Somewhere nearby you’ll find 1989’s cash crop, the list of 40 albums that has long been the leading export of the Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll. Give it the once-over — you’ll be glad you did. Judiciously ...

Long before the Internet even existed, the Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop music poll opened its pages to hundreds of critics across the country, tallying their votes, publishing their fragmentary ...

This year, over 500 Pazz + Jop voters submitted their top ten albums and singles. With albums, they have 100 points to divide among their top ten picks, with each entry receiving no more than 30 ...

Famously, Nirvana’s major-label debut in 1991 was only expected by David Geffen Company to sell about 100,000 albums, tops. That’s about how much indie godfathers Sonic Youth sold for DGC with their ...

Unlike tonight's Grammys telecast, in which prizes are awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the annual "Pazz & Jop" rankings are determined by music critics. The Village ...

“…Yet out of this morass of often contradictory special interests a consensus of sorts has formed around one album: Kanye West’s ‘Late Registration ...

As the Village Voice’s 41st Pazz & Jop Critics Poll makes clear, Kanye West is the most gifted popular musician of our time. This may sound like empty, generalized hyperbole, and it is. But nothing ...

You know the Oscars, the Tonys, and the Grammys -- but as awards season looms, here's a prize you may not have heard of: the "Pazz & Jop Critic's Poll," published by the New York alternative weekly ...

The results are in, and there are a few quirky choices among the bunch — maybe even a snub or two. But regardless of who made the cut, you can be damn sure that much speculation and dissection will ...

Just when you thought we were done with 2010 lists, the Village Voice went and published the results of their 38th annual Pazz & Jop poll. This year it combined the votes of 708 music critics, did ...

Kanye West, Cee Lo Green top 2010 Pazz and Jop critics' poll Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos; Landmark/PR PhotosRemember 2010? It seems so long ago now, but the year in music is never completely ...

Every year, the Village Voice polls a shit-ton of music critics, ex-critics, part-timers, and bloggers for its annual Pazz & Jop music critics' poll, soliciting top-10 lists of albums and singles. The ...