Xgau Sez: June, 2026

​Dream concerts, the Smiths not reevaluated, ‘Last Critic’ still on the festival circuit, Shakira’s hips still not lying, once more to Monterey, whither the vinyl, and the sameyest great artist ever. 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.