Car Seat Headrest reimagines 2011’s fiery Twin Fantasy with a bigger budget, while Poliça and Stargaze turn in the stirring Music For The Long Emergency, and Brandi Carlile finds strength in forgiveness on the lovely, languid By The Way, I Forgive You. These, plus Superchunk, Ought, and more in this week’s notable…

I accidentally destroyed my phone during a run yesterday, so I called my old iPod up from the reserves. It’s a modified 300-gig monster that I still update, even though I rarely use it. Scrolling takes forever, so I stopped in the Ds for De La Soul’s classic 3 Feet High And Rising. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard…

This week’s question comes from A.V. Club assistant editor Danette Chavez:

Way back in November, we reported that Frank Ocean seemed to be teasing some new music, implying in a jokey Tumblr post that he was sitting on a new album that he hadn’t gotten around to releasing just yet. Ocean still hasn’t dropped a new album, but late last night he did put a surprise new release up on his YouTube…

Over the course of six albums, Beach House have been defined by their consistency, mining a seemingly endless vein of swooning, melancholy pop music. There have been a lot of bands inspired by Twin Peaks’ narcotic teen-pop aesthetic over the years, but the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally seem uniquely tapped…

In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders to shed some light on how the pop culture sausage gets made. In this installment, we talk to the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin cover band Led Zeppelin 2.

Welcome back to AVC Sessions, our series where we bring in an artist, band, musician, singer, rapper, etc. to perform three of their tracks. This week, we’re sharing songs from Ezra Furman, whose latest record, Transangelic Exodus, was just released. In the final video from the session, Furman performs the opening…

Welcome back to AVC Sessions, our series where we bring in an artist, band, musician, singer, rapper, etc. to perform three of their tracks. This week, we’re sharing songs from Ezra Furman, whose latest record, Transangelic Exodus, was just released last week. In the second video from the session, Furman performs…

Welcome back to AVC Sessions, our series where we bring in an artist, band, musician, singer, rapper, etc. to perform three of their tracks. This week, we’re sharing songs from Ezra Furman, whose latest record, Transangelic Exodus, was just released last week. In the first video from the session, Furman performs the…

Last month, we reported that actress Tracey Birdsall had filed a criminal complaint against Seal, accusing him of trying to force himself on her when they were neighbors in Los Angeles in 2016. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that it was investigating the allegation, and Birdsall said in a…

Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy might have to start sleeping with one eye open and gripping the pillow tight because Metallica’s James Hetfield has signed on to play a cop in director Joe Berlinger’s thriller Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile. Specifically, Deadline says Hetfield will play Officer Bob Hayward, a…

According to Variety, Paramount Players and Imagine Entertainment have begun developing a biopic of trap pioneer Gucci Mane. The movie will based on his autobiography, which—as we noted last year before it was released—follows him through “his roots in Alabama, the streets of East Atlanta, the trap house, and the…

Here’s a best-case scenario confirmed: The Black Panther soundtrack is also one of the best rap albums of this young year, at once an expressive and cohesive addition to Kendrick Lamar’s oeuvre and a thoughtful mixtape from some of R&B and hip-hop’s best. Of course it comes from Top Dawg Entertainment, which has…

Son Lux finds transcendence on the eclectic Brighter Wounds, while Dashboard Confessional’s Crooked Shadows, though undoubtedly polished, is just… fine. These, plus Franz Ferdinand and The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon in this week’s notable new releases.

In 2016, Johnny Cash’s family released Forever Words, a collection of unpublished poetry that they found among his possessions after he died, and now they’ve teamed up with a number of musicians to try and reinterpret some of those poems—and other artifacts found in Cash’s papers—into proper songs. The artists involve…

With few exceptions, whenever an actor decides to embark on a music career, that music will inevitably be a sort of wistful, meat-and-potatoes roots rock. It doesn’t take an imaginary degree in pop psychology to understand this. Movie stardom is a fake and fluffy business; the amount of pretense and preening involved…

Sir, “Something Foreign”

Everybody knows Drake as a wildly successful musical artist and a beloved Degrassi actor, but he apparently he also has a knack for behaving like one of those fantastical movie characters who floats into a town and unexpectedly improves everyone’s lives before moving on to someone else in need—sort of like if Mary…

As a wise group of young women once said, “if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last forever, friendship never ends.” That last sentiment has never been more true, as the women who sang those lyrics—the Spice Girls—are now reportedly planning a reunion tour, indicating that their friendship…

Over the last few weeks, Paul Simon, Elton John, Neil Diamond, and Slayer have all announced that they’re retiring from touring, with none of them giving any indication that we should doubt their commitment to retirement. Now, Ozzy Osbourne has also announced that he will be going on one last tour, but the seriousness…