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. For this installment, we’re talking about Paul McCartney’s early ’80s LPs Tug Of War and Pipes Of Peace, both of which just received…
Nathan Williams the wunderkind is no longer. Plenty removed from the combustible young agitator who was also a prolific whiz of lo-fi, bare-bones-produced garage punk, he now sports shiny major-label digs and a production budget to boot. He doesn’t seem to squander it at all, rather he uses it to bolster his poppy,…
In the run-up to the release of Deafheaven’s third album, New Bermuda, the dialogue swirling around the band reached a fever pitch. In the wake of its breakthrough sophomore album, Sunbather, the band was worshipped and scrutinized in equal measure. All this chatter was the product of its rise to fame, which included…
Although Janet Jackson is a fiercely private person, she’s always strived to make her music vulnerable—meaning her songs are conduits for frank discussions about bedroom proclivities, emotional struggles, romantic intimacy, social issues, and sexual fluidity. But on Unbreakable, her first album on her own label,…
It’s already been a massive year for the multi-talented Carrie Brownstein: With the release of Sleater-Kinney’s exhilarating No Cities To Love, a concurrent world tour, another guest stint on Transparent, and, of course, more Portlandia, you might think that she’d be keen on saying “Cacao!” and taking the rest of 2015…
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 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: Great songs in terrible movies.
Version Tracker examines how different artists have performed the same song over the years, adapting it to suit their own needs and times.
If you have any ties to the state of Minnesota, Sota Clothing is worth checking out. I stumbled across the retail site on a night when I was feeling particularly nostalgic for Duluth, the city that teenage me would travel 45 minutes to for a chance to see a movie or go shopping, and where I would later attend my first…
With its charming buildings and diverse neighborhoods, Montreal is a lovely and unique town, a little quasi-European outpost about 45 minutes from the U.S. border. Its music scene isn’t bad either, with the city hosting three major rock festivals—Pop Montreal, M For Montreal, and Osheaga—every year. This year, the…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with prominent harmonica usage.
The Dead Weather has always felt like a way for Jack White to blow off steam and take a respite from being Jack White. Although he’s an integral part of the songwriting process and adds the occasional yelping vocal, he mainly sticks to drumming and cedes the spotlight to his bandmates: Kills vocalist Alison Mosshart,…
Kurt Vile’s been carving out his own singular niche since his nascent days recording for Gulcher and Mexican Summer, releasing limited edition LPs such as Constant Hitmaker and God Is Saying To You, while still moonlighting with The War On Drugs when the former LP was released. His artistic breakthrough, along with…
Chvrches has yet to make a misstep. The Scottish trio built some buzz in 2012 by releasing tracks online, followed up with a solid EP that spring, then capitalized on its momentum with one 2013’s best albums. From there it toured relentlessly—364 shows in two years, according to its press materials—while frontwoman…
Music Complete is New Order’s best album in more than 20 years, an accomplishment that sounds more impressive than it actually is: The legendary British band’s post-1993 output has been so sporadic that it seemed at times that New Order was actually gone for good. Since 1993’s Republic, there have been just two studio…
Around the time Guy Lawrence (the older Disclosure sibling) was toddling about and before Howard Lawrence (the younger Disclosure sibling) was even conceived, many respected DJs and producers were playing unforgettable sets in underground clubs and warehouses and creating indelibly classic dance tracks. It took two…
British shoegaze band Ride was a seminal part of that movement, releasing some of its most important albums and helping create a wash of sound that would cover England (and the parts of America that loved 120 Minutes). The band recently reunited for some shows to celebrate their legacy, including the 25th anniversary…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with prominent harmonica usage.
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