The Smoking Gun (Free subscription) | yesterday
NOVEMBER 24--Meet Robert Christgau. The Minnesota man, 56, is facing child endangerment and drunk driving charges after he allegedly drove his car in circles while his seven-year-old grandson clung to the auto's roof. Christgau, pictured in the mug shot at right, was doing the donuts outside his Austin apartment last Thursday, according to the below probable cause statement filed...
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... to redress decades of second-class imagery on the big screen and speak to the issues of the day.Robert Christgau, The Village VoiceI'm no respecter of soundtracks, but I can count--this offers seven new songs (as many as his previous LP) plus two self-sustaining instrumentals. It's not epochal, but it comes close--maybe Mayfield writes tougher when the subject is imposed from outside...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Robert Christgau's one-line review of long defunt Minneapolis quarter Lifter Puller's final bow, Fiestas and Fiascos: "Postpunk E Street for fuckups clocking e-dollars." Frankly, we blanch...
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... for Fogerty via his web site, Facebook, and Twitter. Need some audio stimulation? Listen to Robert Christgau’s insightful review of Loudon Wainwright III’s new album, a two-CD tribute to singer and banjoist Charlie Poole called High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, over at NPR. read full article : News Roundup: Neko Case, Death Cab For Cutie, John Fogerty, Loudon Wainwright...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... voices: his singing and his working-class poetry. On “Red Roses,” wrote critic Robert Christgau, the Pogues were able to “yoke the indelible bitterness of the Irish horror to a more adaptable punk rage.” •<strong>“Rum, Sodomy & the Lash”</strong> (1985): If this isn’t their best, it’s...
