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Xgau Sez: November, 2025
What's in a name, live vs. recorded, tuneful vs. melodic, Pulnoc at P.S. 122, a lost Clash cassette, and a half-century-plus of delightful rhetoric.
Nov 26
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The Big Lookback: Todd Snider
"Preaching Agnosticism (With Laugh Lines)," from "The Barnes & Noble Review," April 30, 2012
Nov 17
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Consumer Guide: November, 2025
Shameless beauty track after track, an inspirational Afropop surprise, mood pieces suitable for the despondent historical moment, and a country album…
Nov 12
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At Home With Peggy Seeger
From her first solo album in 1955 at 19 to her Last Farewell tour earlier this year at 90, Peggy Seeger has sung with effervescence, power, and a…
Nov 5
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Georgia Christgau
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A Compelling Document of Sheer Goodness
'Famous Last Words: Dr.Jane Goodall' (2025)
Oct 22
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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…
Oct 15
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Consumer Guide: October, 2025
Nearly half an hour of covers that qualify as beautiful, a remarkably warm and rich love album, facing down this grim moment with perky bad-assness, and…
Oct 8
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The Big Lookback: Janis Joplin
An excerpt from Carola Dibbell's memoir "Young Me: Travels With an Old Self 1967-1970"
Sep 23
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Xgau Sez: September, 2025
African American science fiction, Eno before and after rocking, where (or who) in the world is Stephen Malkmus, first musical loves, variants of the…
Sep 17
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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.
Sep 10
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A Really Great Doc
Sacha Jenkins, ‘Sunday Best’ (2025)
Sep 3
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Xgau Sez: August, 2025
Thoughts on AI, advice to young critic, the Angry Samoans as dinner music, "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" as ASMR, the road to humane politics, and 21 Louis…
Aug 20
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Consumer Guide: August, 2025
Kentucky road dog goes global/cosmic, no longer pure heroine has erotic adventures, Afro-prop variants assembled into a congruent groove, and gifted…
Aug 13
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The Big Lookback: The Mekons
"The Curse of the Mekons," from "The Village Voice," 1991
Jul 30
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