for all screenings
Director
Matty Wishnow
Producers
Paul Lovelace, Ben Wu
Editor
Paul Lovelace
Cinematographer
Ben Wu
Contact
Sales: Matt Burke, Submarine Entertainment matt@submarine.com; Press: Sheila Kenny, Right On! PR rightonsheila@gmail.com
Robert Christgau is a pioneering force in music criticism. The self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics, he helped invent modern rock criticism in 1967 while covering the Monterey Pop Festival for Esquire, then redefined it in 1969 with his Consumer Guide at The Village Voice—letter-graded capsule reviews that would total more than 18,000 over five decades. He continues the practice today on Substack, where he has been a bestselling author since 2019.
A contributor to Rolling Stone, Creem, Spin, and The New York Times, Christgau made his greatest impact at The Village Voice as both writer and editor. In the ’70s, when pop music was dominated by Fleetwood Mac and Billy Joel (who disliked Christgau almost as much as Christgau disliked him), he championed the punk emerging from CBGB alongside the funk of George Clinton and the soul of Al Green. He nurtured generations of gifted critics, including Greg Tate, Colson Whitehead, Ann Powers, Joe Levy, Chuck Eddy, Nelson George, and Eric Weisbard.
Now in his eighties, Bob remains as sharp as ever, writing with the same vigor, concision, and craft. From Thelonious Monk to James Brown, from the Ramones to Sleater-Kinney, from Aretha Franklin to Olivia Rodrigo, from Second Avenue to Soweto—no writer has considered pop music with greater force or flair than Robert Christgau.
Matty Wishnow is a serial entrepreneur, author of Listening for Growth, and documentary film director. Previously, he was the founder of Insound—the internet’s first record store—as well as Clearhead, one of Austin’s fastest-growing companies and best places to work. Matty spends his time with his wife and three children between Austin, TX, and Waitsfield, VT.