Consumer Guide: August, 2026

​Reviews of Emperor X, Margo Price, Neil Young, Low Cut Connie, R.A.P. Ferreira, Lalu, Mary Lee’s Corvette, Paul McCartney, Glenn Morrow, Hemlocke Springs, Tipps and Obermiller, and more. 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.