In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking songs that feature the word “hey” prominently—either in the title or in the lyrics.

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking songs that feature the word “hey” prominently—either in the title or in the lyrics.

The Internet features more than its share of negativity and snark—sometimes you’ve just gotta vent. But there’s plenty of room for love, too. With Fan Up, we ask pop-culture people we admire to tell us about something they really, really like.

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking songs that feature the word “hey” prominently—either in the title or in the lyrics.

This week’s question is from reader David Dalrymple:
What non-Christmas music do you associate with the holidays? It could be as simple as a song you first discovered around Christmastime, or from a CD that was under the tree. Or it could be a song with a theme you associate with the holidays: coming home, childhood,…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking songs that feature the word “hey” prominently—either in the title or in the lyrics.

Every year, The A.V. Club digs into our promo bins, inboxes, and Twitter feeds in an attempt, agonizing as it may be, to find the year’s least essential albums. These aren’t the worst records of the year, but rather the records whose existence marks not only the decline of the music industry, but also the decline of…

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 Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff,” which went to No. 1 on the Soul Singles chart in…

Conceptually, Classics is quintessential She & Him: The album’s 13 songs are jazz, country, and early rock ’n’ roll tunes popularized by artists such as Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, the Righteous Brothers, and Dusty Springfield. To reinforce the throwback, black-and-white-movie vibe of Classics, the duo—guitarist M.…

Before playing AC/DC’s latest offering, certain inevitable questions linger at the forefront of the mind: Will the band’s sound and direction suffer without the input and guitar work of its former creative force Malcolm Young? Is Phil Rudd’s nascent mania discernable through his kick drum? And, after 40 years…

“Miracle” is the worst track the Wu-Tang Clan has ever recorded, and it’s not even a close race. A twinkling, schmaltzy hook about (yes) “miracles” descends every minute or so to interrupt a series of by-the-numbers verses. Masta Killa doesn’t even try: “A live scene theme from a Godfather saga / A Martin Scorsese…

One of the many “highly contagious” items covered in our 2014 holiday gift guide, 7IN-83-88 is a new boxed collection of vinyl seven-inch singles from the early days of R.E.M. The set includes 11 7-inches (each in their replicated original sleeve art) of the band’s iconic output from Athens, GA between 1983 and 1989.…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking songs that feature the word “hey” prominently—either in the title or in the lyrics.

Yo La Tengo played its first official show on December 2, 1984. The group was opening for another newly formed band, Antietam, in the back room of the now-legendary Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was the same venue where Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan had first met four years earlier, and it’s where they would…

A few months ago, while editing Oliver Sava’s review of Saga #19, I got to the part about the menstruating walrus and rolled my eyes so loudly that books editor Andrea Battleground overheard me. She said that Saga was actually her favorite ongoing comic, and thus challenged, I borrowed her trade paperback of Vol. 1.…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This time around, we’re picking our favorite songs about giving thanks.

As evidenced by the successful marriage of Modern English’s “I Melt With You” to ads by Burger King, Taco Bell, and other proprietors of cheesy foodstuffs, the ’80s are chock-full of romantic ballads whose lyrics can be applied overly literally to just about any product. With that in mind, The Jesus And Mary Chain’s…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This time around, we’re picking our favorite songs about giving thanks.

Welcome to the Music Roundtable, a blatant rip-off of TV Club’s TV Roundtable feature. Here, music writers and fans discuss recent reissues, hot new releases, or just records we like. This time, we’re talking about the newly remastered reissue of Dave Matthews Band’s 1994 breakthrough, Under The Table And Dreaming.

Our friends over at Dark Matter Coffee were kind enough to help us make it through the busy holiday season by sending us five bags of coffee. Because we at The A.V. Club believe in spreading the holiday cheer—but also in murdering adorable puppets—we’re giving away 12-ounce bags of Black Blood coffee to five lucky…