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Expert Witness: Hip-Hop's Most Complete New Yorker Since Heems (or Nas) 
New in Expert Witness:
- Princess Nokia: 1992 Deluxe (Rough Trade) A
- Sheer Mag: Need to Feel Your Love (Wilsuns RC) A-
- Margo Price: All American Made (Third Man) B+
[posted by Webmaster on 2018-01-05] Expert Witness: Love Songs from (and to) the Arab World 
New in Expert Witness:
- Marcel Khalife/Mahmoud Darwish: Andalusia of Love (Nagam) A-
- Omar Souleyman: To Syria, With Love (Mad Decent) B+
- Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From the Horn of Africa (Ostinato) ***
- Boubacar Traoré: Dounia Tabolo (Lusafrica) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-12-29] Expert Witness: Some Serious Anti-Trump Music 
New in Expert Witness:
- Dawn Oberg: Nothing Rhymes With Orange (Blossom Theory) A
- Tim Heidecker: Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs (Jagjaguwar) B+
- Mavis Staples: Livin' on a High Note (Anti-) ***
- Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black (Anti-) **
- Downtown Boys: Cost of Living (Sub Pop) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-12-22] Expert Witness: Some Delta Blues Gems and Country Blues Moments 
New in Expert Witness:
- American Epic: The Best of Blues (Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) A
- 24 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's: Vol 15 (Blues Images) A-
- American Epic: The Best of Country (Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) B+
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-12-15] Expert Witness: Now That's What I Call Expert Witness with Robert Christgau! 
New in Expert Witness:
- Now That's What I Call 90s Pop (Sony Music Entertainment) A-
- Now That's What I Call Tailgate Anthems (Sony Music Entertainment) A-
- 13 Days of Xmas (Bloodshot) **
- Nick Lowe: Quality Street (Yep Roc) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-12-08] Expert Witness: Saint Etienne and St. Vincent's Admirable Charms 
New in Expert Witness:
- Saint Etienne: Home Counties (Heavenly/PIAS) A-
- St. Vincent: Masseduction (4AD) B+
- SZA: Ctrl (RCA) ***
- Rev. Sekou: In Times Like These (Thirty Tigers) ***
- The Relatives: Goodbye World (Luv N' Haight) **
- Primate Fiasco: Massachusetts Winter (self-released) **
There's also a recent interview with Christgau in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-12-01] Expert Witness: A Near-Perfect Kasai Allstars Album and Some Afrobeats 
New in Expert Witness:
- Kasai All Stars: Around Félicité (Crammed Discs) A-
- Afrobeats Hot Hits: New Urban Dance Grooves From Africa (Shanachie) B+
- Siama: Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi (self-released) ***
- Kasai Allstars: Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers (Crammed Discs) **
- Zaire 74: The African Artists (Wrasse) **
- Kasai Allstars: Congotronics 5: Beware the Fetish (Crammed Discs) **
- DRC Music: Kinshasa One Two (Warp) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-11-24] Expert Witness: Matt Berninger's Depressive Tendencies 
New in Expert Witness:
- The National: Sleep Well Beast (4AD) A-
- Deer Tick: Vol. 2 (Partisan) A-
- The Paranoid Style: Underworld U.S.A. (Bar/None) A-
- Shilpa Ray: Door Girl (Northern Spy) ***
- LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (Columbia) **
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-11-17] Expert Witness: Alt-Rock in Fraught Times 
New in Expert Witness:
- Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim (Mute) A-
- Pere Ubu: 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo (Cherryred) A-
- Howe Gelb: Future Standards (Fire) ***
- Thurston Moore: Rock and Roll Consciousness (Caroline) **
- Filthy Friends: Invitation (Kill Rock Stars) **
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-11-10] Expert Witness: The Grown-Up Feelings of A. Savage and Big Thief 
New in Expert Witness:
- A. Savage: Thawing Dawn (Dull Tools) A-
- Big Thief: Capacity (Saddle Creek) B+
- Ape Records Vol. 1 (Ape) ***
- Mitski: Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans) **
- Baby in Vain: More Nothing (Partisan) **
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-11-03] Expert Witness: A Songwriter Who Can Linger on the Word "Gerrymander" 
New in Expert Witness:
- Robt Sarazin Blake: Recitative (SameRoom) A-
- Dylan Hicks: Ad Out (Soft Launch) A-
- Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls: Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls (Blootshot) ***
- Chuck Prophet: Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (Yep Roc) **
- Thomas Anderson: My Songs Are the House I Live In (Out There) *
- Ray Wylie Hubbard: Tell the Devil . . . I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can (Bordello/Thirty Tigers) *
Also new:
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-10-27] Expert Witness: A Batch of Cover Albums 
New in Expert Witness:
- Motörhead: Under Cöver (Silver Lining Music) A-
- Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams (Slate Creek) A-
- Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison (Ace) ***
- Ryan Adams: 1989 (Blue Note/Pax Am) **
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-10-20] Expert Witness: 'American Epic,' Americana, and an Epic 
New in Expert Witness:
- American Epic: The Collection (Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) A
- Celebrate Ornette (Song X) A-
- Grateful Dead: Crimson White & Indigo (Rhino) ***
- Van Morrison: . . . It's Too Late to Stop Now . . . Volumes II, III, IV & DVD (Legacy) **
- Grateful Dead: Cornell 5/8/77 (Rhino) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-10-13] Expert Witness: The Blended Flavors of Two New West African Releases 
New in Expert Witness:
- The Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (World Music Network) A
- Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet: Ladilikan (World Circuit) A-
- Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa: Fangnawa Experience (Strut) ***
- Kondi Band: Salone (Strut) ***
- Simo Lagnawi: The Gnawa Berber (Riverboat) **
- The Rough Guide to African Blues (World Music Network) **
Some old pieces not previously mentioned here:
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-09-29] Expert Witness: Gogol Bordello's Search for a "Higher Self" 
New in Expert Witness:
- Gogol Bordello: Seekers and Finders (Cooking Vinyl) A-
- Umphrey's McGee: Zonkey (Nothing Too Fancy) A-
- Hard Working Americans: We're All in This Together (Melvin/Thirty Tigers) A-
Also new:
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-09-22] Expert Witness: Some Bright Australians and an Indie-Rocker's Upswing 
New in Expert Witness:
- Rolling Blackouts C.F.: Talk Tight (Sub Pop) A
- Fred Thomas: Changer (Polyvinyl) A-
- Rolling Blackouts C.F.: The French Press (Sub Pop) B+
- Walter Martin: Arts & Leisure (Ile Flottante) ***
- Walter Martin: My Kinda Music (Ile Flottante) **
- Fred Thomas: All Are Saved (Polyvinyl) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-09-15] Expert Witness: Fat Tony's Realism and an Abundance of Mello Music 
New in Expert Witness:
- Fat Tony: MacGregor Park (self-released) A-
- L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae: The Night Took Us in Like Family (Mello Music) A-
- Stik Figa: Central Standard Time (Mello Music Group) **
- L'Orange & Stik Figa: The City Under the City (Mello Music Group) **
- L'Orange & Kool Keith: Time? Astonishing! (Mello Music Group) **
- L'Orange & Mr. Lif: The Life and Death of Scenery (Mello Music Group) *
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-09-08] Expert Witness: Swet Shop Boys, Grime Luminaries, and a Reggae Newcomer 
New in Expert Witness:
- Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere (Customs) A-
- Swet Shop Boys: Sufi La (Customs) A-
- Wiley: Godfather (self-released) ***
- Dizzee Rascal: Raskit (Dirtee Stank/Island) **
- Wiley: 100% Publishing (Big Dada) **
- Chronixx: Chronology (Virgin) **
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-09-01] Expert Witness: The Soul and Fury of Hamell on Trial and Algiers 
New in Expert Witness:
- Hamell on Trial: Tackle Box (New West) A
- Algiers: The Underside of Power (Matador) A-
- The Isley Brothers/Santana: Power of Peace (Legacy) ***
- Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (ESP-Disk) **
- Garland Jeffreys: 14 Steps to Harlem (Luna Park) **
- Living Colour: Shade (Megaforce) *
Robert Christgau contributed to both of these, after announcement
that the Village Voice will no longer publish on paper:
[posted by Webmaster on 2017-08-25] Expert Witness: Waxahatchee's Brilliant New Anger 
New in Expert Witness:
- Waxahatchee: Out in the Storm (Merge) A
- Beth Ditto: Fake Sugar (Virgin) A-
- Paramore: After Laughter (Fueled by Ramen) **
- Valerie June: The Order of Time (Concord) *
- Waxahatchee: Ivy Tripp (Merge) *
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