Robert Christgau appears in the following:
The Making of a Music Critic
Monday, February 23, 2015
Album Review: 'Runaway's Diary'
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
A Tuneful Conversation With A Sometimes-Distant God
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Album Review: 'English Oceans,' By Drive-By Truckers
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Sam Baker's 'Say Grace' Is At Once Beautiful And Broken
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sam Baker has a backstory that must be told. In 1986, at age 31, he was traveling by train in Peru when a bomb from the terrorist group Shining Path exploded right next to him. The little girl he'd been talking to was killed along with half a dozen others, ...
Aesop Rock And Kimya Dawson Showcase Their Strengths
Monday, May 20, 2013
Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock both grew up in the New York suburbs and reside in the Pacific Northwest, but they only met after Aesop sent Dawson a fan letter; they eventually evolved into a duo they call The Uncluded. Aesop Rock is a brainy alt-rapper, Kimya Dawson ...
Marc Ribot Isn't Trying To Comfort Anyone
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
After six years as a sideman for many soul veterans, Marc Ribot made his name in 1985 with Rain Dogs, the album that marked Tom Waits' permanent transition from eccentric singer-songwriter to truly weird singer-songwriter. Ribot has held down straight gigs since then, but his work has tended ...
Jonny Fritz: A Country Jester Gets Personal
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Dad Country is the ersatz debut of Jonny Fritz, but it's actually his third album: He recorded the first two under the name Jonny Corndawg. I enjoyed his 2011 album Down on the Bikini Line, but it's so much slighter, so much sillier and more risqué, that at first I ...