January 2019

1999 Pazz & Jop: Flak on Both Sides

Moby and Merritt vs. hitters and cheerleaders in a bad year for nerds

by Robert Christgau

January 31, 2019

1998 Pazz & Jop: La-Di-Da-Di-Di? Or La-Di-Da-Di-Da?

Soft New Flow races Big Old Beat into the racial present: The 25th (or 26th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

by Robert Christgau

January 30, 2019

1997 Pazz & Jop: The Year of No Next Big Thing

Bonbon Top 40 and a bottomless anthology supplant an old vanguard: The 24th (or 25th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

by Robert Christgau

January 29, 2019

1996 Pazz & Jop: Don’t Believe the Gripe

The death of the death of the death of the death of rock and roll

by Robert Christgau

January 28, 2019

1995 Pazz & Jop: Lost in the Soundscape

The 22nd (or 23rd) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

by Robert Christgau

January 25, 2019

1994 Pazz & Jop: Hegemony Sez Who? Does ‘Alternative Rock’ Rule or Rool?

The 21st (or 22nd) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

by Robert Christgau

January 24, 2019

Jonas Mekas: Crack the Establishment!

“I am for the Establishment of man’s spirit: man’s spirit is always in avant garde”

January 23, 2019

Jonas Mekas vs. the Beatles

“Neither good acting nor good photography can make a good movie”

January 23, 2019

When Jonas Mekas Went to Jail

According to an expert in witchcraft, magic, and sorcery, “Flaming Creatures” was an ‘excellent film.’ The cops didn’t think so.

by The Voice Archives

January 23, 2019

Jonas Mekas and Saint Marilyn Monroe

In the February 9, 1961, issue of the Voice, Jonas Mekas mused on a major studio production and the ultimate Hollywood star

January 23, 2019