In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our favorite songs with “year” in the title.

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our favorite songs with “year” in the title.

If the name Ashley Monroe sounds familiar to you, then maybe it’s because the country singer/songwriter has been making big waves in the music scene this year. Or, perhaps, you may have heard her excellent Holiday Undercover, which debuted on this very site mere hours ago. Monroe has had a massive 2015 thanks to the…

As one of country’s music’s crossover stars, Ashley Monroe is adept at mixing the classic and the contemporary, as evinced by her pair of Grammy nominations for her third album, The Blade. For this installment of Holiday Undercover she offered a take on “River” from Joni Mitchell’s iconic 1971 album, Blue. The song…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our favorite songs with “year” in the title.

Version Tracker examines how different artists have performed the same song over the years, adapting it to suit their own needs and times.

Though it gets vastly overshadowed by other genres, musical theater remains an important part of the music scene, with composers and performers doing work that’s just as exciting or meaningful as their equivalents in the pop music space. Given how difficult they are to see for those who live far from Broadway, most…

I’ve been a coffee addict for a long time, but I only recently became a coffee snob. That’s how I got into the AeroPress method of coffee brewing. It’s not the most aesthetically pretty of the coffee-brewing methods—managing editor Laura M. Browning correctly opined that it has all the charm of medical equipment—but…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our very own holiday HateSongs. This piece originally ran in 2015, though its message is timeless.

Like all the coolest bass players, Jenny Lee Lindberg came to the instrument late. Inspired by dance, her first love, she began playing at 19 and quickly helped the L.A. foursome Warpaint develop its sound: sensual, somnambulant post-punk, like Bananarama gone zombie. On her solo debut, Lindberg sheds her surname and…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our very own holiday HateSongs.

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our very own holiday HateSongs.

Grindcore made its first splash outside its insular bubble with Napalm Death’s 1987 debut, Scum, which includes the one-and-a-fraction-second song “You Suffer,” a favorite of iconic BBC DJ John Peel. The terse, brutal cuts on Scum set the tone for decades of extreme metal to come, and tense opener “Multinational…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

In The New Christmas Canon, The A.V. Club looks beyond Rudolph’s nose and Zuzu’s petals to highlight entertainment from the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s that’s become a seasonal staple—or deserves to.

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our very own holiday HateSongs.

Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.

Taken from the 2007 collection of previously unreleased material, New Moon, “Angel In The Snow” is an overlooked gem in Elliott Smith’s catalog. While not a traditional holiday ode, Laura Stevenson saw the inherent beauty in the tender love song, dropping by The A.V. Club office to offer her own delicate take on it.…

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.

Each and every year, The A.V. Club scours our inboxes—both real and web-based—in an attempt to find that year’s least essential albums. These might not be the worst records of the year, but they’re the dumbest, marking not only the decline of the music industry but of civilized society in general. Don’t say we didn’t…