Robert Christgau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robert Christgau

American music journalist

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1942

Place of Birth: Greenwich Village, New York, United States

Profession: writer, reporter, music critic, journalist, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Robert Thomas Christgau (; born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.
One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop poll.
He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and was a visiting arts teacher at New York University.Christgau is known for his terse, letter-graded capsule album reviews, first published in his "Consumer Guide" columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006.
He has published three books based on those columns, beginning with Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), along with two collections of essays.
He continued to write reviews in this format for MSN Music, Cuepoint, and Noisey—Vice's music section—where they were published in his "Expert Witness" column until July 2019, when the final edition was published.
In September, he launched a paid-subscription newsletter called "And It Don't Stop", published on the email-newsletter platform Substack and featuring a monthly "Consumer Guide" column, among other writings.