Email Author Robert Christgau

2006 Stories by Robert Christgau

• Devils We Know

  published August 8, 2006

  Pick Hits Todd Snider The Devil You Know ... More >>

• Sensualistic, Polytheistic

  published July 25, 2006

  "So everybody gets makeup, OK? You look dead on TV without it." Back in the Conan greenroom from a Camel-stoked walk to the Hilton with... More >>

• A Month on the Town

  published July 18, 2006

  In the 65th year of my life on this planet, I went out to see live music every night (or day) of June. The main reason I conceived this... More >>

• History Lessons

  published July 11, 2006

  Pick Hits The Klezmatics Wonder Wheel: Lyrics... More >>

• All in the Family

  published June 13, 2006

  Pick Hits The Rough Guide to Planet Rock World... More >>

• Rather Exhilarating

  published May 30, 2006

  Forget "edge," or whatever the edgy are calling it these days. I wish we could forget their non-youth in the bargain, but that wheeze will remain... More >>

• Radicals of the Moment

  published May 16, 2006

  Pick Hits The Streets The Hardest Way to Make an... More >>

• Grant McLennan, 1958–2006

  published May 9, 2006

  Grant McLennan was in a grand mood May 6, with every reason to believe he had his best work ahead of him. Renowned and beloved though the... More >>

• Explorations in Mixtape Nation

  published May 2, 2006

  It gets me every time, and there's barely any music to it. Mainly it's a naked voice—mellow, soft-edged, playfully playground, flowing liquid... More >>

• Glossing Big-Tymers

  published May 2, 2006

  This is billed as an essay collection, a form book publishers despise and I love. But it isn't really—he's a master of the ubiquitously... More >>

• Dear Mr. President

  published April 18, 2006

  PICK HITS GHOSTFACE KILLAH Fishscale (Def Jam) With... More >>

• Music

  published April 4, 2006

  The entire Electric Light Orchestra catalog is now in reissue, with Randy Newman doing the notes. But you know better. You know Jeff Lynne's... More >>

• Lost in the Lonely Crowd

  published April 4, 2006

  Placebo are a cheesy British goth or glam trio of no likely historical consequence who will happily prove whatever you want them to prove. Those... More >>

• Radical Comfort

  published March 21, 2006

  Pick Hits THE DAVID S. WARE QUARTETS Live in the... More >>

• Ed's Not Dead

  published March 7, 2006

  Ed Hamell isn't much of a bandleader on record, or tunesmith either. Nor are his lyrics perfect—as a distant supporter turned flat-out fan, I... More >>

• Musicology

  published March 7, 2006

  The brick-and-mortar Brill Building is still there, but for decades it's been a metaphor—for an expediently teen-oriented songwriting and... More >>

• Old-Fashioned Amenities

  published February 21, 2006

  Pick Hits BELL ORCHESTRE Recording a Tape the... More >>

• Rewriting History

  published February 7, 2006

  "While many of the songs on this collection never saw any chart action, they're just as good as the ones that did," insists Sheryl Farber, one of... More >>

• Reading With Guitar

  published February 7, 2006

  Sporting jeans, plenty of eye makeup, and bling on her ring finger, Jen Trynin brought a guitar to her first headline gig here in nearly a decade,... More >>

• Hatbox Hits

  published February 7, 2006

  Side 1/Track 3. Chiffons: "Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me)" They love each other, he is not no good. That... More >>

• Forever Young

  published January 31, 2006

  GOLDEN AFRIQUE VOL. 1 (Network) N'Dour-Keita-Baobab warhorses are few on a Deutschmark-pegged double that homes in on... More >>

• Listening in Real Time

  published January 24, 2006

  It is 2045 and the protagonist of Bruce Sterling's 1998 novel Distraction, a young pol named Oscar Valparaiso who happens to be a clone,... More >>

• Dean's List

  published January 24, 2006

  Albums 1 Kanye West Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) 16 2 The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara (World Music... More >>

• A Hot Little Weirdo

  published January 10, 2006

  "She's famous for wiggling her bum," observed a British tab before excitedly revealing that the Colombian pop goddess Shakira "has a reported IQ... More >>

• Music

  published January 10, 2006

  Since Yo La Tengo's discographical accomplishments begin with their mastery of their own song titles, I assumed and fervently hoped that this... More >>