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Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com.
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Having chosen to watch a documentary to help my wife and I go to sleep a week or so ago, I ended up so moved and impressed that I felt compelled to spread the news about the late anthropologist Jane Goodall's "famous last words."
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A Compelling Document of Sheer Goodness
'Famous Last Words: Dr.Jane Goodall' (2025)
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Even scarier (I hope) than Trump's third-term dreams, ProPublica (via TPM) outlines how the North Carolina Supreme Court has been rejiggered to turn it sharply right, with special attention to those uppity nonwhite voters. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biblica...
‘Biblical Justice’: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
This post first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses...
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I'm not webwise enough to follow or fully comprehend the ins and outs of online election trolling. But this Marcy Wheeler piece on rightwing information distortion posted by Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo is recommended to those capable of fully grasping it talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/witho...
Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump
On July 8, something happened to Donald Trump that I’ve not seen...
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🚨Officer Michael Fanone keeping it short and sweet. ✊🏼
I watch Lawrence O'Donnell a lot, but his first 20 minutes tonight was breathtaking: an out-and-out attack not just on Trump but on the media he manipulates INCLUDING NOT JUST CNN BUT MSNBC ITSELF. Carola's under the weather and I'm a tech doofus. But if anybody's taped it let me know.
We have only one child, an adopted Honduran-born daughter who has somehow just turned 40. To our amazement she was weeping by the time it ended. Reason: it reminded her of her beloved grandma Hope, a Mayflower descendant who I adored myself and who believe it or not did evoke Goodall's goodness.
Having chosen to watch a documentary to help my wife and I go to sleep a week or so ago, I ended up so moved and impressed that I felt compelled to spread the news about the late anthropologist Jane Goodall's "famous last words."
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A Compelling Document of Sheer Goodness
'Famous Last Words: Dr.Jane Goodall' (2025)
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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo asked his readers to send him No Kings Day photos. Lighten your spirits for a few minutes by checking them out. However temporarily, we do still have a sense of humor. talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/phot...
Photos: ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump Protests See Massive Turnout Across the Country
An estimated 7 million people turned out Saturday at more than 2,700...
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Sixty years of great music, the statistically decisive rise of the CD, francais vs. anglais, grading A-to-E, Gratitude, and Geese inspire me to fill out the October 2025 edition of Xgau Sez in my Substack whosawhatsis And It Don't Stop
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Xgau Sez: October, 2025
Let us praise first-rate collections of first-rate songs but let us skip the twenty-four albums awarded some variation of the E grade. Also: albums vs. songs, Mary J. Blige, Geese, and chansons.
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Sixty years of great music, the statistically decisive rise of the CD, francais vs. anglais, grading A-to-E, Gratitude, and Geese inspire me to fill out the October 2025 edition of Xgau Sez in my Substack whosawhatsis And It Don't Stop
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Xgau Sez: October, 2025
Let us praise first-rate collections of first-rate songs but let us skip the twenty-four albums awarded some variation of the E grade. Also: albums vs. songs, Mary J. Blige, Geese, and chansons.
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This month's And It Don't Stop hands the ball to my wife Carola Dibbell, who as a transplanted Londoner way back in 1968 was knocked out of her socks by this American singer she'd never heard of named Janis Joplin. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
The Big Lookback: Janis Joplin
An excerpt from Carola Dibbell's memoir "Young Me: Travels With an Old Self 1967-1970"
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This month's And It Don't Stop hands the ball to my wife Carola Dibbell, who as a transplanted Londoner way back in 1968 was knocked out of her socks by this American singer she'd never heard of named Janis Joplin. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
The Big Lookback: Janis Joplin
An excerpt from Carola Dibbell's memoir "Young Me: Travels With an Old Self 1967-1970"
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This month's edition of Christgau's Consumer Guide features a link to Peter Stampfel's 23 pages of notes to "Song Shards," his highly recommended single-disc assembly of 66 jingles, some of which also count as hymns. I strongly suggest you check it out.
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Consumer Guide: September, 2025
Soul jingles meet ad jingles, "Dumb Luck” rhymes with “IDGAF,” three L.A. sisters savor sex and tunes, and the Mahotella Queens shine on their own.
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This month's edition of Christgau's Consumer Guide features a link to Peter Stampfel's 23 pages of notes to "Song Shards," his highly recommended single-disc assembly of 66 jingles, some of which also count as hymns. I strongly suggest you check it out.
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Consumer Guide: September, 2025
Soul jingles meet ad jingles, "Dumb Luck” rhymes with “IDGAF,” three L.A. sisters savor sex and tunes, and the Mahotella Queens shine on their own.
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I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...
A Really Great Doc
Sacha Jenkins, ‘Sunday Best’ (2025)
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I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...
A Really Great Doc
Sacha Jenkins, ‘Sunday Best’ (2025)
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Dug out some early not actually hyperbolic contextualization of the insufficiently legendary Mekons for this week's Big Lookback at my Substack newspiece And It Don't Stop.

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The Big Lookback: The Mekons
"The Curse of the Mekons," from "The Village Voice," 1991
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