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A rock critic since 1967, Robert Christgau worked at *Esquire,* *The Village Voice*, and *Newsday* before going fylltime at *The Voice*, where he worked from 1974 till 2006. He has published three collections based on his Consumer Guide columns, and has by now reviewed well over 12,000 albums from across the spectrum of popular music. His Harvard University Press essay collection, *Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists From Vaudeville to Techno*, appeared in 1998, and his 1973 collection, *Any Old Way You Choose It*, was reprinted by Cooper Square Press in 2000. Christgau has freelanced at dozens of publications. He is currently a senior critic at *Blender* and a regular contributor to NPR's *All Things Considered.* The Consumer Guide column he began in 1969 now goes up monthly at MSN Networks. Christgau has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Richmond College, the New School, and NYU, where he was an adjunct in the English and journalism departments for most of the '90s. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the history of popular music in 1987 and in 2002 was a senior fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program, on whose national board he now sits. Among his proudest achievements is Adjunct of the Year Remmy the Clive Davis department's students awarded him in 2006.
