In 2013, Atlanta-based indie-rock act Deerhunter released its sixth studio album, Monomania, a work that left many scratching their heads. In ways both sonic and thematic, it was a significant and ragged left turn away from the shimmering, frizzy sounds that marked the group’s masterful mid-career releases Microcastle…
Davey Von Bohlen, lead singer for Maritime and former member of Cap’n Jazz and The Promise Ring, has one of those voices: simultaneously vulnerable, headstrong, world-weary, and confident, it’s so unique and expressive that it makes every song interesting. The years since Cap’n Jazz’s early-’90s heyday have made his…
Surprise record releases have become an entrenched fixture of the music world, but this one was particularly unexpected. It’s just not too often that an artist decides to debut a new album a little less than two months after dropping its last one. And yet here we are with a new record from the Baltimore-based pop duo…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our all-time favorite covers.
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: Some of our all-time favorite covers.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our all-time favorite covers.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our all-time favorite covers.
Touted as “Comic-Con for the music industry,” the first ever Wax Record Fair takes over the Capitol Records building in downtown Los Angeles on October 24 and 25. The brand new event hopes to attract casual music fans, serious collectors, and industry insiders alike by putting its focus on vinyl, the record-collecting…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with “radio” in the title.
Contemplating mortality is a favorite trope of the singer-songwriter. Per the title of City And Colour’s fifth full-length, though, what about contemplating mortality in the context of a committed relationship? In the hands (and voice) of Dallas Green, this becomes an existential, breathtaking crisis with new legs.…
Protomartyr debuted in 2012 with No Passion All Technique, but was introduced to far more people two years later with Under Color Of Official Right, released to acclaim in 2014 by Hardly Art. Its sound was anxious post-punk (thudding percussion and guitars that vacillated between airy reverb and serrated distortion),…
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with “radio” in the title.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with “radio” in the title.
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: Songs with “radio” in the title.
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with “radio” in the title.
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.
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