The Last Critic

Sixty years & a million records ago, Robert Christgau invented Rock music criticism. Anyone who has ever read or written a Pop music review has been influenced by Christgau, who canonized legends from The Ramones to Public Enemy & infuriated icons from Lou Reed to Billy Joel. Now in his eighties, Bob is still at it—amazingly with the same vigor, wit, concision and craft that has defined his expansive career. But in a world where albums are irrelevant, where print is dead & where algorithms have eclipsed critics we are forced to ask: What happens next—for Bob, but also for all music criticism? Is this the end of something? Is Robert Christgau the last critic?

Cast

Robert Christgau Randy Newman Boots Riley

Colson Whitehead

Thurston Moore

Joe Levy

Amanda Petrusich

yasi salek

Greil Marcus

Ann Powers

Rob Sheffield

Kelefa Sanneh

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