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The 2010 Grammy Live Blog: Where Puns Happen

by Ryan Dombal and Sean Fennessey

August 5, 2024

From The Archives

2004 Pazz & Jop: Freedom for Every-Which-Where!

Hey hey hey, a serious uptick in the Republic of Crunk Guitar

by Robert Christgau

February 7, 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

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

Five Years In, Hearing the Voices of Black Lives Matter

A Jay-Z documentary on Trayvon Martin and several memoirs look back on the origins of the new civil rights movement

by Joshunda Sanders

July 30, 2018

Real Life Rock Top 10: Rebounds, Time Outs, and the Carters at the Louvre

by Greil Marcus

June 25, 2018

Have the Grammys Finally Fixed Their Voting Problem? We’ll Find Out Sunday

by Kelsey McKinney

January 26, 2018

Personal, Political, and Otherwise: King Kendrick Rules Pazz & Jop

by Robert Christgau

January 22, 2018

Jay-Z Just Released an All-Black, Star-Studded “Friends” Remake

August 4, 2017

The Ten Best Dishes at Barclays Center

April 13, 2015