Nearly a year after the launch of Jay Z’s Tidal, listeners are finally reaping the benefits of its artist-owned premise. The streaming platform is the only place online to binge on Prince’s catalog, and it’s also allowed superstars such as Kanye West, Rihanna, and Beyoncé to untether themselves from a label-driven…
The King Khan & BBQ Show are no strangers to theatrics. What with the pair’s elaborate get-ups that cleverly expose their nipples, the garage-rock duo seems more than comfortable with some light exhibitionism. Because of that, The A.V. Club wanted to see if King Khan & BBQ Show would be able to identify celebrities…
The knock against A$AP Rocky from the start has been that he’s an empty Prada suit. You can listen to his albums straight through and never learn a thing about the guy. That’s never been a problem, though, with A$AP Ferg, the A$AP Mob rapper most likely to unseat Rocky as the crew’s flagship member. On his sophomore…
In case anyone should confuse it with being a metaphor for a breakup (which would make total sense in a Blink-182 song), Tom DeLonge had this to say about “Asthenia” in the liner notes for the band’s 2003 self-titled album: “This song is about one thing only, an astronaut sitting in a space capsule about the size of a…
In Under The Influence, The A.V. Club asks a musician to pair three of their songs with a non-musical influence.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title.
My college years were defined by Prince. Specifically, they were defined by the eternal quest to get into one of Prince’s late-night jam-fests at Paisley Park. More weekend nights than I care to count, whatever I was doing would get unceremoniously dropped whenever I heard the rumor flying around: Prince is throwing a…
The eight songs on Wire’s Nocturnal Koreans emerged from the same studio sessions that produced the band’s last full-length, 2015’s bracing WIRE. However, vocalist-guitarist Colin Newman makes it very clear that these are no mere leftovers: Instead, songs ended up the raw material for intensive studio sculpting that…
The first thing to understand about Please Be Honest is that it’s a Guided By Voices record in name only, as Robert Pollard played all the instruments on this album. His explanation for releasing it under the GBV name is that it “felt like a GBV album.” It’s understandable to be a bit suspicious here, as this could…
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title.
With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading materials that are tied together by a single theme.
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, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title.
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title.
Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus are vocal about their love of Bruce Springsteen. It’s why, when the pair recently went on tour together, it only made sense to try to declare one the king of all things Bruce. In this best-of-three challenge, Finn and Stickles clap out a rhythm and…
It’s almost impossible to listen to Elliott Smith’s music and not feel something. As amazing a songwriter as he was—one of the best to ever lay pen to paper or pick to string—more often than not, it’s his voice that does it. That soft, on-the-verge-of-breaking warble cuts to the core, crooning away about drugs,…
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.
The best promo for PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, came about entirely by accident. An unsuspecting Washington Post reporter published an account of the day he took a mysterious, dark-haired “musician/poet” on a tour of Washington, D.C.’s underdeveloped neighborhoods. That passenger…
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