In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that concept has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth, which went to No. 1 on March 11, 1989, where it…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our songs that highlight some of our favorite guitar riffs.
In I Made You A Mixtape, we ask our favorite musicians, actors, writers, directors, or whatevers to strut their musical savvy: We pick a theme, they make us a mix.
The music of The Crystal Method seems entirely simpatico with the jagged energetic highs of its namesake drug, which makes it interesting that the band’s founders aren’t crazy about the association. Ken Jordan admitted in an interview that they came up with the joke in the early 1990s before they knew exactly how bad…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs with whistling.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs with whistling.
In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs with whistling.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs with whistling.
You may be familiar with The A.V. Club’s love of all things Frightened Rabbit, which dates back to 2008’s incredible The Midnight Organ Fight and extends through two more excellent albums, a pair of Undercover appearances (bel0w), and various interviews. You get it, we think they’re great. Well, F-Rabbit frontman…
In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
On September 26, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke put out a new solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. As is increasingly the case with Yorke’s output, interest in the music he released was in some ways secondary to the method by which he did so: The album was the first paid release for BitTorrent, Inc.’s Bundle service, a…
Although the pop singles charts are currently dominated by women, there’s a burgeoning movement of soulful male solo artists taking aim at stardom—led by a group that includes Australian folkie Vance Joy, British R&B star Sam Smith, and now the bluesy Irish singer-songwriter Hozier. Although the latter should receive…
Somewhere along the line Weezer got goofy. Well, that’s not entirely true: The group was always a little goofy. Even the group’s lionized first two albums were peppered with fumbled jokes and dopey hip-hop appropriations. But by 2005’s Make Believe, that geek humor had given way to just plain bad humor, and it began…
When Flying Lotus says You’re Dead!, he apparently means it. On “Never Catch Me,” off the musician’s new record, Kendrick Lamar raps as if in mid-rapture, tugged heavenward but clinging to earth with almost Biblical language: “And I can sing song and I can unite with you that I love, you that I like.” Rapping as…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs with whistling.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of Prince’s pair of new albums, we’re picking our favorite songs from the Purple One.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of Prince’s pair of new albums, we’re picking our favorite songs from the Purple One.
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