Robert Christgau
American music critic; long-time Village Voice critic, author of the Consumer Guide.
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- Robert Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist, born in New York City in 1942.
- He was chief music critic and a senior editor at The Village Voice, where his Consumer Guide ran from 1969 to 2006.
- He created the Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.
- His letter-graded capsule reviews were collected in three decade volumes.
- He writes the Substack newsletter And It Don’t Stop, launched in 2019.
Key facts
- Born
- 18 April 1942, Greenwich Village, New York City1
- The Village Voice
- Chief music critic and senior editor; Consumer Guide columns from 1969 to 2006, when the paper fired him1
- Created
- The Pazz & Jop critics poll1
- Books
- Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981); Christgau’s Record Guide: The ’80s (1990); Christgau’s Consumer Guide: Albums of the ’90s (2000)1
- After the Voice
- Consumer Guide reviews for MSN Music, Cuepoint and Noisey (“Expert Witness”) until July 20191
- Newsletter
- And It Don’t Stop on Substack, from September 2019, with a monthly Consumer Guide1
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