 21, 2019)</title>
  1117. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-05-28</link>
  1118. <description>Pitchfork revisionism, musical conjugality, Chuck Klosterman, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World," what me "pussy-whipped," and not all that imminent death in the latest triweekly Xgau Sez.</description>
  1119. <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 19:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
  1120. </item>
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  1122. <item>
  1123. <title>XgauSez (May 7, 2019)</title>
  1124. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-05-07</link>
  1125. <description>Books that make me laugh, university presses, writer on the radio, pleasure listening, fleeting inspiration, and the Grammys in the latest triweekly edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1126. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 18:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
  1127. </item>
  1128.  
  1129. <item>
  1130. <title>Expert Witness (April 2019)</title>
  1131. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2019-04.php</link>
  1132. <description>Billie Eilish, Little Simz, 6lack, Khalid, Kyle, Brockhampton, Fat Tony, Salif Keita, Hama Sankare, Gato Preto, Bombino, Stella Donnelly, Sharon Van Etten, Jenny Lewis, Sir Babygirl, Girls on Grass</description>
  1133. <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
  1134. </item>
  1135.  
  1136. <item>
  1137. <title>Book page: Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading</title>
  1138. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-bkreps.php</link>
  1139. <description>
  1140. </description>
  1141. <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
  1142. </item>
  1143.  
  1144. <item>
  1145. <title>XgauSez (April 16, 2019)</title>
  1146. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-04-16</link>
  1147. <description>Whole lotta music through my ears, whither jazz, imaginary bilingualism, lo-fi, clarity not lucidity, and R. Kelly versus James Brown in the latest edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1148. <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  1150.  
  1151. <item>
  1152. <title>/xg/cg/ew2019-03.php</title>
  1153. <link>http://robertchristgau.com</link>
  1154. <description>Expert Witness (March 2019)</description>
  1155. <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
  1156. </item>
  1157.  
  1158. <item>
  1159. <title>XgauSez (March 26, 2019)</title>
  1160. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-03-26</link>
  1161. <description>New questions and answers.</description>
  1162. <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 04:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
  1163. </item>
  1164.  
  1165. <item>
  1166. <title>XgauSez (March 5, 2019)</title>
  1167. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-03-05</link>
  1168. <description>New questions and answers.</description>
  1169. <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
  1170. </item>
  1171.  
  1172. <item>
  1173. <title>Expert Witness (February 2019)</title>
  1174. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2019-02.php</link>
  1175. <description>Carsie Blanton, The Paranoid Style, The Rails, Kate Vargas, Caroline Rose, The Regrettes, Harriet Tubman, Thiago Nassif, Qais Essar, The Hot 8 Brass Band, RAM, Nordub, Alex Chilton, Big Star, Saba, The Coup, Czarface, G Herbo, 1800 Seconds.</description>
  1176. <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2019 01:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
  1177. </item>
  1178.  
  1179. <item>
  1180. <title>XgauSez (February 12, 2019)</title>
  1181. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-02-12</link>
  1182. <description>Pazz and Jop '18, you can't hear everything, millennial rappers, Todd Snider overrates me, pop vs. capitalism, Xgau vs, Willis in the latest Xgau Sez, which will go tri-weekly after this edition.</description>
  1183. <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
  1184. </item>
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  1186. <item>
  1187. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1188. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-01-29</link>
  1189. <description>Major-Minor, changing one's mind, changing one's mind again, Robyrt's Robyn, audiology, and a fan letter in the latest edition of Xgau Sez</description>
  1190. <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
  1191. </item>
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  1193. <item>
  1194. <title>Expert Witness (January 2019)</title>
  1195. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2019-01.php</link>
  1196. <description>The Ex, Idles, Marie Davidson, Public Service Broadcasting, The Delines, Kacey Musgraves, Marianne Faithfull, Brandi Carlile, Mitski, Soccer Mommy, Adrianne Lenker, Nice as Fuck.</description>
  1197. <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
  1198. </item>
  1199.  
  1200. <item>
  1201. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1202. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-01-15</link>
  1203. <description>Desert island discs, Dylan vs. Sinatra, Fiona Apple, Anthony Fantano, star grades, stylistic rules of thumb</description>
  1204. <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
  1205. </item>
  1206.  
  1207. <item>
  1208. <title>Ranked list of 83 best albums in 2018.</title>
  1209. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans18.php</link>
  1210. <description>
  1211. </description>
  1212. <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 19:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
  1213. </item>
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  1215. <item>
  1216. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1217. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2019-01-01</link>
  1218. <description>Respect, grades, 1975, books and EMP lectures, the rise of the right, [REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED]</description>
  1219. <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
  1220. </item>
  1221.  
  1222. <item>
  1223. <title>Expert Witness: December 2018</title>
  1224. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-12.php</link>
  1225. <description>Lupe Fiasco, Meek Mill, Lil Wayne, Vince Staples, Cupcakke, Leikeli47, The Goon Sax, Mad Crush, Flasher, Weekened Friends.</description>
  1226. <pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
  1227. </item>
  1228.  
  1229. <item>
  1230. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1231. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2018-12-18</link>
  1232. <description>The A list, the Turkey Shoot, the varieties of hooky experience, my homeboy Angel Del Villar, gear such as it is, and a rousing rendition of "I Am a Cuck" in the new edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1233. <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  1235.  
  1236. <item>
  1237. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1238. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2018-12-04</link>
  1239. <description>Xmas musick, my failure to adore Solange, Blackstar, and Drake. Schoolhouse rock, and the forthcoming "Book Reports" with special notes on Dreiser in this brand new edition of Xgau Sez.</description>
  1240. <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1241. </item>
  1242.  
  1243. <item>
  1244. <title>Expert Witness: November 2018</title>
  1245. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-11.php</link>
  1246. <description>Sons of Kemet, Doctor Nativo, "Celestial Blues," L7, Joan Jett, The Beths, Lala Lala, Homeboy Sandman &amp; Edan, Open Mike Eagle, Atmosphere, 2Mex, Red Pill, Pistol Annies, Becky Warren, Mandy Barnett, Robbie Fulks/Linda Gail Lewis, Rich Krueger, Paul Simon, The Chandler Travis Three-O</description>
  1247. <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
  1248. </item>
  1249.  
  1250. <item>
  1251. <title>XgauSez</title>
  1252. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?d=2018-11-20</link>
  1253. <description>Streaming vs. externality, 12 takes of "You're Gonna Make Me Miss You When You Go," Macca and Elvis C, Afropop primers, Sex Machine revisited, and Phylyppe Win</description>
  1254. <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1255. </item>
  1256.  
  1257. <item>
  1258. <title>Is It Still Good to Ya?</title>
  1259. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-isitya.php</link>
  1260. <description></description>
  1261. <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
  1262. </item>
  1263.  
  1264. <item>
  1265. <title>Why It's Still Good to Me: Robert Christgau Reflects on a Half Century of Rock Criticism</title>
  1266. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/christgau-18.php</link>
  1267. <description></description>
  1268. <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
  1269. </item>
  1270.  
  1271. <item>
  1272. <title>Expert Witness: October 2018</title>
  1273. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-10.php</link>
  1274. <description></description>
  1275. <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
  1276. </item>
  1277.  
  1278. <item>
  1279. <title>Expert Witness: September 2018</title>
  1280. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-09.php</link>
  1281. <description></description>
  1282. <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
  1283. </item>
  1284.  
  1285. <item>
  1286. <title>The 50 Essential Albums of 1967 [2017]</title>
  1287. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-17.php</link>
  1288. <description></description>
  1289. <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
  1290. </item>
  1291.  
  1292. <item>
  1293. <title>A Short and Happy History of Rock [1969]</title>
  1294. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/rock-69.php</link>
  1295. <description></description>
  1296. <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
  1297. </item>
  1298.  
  1299. <item>
  1300. <title>Remembering Rai &amp; Rock Troublemaker Rachid Taha</title>
  1301. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/taha-18.php</link>
  1302. <description></description>
  1303. <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
  1304. </item>
  1305.  
  1306. <item>
  1307. <title>The Village Voice (1955-2018)</title>
  1308. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/voice-18.php</link>
  1309. <description></description>
  1310. <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
  1311. </item>
  1312.  
  1313. <item>
  1314. <title>Expert Witness: August 2018</title>
  1315. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-08.php</link>
  1316. <description></description>
  1317. <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
  1318. </item>
  1319.  
  1320. <item>
  1321. <title>Robert Christgau on Aretha, the Genius Behind a Voice Unlike Any Other</title>
  1322. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/franklin-18.php</link>
  1323. <description></description>
  1324. <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
  1325. </item>
  1326.  
  1327. <item>
  1328. <title>Expert Witness: July 2018</title>
  1329. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-07.php</link>
  1330. <description></description>
  1331. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
  1332. </item>
  1333.  
  1334. <item>
  1335. <title>Expert Witness: June 2018</title>
  1336. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-06.php</link>
  1337. <description></description>
  1338. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 03:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
  1339. </item>
  1340.  
  1341. <item>
  1342. <title>Expert Witness: May 2018</title>
  1343. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-05.php</link>
  1344. <description></description>
  1345. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
  1346. </item>
  1347.  
  1348. <item>
  1349. <title>Expert Witness: April 2018</title>
  1350. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-04.php</link>
  1351. <description></description>
  1352. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
  1353. </item>
  1354.  
  1355. <item>
  1356. <title>Expert Witness: March 2018</title>
  1357. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-03.php</link>
  1358. <description></description>
  1359. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
  1360. </item>
  1361.  
  1362. <item>
  1363. <title>Expert Witness: January 2018</title>
  1364. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-01.php</link>
  1365. <description></description>
  1366. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 16:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
  1367. </item>
  1368.  
  1369. <item>
  1370. <title>Expert Witness: February 2018</title>
  1371. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2018-02.php</link>
  1372. <description></description>
  1373. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
  1374. </item>
  1375.  
  1376. <item>
  1377. <title>Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough</title>
  1378. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-fest.php</link>
  1379. <description></description>
  1380. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
  1381. </item>
  1382.  
  1383. <item>
  1384. <title>Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the 90s</title>
  1385. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-cg90s.php</link>
  1386. <description></description>
  1387. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
  1388. </item>
  1389.  
  1390. <item>
  1391. <title>Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</title>
  1392. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-cg80s.php</link>
  1393. <description></description>
  1394. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
  1395. </item>
  1396.  
  1397. <item>
  1398. <title>Going Into the City</title>
  1399. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-goitc.php</link>
  1400. <description></description>
  1401. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
  1402. </item>
  1403.  
  1404. <item>
  1405. <title>Grown Up All Wrong</title>
  1406. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-guaw.php</link>
  1407. <description></description>
  1408. <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
  1409. </item>
  1410.  
  1411. <item>
  1412. <title>Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies</title>
  1413. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-cg70s.php</link>
  1414. <description></description>
  1415. <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
  1416. </item>
  1417.  
  1418. <item>
  1419. <title>Any Old Way You Choose It</title>
  1420. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/bk-aow.php</link>
  1421. <description></description>
  1422. <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
  1423. </item>
  1424.  
  1425. <item>
  1426. <title>CG 80s: Compilations</title>
  1427. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg80/comps.php</link>
  1428. <description></description>
  1429. <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
  1430. </item>
  1431.  
  1432. <item>
  1433. <title>Expert Witness: October 2017</title>
  1434. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-10.php</link>
  1435. <description></description>
  1436. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
  1437. </item>
  1438.  
  1439. <item>
  1440. <title>Expert Witness: February 2017</title>
  1441. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-02.php</link>
  1442. <description></description>
  1443. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
  1444. </item>
  1445.  
  1446. <item>
  1447. <title>Expert Witness: September 2017</title>
  1448. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-09.php</link>
  1449. <description></description>
  1450. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
  1451. </item>
  1452.  
  1453. <item>
  1454. <title>Expert Witness: August 2017</title>
  1455. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-08.php</link>
  1456. <description></description>
  1457. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
  1458. </item>
  1459.  
  1460. <item>
  1461. <title>Expert Witness: June 2017</title>
  1462. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-06.php</link>
  1463. <description></description>
  1464. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
  1465. </item>
  1466.  
  1467. <item>
  1468. <title>Expert Witness: May 2017</title>
  1469. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-05.php</link>
  1470. <description></description>
  1471. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
  1472. </item>
  1473.  
  1474. <item>
  1475. <title>Expert Witness: April 2017</title>
  1476. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-04.php</link>
  1477. <description></description>
  1478. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
  1479. </item>
  1480.  
  1481. <item>
  1482. <title>Expert Witness: January 2017</title>
  1483. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-01.php</link>
  1484. <description></description>
  1485. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
  1486. </item>
  1487.  
  1488. <item>
  1489. <title>Expert Witness: March 2017</title>
  1490. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-03.php</link>
  1491. <description></description>
  1492. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
  1493. </item>
  1494.  
  1495. <item>
  1496. <title>2017: Dean's List</title>
  1497. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans17.php</link>
  1498. <description></description>
  1499. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
  1500. </item>
  1501.  
  1502. <item>
  1503. <title>Pazz &amp; Jop 2017: Personal, Political, and Otherwise</title>
  1504. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj17.php</link>
  1505. <description></description>
  1506. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
  1507. </item>
  1508.  
  1509. <item>
  1510. <title>Expert Witness: December 2017</title>
  1511. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-12.php</link>
  1512. <description></description>
  1513. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
  1514. </item>
  1515.  
  1516. <item>
  1517. <title>The Realest Thing You've Ever Seen</title>
  1518. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2016-10.php</link>
  1519. <description></description>
  1520. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
  1521. </item>
  1522.  
  1523. <item>
  1524. <title>CG 80s: Corrigenda</title>
  1525. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg80/corrigenda.php</link>
  1526. <description></description>
  1527. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
  1528. </item>
  1529.  
  1530. <item>
  1531. <title>CG 80s: Subjects for Further Research</title>
  1532. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg80/further.php</link>
  1533. <description></description>
  1534. <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
  1535. </item>
  1536.  
  1537. <item>
  1538. <title>Expert Witness: November 2017</title>
  1539. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2017-11.php</link>
  1540. <description></description>
  1541. <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
  1542. </item>
  1543.  
  1544. <item>
  1545. <title>Fats Domino: Born to Please</title>
  1546. <link>http://robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/domino-17.php</link>
  1547. <description></description>
  1548. <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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