Xgau Sez: May, 2026

​Upgrades/downgrades, salvaging Hendrix’s guitar at Monterey Pop, listening to the Eagles, not listening to classical music, and coming to a theater near you (if you’re in D.C. or Provincetown). Read More

Robert Christgau is the self-anointed “Dean of American Rock Critics,” a sharp-tongued tastemaker who’s spent decades handing out letter grades to pop culture like a grumpy professor with a velvet ear and a vinyl stack taller than a tower. He is known for his terse, letter-graded capsule album reviews collected in his “Consumer Guide” series.