Over a decade since Panic! At The Disco’s emergence, central figure Brendon Urie stands alone as the sole remaining founding member of the group. Now Panic! officially functions as Urie’s nom de plume—which unofficially, it always was. With no one to answer to, Urie, aided by producer and co-songwriter Jake Sinclair…
Early in its career, the London-based trio Daughter was labeled as everything from nü-folk to “Enya meets Eno.” In reality, the sound fell somewhere in between Songs: Ohia and Bat For Lashes: Daughter’s debut, 2013’s If You Leave, possessed space-filled arrangements and minimal instrumentation, which placed frontwoman…
Now That’s What I Call Music! feels like a distant memory, a present you got for Christmas when Juicy sweatsuits were a thing. Yet, the series continues to be successfully sold in CD form. It’s remarkable to think that anyone besides Adele might be able to move physical copies, never mind the irrelevance of…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time, David Bowie.
With “Young Americans,” David Bowie delivered a soulful, stream-of-consciousness state of the nation
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time, David Bowie.
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. Note: The interviews in this article were conducted before David Bowie’s death on January 11, 2016.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time, David Bowie.
With the possible exception of The Beatles, no artist has bonded me with more people than David Bowie. I never got to see him live, and I didn’t get to witness his art evolve and mutate in real time, but I do get to remember the many times his talents sparked a personal connection, be it reveling in Labyrinth with my…
David Bowie was a dozen different people; he once described himself as a “collector” who amassed personalities and ideas the way others might clothes, changing them to suit the passing years and styles—and setting them for others to follow. There have been thick volumes written that focus only on brief, specific…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time, David Bowie.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
Crooned and wailed over a backdrop of dark jazz, spy soundtrack, and synth pad, Blackstar finds David Bowie—now old enough to be grandpa to a big chunk of the music-streaming public—at the forefront of something. Admittedly, Bowie is a one-man hall of mirrors, and anything new he does ends up reflecting what he’s…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
If you’re like me this time of year, wine is the currency that guides you through this party-heavy season. I hardly ever arrive anywhere without a bottle of wine in hand, and accept just as many from guests on my doorstep. Unfortunately, I have never found a wine marker I’ve liked: Those annoying little charms aren’t…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs our families made us listen to repeatedly.
In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines a song 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 Haddaway’s “What Is Love,” which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Eurochart Hot 100…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs our families made us listen to repeatedly.
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