Xgau Sez: July, 2026

​Once more into the Swamp Dogg doc, Mungo Jerry and Richie Valens preferences explained, AI aversion ditto, Portishead still sour times, criticism vs. whoever, Willie vs. Waylon. 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.