A lot of people organize the mysterious history of MF Doom around Madvillainy, his 2004 album-length collaboration with Madlib. This is fair enough: It’s a stone-cold classic, with a gauzy ambience culled from Madlib’s fathomless crates, Doom’s typically funny, surrealist lyrics, and that shadowy, instant-classic…
Goths, the Mountain Goats’ 16th studio album, opens with “Rain In Soho,” a barnburner of a song that belies the subdued nature of the tracks that follow. In fact, it gets things off to such a rousing start that it’s easy to overlook what’s missing—namely, frontman John Darnielle’s guitar. As mentioned in the album’s…
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Okilly Dokilly, the world’s first and only “Nedal” band, stopped by The A.V. Club offices in the midst of their tour to treat us to a live performance. In the clip above, Okilly Dokilly performs “Godspeed Little Doodle,” a track from their 2016 album, Howdilly Doodilly.
Figuring out what was “cool” in the ’90s was exhausting. For anyone who cared about such things—i.e., self-conscious teens whose fragile identities were defined by what they liked—it was practically a full-time job keeping track of what it was universally okay to be into, what outliers you could safely adopt to…
On May 19, Matador Records will reissue Helium’s two full-length albums, The Dirt Of Luck and The Magic City, alongside a new compilation of B-sides and demos titled Ends With And. This is more than just the now-standard repackaging of ’90s nostalgia, more than just a boon to fans who have seen these records languish,…
Flying Lotus kept to a strict album-every-two-years schedule for the first decade of his career, stretching from 2006’s 1983 to 2014’s proggy opus You’re Dead! He hasn’t exactly been quiet since then, showing up as a producer on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly and making a horror flick that is apparently pretty…
Okilly Dokilly, the world’s first and only metal band inspired by Ned Flanders, stopped by The A.V. Club offices in the midst of their tour to treat us to a live performance. In the clip above, Okilly Dokilly performs “All That Is Left,” a track from their 2016 album, Howdilly Doodilly.
Okilly Dokilly, the world’s first and only “Nedal” band, stopped by The A.V. Club offices in the midst of their tour to treat us to a live performance. In the clip above, Okilly Dokilly performs “They Warned Me,” a track from their 2016 album, Howdilly Doodilly.
In addition to being a stand-up comedian, actor, and activist, Margaret Cho is an accomplished singer-songwriter. Cho recently stopped by The A.V. Club offices in the midst of touring the country, and we put her musical prowess to the test by asking her to review some new music releases. Hear her thoughts on Harry…
There are myriad reasons why Harry Styles is the most popular and recognizable member of One Direction. Chief among them, however, is the utmost respect he has for the band’s (primarily) teenage girl fan base. “Who’s to say that young girls who like pop music—short for popular, right?—have worse musical taste than a…
Today marks the 15th anniversary of El-P’s debut record Fantastic Damage, a bombed-out, paranoid masterpiece of underground hip-hop. If that’s got you feeling nostalgic, like you want to go and listen to it right now, sorry: The record has somehow been eaten by the internet. It’s one of those strange albums that’s not…
Esther Zuckerman: Fran, I’ll start off this discussion by stating for the record that you and I are two adult women who enjoy Harry Styles. But is Harry Styles for us? Can we appreciate his persona and music without infantilizing ourselves?
Some background for those who are not familiar. Harry—as we’ll be referring to…
I’m still on the fence about “Call The Police,” but I’m already in love with LCD Soundsystem’s other comeback song, “American Dream.” Despite being a bleak ballad about (what else?) aging, aimlessness, and regret, it’s one of the flat-out prettiest tracks the band has ever produced. All that introspection is afloat on…
We’ve never had a better setting for an interview than Hawaii’s Kekaha Kai State Park, which sits just up the coast from Kona. In the video above, Onion Inc. Creative Director Leo Garcia chats up Boulevards’ Jamil Rashad about his life, interests, and career while perched on some volcanic rock and enjoying a nice cold…
When we asked Zipper Club to jet down to the big island of Hawaii to hang out and play music on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, they were, understandably, eager to make it happen. It did, luckily, and you can see the by-product of Zipper Club’s trip to Kona, Hawaii, in these three videos, all of which…
It’s almost Memorial Day, meaning it’s about time to pick this year’s summer jam. While some pop stars are coming forth with solid options, we’re partial to Boulevards’ “Wear & Tear,” which just came out as a single about a month ago. He performed it for us live in Kona, Hawaii, and once you hear it, you’ll hopefully…
While a typical day at the beach might seem like a good opportunity to chill, swim, and soak up some rays, North Carolina’s Boulevards helped us bring the party to Hawaii’s Kekaha Kai State Park. In the video above, Jamil Rashad is perched on some volcanic rock and sporting an appropriately unbuttoned shirt as he…
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