As guitarist Nigel Tufnel despairs to director Marty DiBergi in Spinal Tap, once your amps are turned up all the way to 11, “Where do you go from there? Where?” Many songwriters stuck in a creative corner kick up the jams with a tried and true chestnut: the key change. This showy yet effective tool can underline a…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about some of our favorite songs about drinking.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about some of our favorite songs about drinking.
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
The hater: You might not know it, but comedian Sara Schaefer has produced all sorts of content you probably loved. She brought the memes and hilarity as the head of both Best Week Ever and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’s blogs, winning two Emmys for the latter. She has also written for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about some of our favorite songs about drinking.
No accomplishment in hip-hop is rarer or more celebrated than the classic debut, so the rap world was eager to welcome Kendrick Lamar’s breakthrough Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City as one in 2012. Never mind that it wasn’t actually Lamar’s first album: Good Kid announced the arrival of a major talent, and like every…
Countless indie darlings have made the jump from cred-laden buzz band to major label fixture. Just ask R.E.M., The Replacements, and Sonic Youth. A whole new generation of underground acts made the switch around the turn of the last century with Modest Mouse’s jump from Up Records to Epic occurring around the same…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about some of our favorite songs about drinking.
With a music career that spans nearly 30 years, more than 25 albums with the Pixies and alone, and too many incredible riffs to count, picking just one Frank Black song to talk about was incredibly difficult. But when The A.V. Club called upon Frank—real name Charles Thompson—to ring in another batch of One Track…
For his One Track Mind session, Frank Black—aka Black Francis, aka Charles Thompson—played his solo song “Headache” for The A.V. Club. But as a bonus, he also dipped into his considerable catalog with the Pixies, performing a version of “Silver Snail” from the band’s newest album, Indie Cindy. Enjoy!
A peculiar thing happens three-quarters of the way through “Hollywood,” the lead single from Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr.’s debut album Goon. The song starts its life as a disheartened piano ballad, with lyrics about the throes of an existential crisis, the kind that curses confessional…
Don’t call it a comeback: Modest Mouse will be the first to tell you that it never really went away in the first place. The group just stopped making records for a while, taking on the right mix of touring, soundtrack work, and home-studio construction to stave off an official hiatus.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about some of our favorite songs about drinking.
Anyone needing evidence that punk rock is just as much an American musical institution at this point as jazz or country, look no further than three-chord stalwarts Bad Religion. Often referred to as godfathers of punk, the sobriquet becomes more applicable with each passing year; perhaps the term will switch to…
This iOS endless runner game—or, in this case, endless snowboarder game—has already gotten a lot of love in the enthusiast press for its visuals. And it earns those plaudits: Playing as a snowboarder who’s trying to catch a bunch of escaped llamas, you cruise through an atmospheric landscape that features bucolic…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about songs with a cappella interludes.
This week’s question comes from copy editor Gwen Ihnat:
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