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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Christgau’s Consumer Guide Premieres at MSN

posted by on December 10 at 11:04 AM

As I mentioned last week, Robert Christgau’s Consumer Guide—the legendary, letter-graded album-review column that many of us have been reading for as long as we can remember, the fate of which has been up in the air since the idiotic dismissal of Christgau from the Village Voice—will continue at Microsoft’s music site, where the debut installment landed this week.

Since the column’s been on hiatus since late summer, he’s playing a bit of catch-up. Among the winners: OutKast (he’s a staunch Idlewild defender), the Hold Steady, and Bob Dylan (whose Modern Times earns that Consumer Guide rarity, an A plus, making Dylan the first artist to get double-whammy top grades with two consecutive studio albums since the New York Dolls in ‘73/’74.) Among the losers: The Who, North Mississippi All-Stars, and my beloved Scissor Sisters.

Check out the whole thing here and look for new installments every other month.

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