From The Archives

2003 Pazz & Jop: Reasons to Bother

Finding our grooves in the year the Democrats discovered hip-hop

by Robert Christgau

February 6, 2019

2002 Pazz & Jop: Party in Hard Times

Time to take your clothes off and contemplate your impotence

by Robert Christgau

February 5, 2019

2001 Pazz & Jop: Not Just Your Old Man’s Takeover

A new cohort of standard bearers feels its oats in a world gone wrong

by Robert Christgau

February 4, 2019

2000 Pazz & Jop: Albums While They Last

Shiny round objects negotiate their own digital divide

by Robert Christgau

February 1, 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