Melbourne-based folk duo Oh Pep! stopped by our studio and performed a few songs from their record, Stadium Cake. In the clip above, they perform the song “Wanting.” They are on tour now with Valerie June (dates are listed here).

Melbourne-based folk duo Oh Pep! recently stopped by the Chicago office to perform just for us. Their record, Stadium Cake, is out now, and they’re currently on tour with Valerie June. Dates are listed here.

In Under The Influence, The A.V. Club asks a musician to pair three of their songs with a non-musical influence.

While Meat Wave’s 2012 self-titled album and 2015’s Delusion Moon dealt in driving rhythms and gnarled guitar stabs, The Incessant opts for something more insular. It’s a record that starts with vocalist-guitarist Chris Sutter singing against himself, his voice bouncing between inflections and channels, a disaffected…

When Ryan Adams released his hit cover version of Taylor Swift’s 1989 two years ago, some fans and critics guessed that the recently divorced singer-songwriter was working through his heartbreak by borrowing the words and melodies of one of modern pop’s best lovesick balladeers. But in retrospect, 1989 may have just…

Funny thing about family: You never really know the full sum of the role they play in your life until they’re gone. For Eisley, the family-centric Texas dream-pop band, that comparison extends to music as well. I’m Only Dreaming, the group’s fourth full-length album, is the first since the departure of guitarist…

It’s rare that a drummer becomes the face of a band, much less one of its most well-known members. But that’s the case with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, who doesn’t shy away from speaking his mind and dealing with whatever fallout that invites. This past weekend, Metallica performed at the Grammys with Lady Gaga, a…

David Anthony: Last night was the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, an event that, year after year, sparks the same debate: Do the Grammys actually matter? And while the question of awarding art is always up in the air, this year it was more apparent than ever that the Grammys really aren’t concerned with the awards…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs of protest and dissent.

The musical universe mapped by The Sadies is finite yet expansive. Working purely with tools that would’ve been available 50 years ago, the Canadian foursome routinely squeezes new life from the cornerstones of 20th-century guitar music: classic country, psychedelic folk-rock, Nuggets garage, and even surf and…

It seems axiomatic that a solo project should be a more personal undertaking; it certainly is for singer-pianist Andrew McMahon, who creates his indie-electronic “In The Wilderness” endeavor with a palette of private sensitivities and unsettled emotions. Having turned the corner into his 30s by the time of his 2014…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs of protest and dissent.

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week we’re picking our favorite songs of protest and dissent.

In an apparent attempt at redemption, Kanye West has deleted all of his pro-Trump tweets, renouncing his support of the president. This is, of course, in the middle of Black History Month, leaving the president scrambling to fill his black-friend quota. West reportedly did so because of the president’s extremely…

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re picking our favorite songs of protest and dissent.

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week we’re picking our favorite songs of protest and dissent.

A whole slew of stories came out of yesterday’s Super Bowl LI, but the one we’re most interested in is Lady Gaga’s halftime performance. On today’s A.V. Club Live, Senior Editor Marah Eakin and Assistant Editor Alex McCown-Levy talked about whether Gaga’s performance was all that or a techno letdown.

My tiger mother forced me into piano lessons at age 4. Many other Chinese immigrant kids I knew had the same experience. Our schedule was rigorous; the punishment for not practicing at least an hour a day was loss of allowance, television, or any sort of merriment. Through my childhood and teenage years, I dutifully…

Flapper culture is all the rage now, with seemingly thousands of weddings, birthday parties, and bachelorette parties each year planned around a vague “flapper” or “let’s wear feather headbands” theme. But how did the trend start, and just what did it mean to actually be a flapper? Joshua Zeitz’s Flapper: A Madcap…

In 2011, a teenage band of Danish pretty-punks calling themselves Iceage took the indie rock world by storm. Its first album, New Brigade, felt distinctly innovative, assisting in a wave of punk appreciation that followed. When Iceage first came to the United States, it did so mysteriously—sparking even more…