New in Expert Witness:

• American Honey (UME download) A
• Travis Scott: Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (Epic) B+
• Dreezy: No Hard Feelings (Interscope) ***
• T.I.: Us or Else (T.I./Roc Nation) ***

Also new:

• Confessions of a Hillary Supporter: 'It's Not Like We Can Breathe Easy'

Also, here's a recent interview with Christgau:

• Jenny Eliscu: Prolific Music Critic Robert Christgau Knows What He Likes (and Hates)

New in Expert Witness:

• Youssou N'Dour: Senegaal Rekk (unknown) A
• 75 Dollar Bill: Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (Thin Wrist) A-
• Vieux Kanté: The Young Man's Harp (Sterns) A-
• 75 Dollar Bill: Wooden Bag (Other Music) ***
• Bombino: Azel (Nonesuch) **

Also new:

• Stranger Songs: The Music of Leonard Cohen in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

New in Expert Witness:

• Drive-By Truckers: American Band (ATO) A
• Dogbrain: Blue Dog (dogbrain) B+
• Watkins Family Hour: Watkins Family Hour (Thirty Tigers) ***
• The Handsome Family: Unseen (Carrot Top) ***
• The Haymarket Squares: Light It Up (The Haymarket Squares) **
• Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch) *

New in Expert Witness:

• M.I.A.: AIM (Interscope) A
• Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: This Unruly Mess I've Made (self-released) A-
• Yoni & Geti: Testarossa (Joyful Noise) B+

Also added to the website: Sandra Newman's novel, The Country of Ice Cream Star (July 2015).

New in Expert Witness:

• Blood Orange: Freetown (Domino) A-
• Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe (Domino) B+
• Frank Ocean: Blond/Blonde (self-released) B+

New in Expert Witness:

• Vince Staples: Prima Donna (Def Jam) A-
• Young Thug: Jeffery (300/Atlantic) A-
• Young Thug: Slime Season 3 (300/Atlantic) **
• Young Thug: I'm Up (300/Atlantic) **
• Rae Sremmurd: SremmLife 2 (Eardrum/Interscope) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Britney Spears: Glory (Deluxe Edition) (RCA) A-
• Tegan and Sara: Love You to Death (Warner Bros.) A-
• Bibi Bourelly: Free the Real (Pt. #1) (Circa 13/Def Jam) **
• Ravyn Lenae: Moon Shoes (Atlantic) **
• Empress Of: Me (Terrible) *
• Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob (Warner Bros.) *

New in Expert Witness:

• The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Jazz (World Music Network) A-
• Joi Sound System: Joi Sound System (RealWorld) B+
• Khun Narin Electric Phin Band: II (Innovative Leisure) **
• Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express: Junun (Nonesuch) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo: Siriá (Analog Africa) A-
• Senegambia Rebel (Voodoo Rebel) A-
• Sonido Gallo Negro: Sendero Mistico (Glitterbeat) **
• Son Palenque: Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers (Vampi Soul) **

New in Expert Witness:

• The Paranoid Style: Rolling Disclosure (Bar/None) A-
• Pylon: Live (Chunklet) B+
• Pet Shop Boys: Super (Kobalt) **
• The Dandy Warhols: This Machine (The End) **
• Garbage: Strange Little Birds (Vagrant) *
• The Dandy Warhols: Distortland (Dine Alone) *

Robert Christgau and Carola Dibbell will be at the Queens Book Festival on Sunday, August 7, at Kaufman Studios, Astoria (R train to Astoria):

• Carola will be on a panel at 12 PM called "Expanding the Landscape of Fantasy and YA Imagination" with Daniel Jose Older and Andrew J Peters, moderated by Dominique Taylor -- Panel 2 on the YA stage

• Bob will be on a panel at 1 PM called "Memoirs and the New York Scene" with graffiti artist Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro -- Panel 3 at Queens Literary Salon.

By the way, the website has been updated, with all EW reviews up through July 2016 added to the CG database, other recent articles (subject to negotiated timelock delays), and some old stuff that Scott Manzler transcribed and sent in (see What's New. Archival material largely depends on fans doing the digging, so thanks again.

New in Expert Witness:

• Lori McKenna: The Bird & the Rifle (CN/Thirty Tigers '16) A-
• Lori McKenna: Lorraine (lorimckenna.com '11) A-
• Lori McKenna: Massachusetts (Liz Rose Music '13) B+
• Lori McKenna: Bittertown (Signature Sounds '04) ***
• Lori McKenna: Numbered Doors (Liz Rose Music '14) **
• Lori McKenna: Heart Shaped Bullet Hole (self-released '12) *

Also new at BN Review:

• 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded, by John Savage: book review

New in Expert Witness:

• Leland Sundries: Music for Outcasts (L'Echiquier) A-
• Walter Salas-Humara: Explodes and Disappears (Sonic Pyramid) B+
• Blake Mills: Heigh Ho (Verve) ***
• The Kropotkins: Portents of Love (Mulatta) ***
• Corb Lund: Things That Can't Be Undone (New West) **
• The Two-Gentleman Band: Two at a Time (Bean-Town) **
• The Rough Guide to Americana (World Music Network) **
• Blake Mills: Break Mirrors (I) *
• The Yawpers: American Man (Bloodshot) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Vic Mensa: There's Alot Going On (self-released) A-
• Joey Purp: iiiDrops (self-released) A-
• Vic Mensa: Innanetape (self-released) ***
• DJ Shadow: The Mountain Will Fall (Mass Appeal) ***
• Clams Casino: 32 Levels (Columbia) **

New in Expert Witness:

• Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial (Matador) A
• The Julie Ruin: Hit Reset (Hardly Art) A-
• Tame Impala: Currents (Interscope) **
• Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Style (Matador) **
• Big Thief: Masterpiece (Saddle Creek) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Brandy Clark: Big Day in a Small Town (Warner Bros) A-
• Carrie Underwood: Storyteller (Arista) A-
• Eric Church: Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville) ***
• Carrie Underwood: Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (Arista Nashville) **
• Sam Hunt: Montevallo (MCA Nashville) *
• Tim McGraw: Sundown Heaven Town (Big Machine) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Paul Simon: Stranger to Stranger (Concord) A-
• Plus Sized Dan: Plus Sized Dan With Marshall Ruffin (Plus Sized Dan) A-
• Benjamin Dean Wilson: Small Talk (Tapete) **
• Veda Hille: Love Waves (Canadian Council of the Arts/Conseil des arts du Canada) **
• Benji Hughes: Songs in the Key of Animals (Merge) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book (self-released) A
• Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers) A-
• Mr. Lif: Don't Look Down (Mello Music) **
• Lecrae: Church Clothes 3 (self-released) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: A Man Alive (Ribbon) A-
• Heartsrevolution: Ride or Die (Owsla) A-
• White Lung: Paradise (Domino) A-
• Heron Oblivion: Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop) ***
• The Kills: Ash & Ice (Domino) *

New in Expert Witness:

• The Rough Guide to South African Jazz (World Music Network '16) A-
• Township Swing Jazz Vol. 1 (Harlequin) B+
• Debo Band: Ere Gobez (FPE) B+
• Debo Band: Debo Band (Next Ambiance '12) ***
• The Rough Guide to South African Jazz (World Music Network '00) *

New in Expert Witness:

• Buddy Miller: Cayamo Sessions at Sea (New West) A-
• Margo Price: Midwest Farmer's Daughter (Third Man) A-
• Brandi Carlile: The Firewatcher's Daughter (ATO) A-
• Cam: Untamed (Arista) **
• Lisa Said: First Time, Long Time (lisasaid.com) **
• Kelsea Ballerini: The First Time (Black River Entertainment) *
• Lucinda Williams: The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20) *

A minor update of the website includes Christgau's 2015 Dean's List. This dates from early April, so doesn't include later 2015 picks from Kyle, Dawn Oberg, and The Internet.