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...would be easy to write Air off as an easy listening duo—Robert Christgau once wrote of the band that he “remembers when easy listening was worth hating”—and it would seem that the duo themselves are not exempt from making this mistake. The line between ironic kitsch and muzack can be a thin one, and at times on Monday Air began to sound more like intermission than the feature presentation...
Veteran music critic Robert Christgau said once of Sleater-Kinney that, “The reason that they are as important as they are is that they’re not a lesbian band in any kind of limiting or definitive way.” Referring to the fact that despite riot grrrl’s genesis as a way for girls to play guitar whether they were “good” at it or not, Sleater-Kinney’s musical virtuosity transcends politics. But the band contains multitudes, and predictably enough, refuses to choose among characterizations...
Five albums later, Sleater-Kinney (Sleater rhymes with crater) is out of storage. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau declares that "they could no more make a bad album than the Rolling Stones in 1967." Journalists routinely describe them as the world's greatest rock-'n'-roll band, a tag once reserved for the Stones. Big record labels have vainly courted them for years. Their new album, All Hands on the Bad One, contains some of the best songs of their career. For all the band's exposure on MTV's 120 Minutes and MTV2, Brownstein is in even heavier rotation...
IMPERIAL BEDROOM is a remarkable album, not in what it accomplishes for today, but in what it promises for the future. Of all Costello albums, it is easily the most inaccessible, as Elvis oftentimes suffers from that dreaded malady diagnosed by Robert Christgau as the "Jackson Browne syndrome"--boringness. You must listen to this record repeatedly and almost painstakingly to appreciate the full flavor of the minutiae and detail Costello has packed. It's worth the effort, but you have to sweat mighty hard to get there...
...turned-serious-actor David Bowie; the best of which is a wide edition called Bowie: An Illustrated Record. The Book of Rock Lists by Rolling Stone critics Dave Marsh and Kevin Stern is chock-full of lists of groups with the worst names, the best clothes and other minutiae. Christgau's Record Guide by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau describes--and grades--the rock albums of the past decade. And The Compleat Beatles, a $13.95 compendium of sheet music, interviews and pictures, makes a wonderful goft for the avid Beatle fan, though not for the relative who didn...