This week’s Q&A was sparked by a question that recently made the rounds on social media, prompting debate in the A.V. Club office:

Wye Oak’s sixth album is beautifully dense, while The Deconstruction proves the Eels haven’t lost their touch for melancholic pop, and Dr. Octagon swings for the goddamn fences on Moosebumps. These, plus The Weeknd, No Thank You, Kali Uchis, and many more in this week’s new releases.

Listen to these songs and more on The A.V. Club’s Spotify playlist, updated weekly with what we’re listening to.

April promises another strong, diverse set of new releases to follow up an excellent March, with albums from favorites like Grouper, Wye Oak, and Flatbush Zombies as well as up-and-comers Saba, No Thank You, and Half Waif. There’s also Janelle Monáe’s third full-length, Kali Uchis’ long-awaited debut, the latest from…

The Vaccines find a familiar groove on the exuberant Combat Sports, while The Voidz are painfully misguided on the parody-ready Virtue, and, by contrast, Jean Grae & Quelle Chris’ Everything’s Fine crackles with fury and frustration. These, plus Czarface & MF Doom and Frankie Cosmos in this week’s notable new releases.

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Space Gun is business as usual for Guided By Voices, while The Sword loses its riff-monster edge on Used Future, and Preoccupations’ New Material wades into new wave. These, plus Sunflower Bean and Cavern Of Anti-Matter in this week’s notable new releases.

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Although Jack White was the primary creative force in The White Stripes, the three albums he’s made since officially going “solo” have all been decidedly non-Stripes-like. Both Blunderbuss in 2012 and Lazaretto in 2014 were rooted in the primitive blues, garage rock, and rural folk music that White made with his…

Back in April, the lawyers working with Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke on their appeal of the big “Blurred Lines” copyright suit in 2015 came up with an fun strategy, essentially arguing that the “groove” of a song cannot be copyrighted so “Blurred Lines” could not have possibly ripped off Marvin Gaye’s “Got To…

Falling in love is hard, but one of the great conveniences of modern life is the plethora of hyper-specific dating apps that are available across the internet and mobile devices. There’s that one for Trump-supporting assholes that proudly displayed a photo of a man convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl when…

Hey Andy,

1. Simon & Garfunkel, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
2. The Carpenters, “(They Long To Be) Close To You”
3. The Guess Who, “American Woman”
4. B.J. Thomas, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”
5. Edwin Starr, “War”
6. Diana Ross, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
7. The Jackson 5, “I’ll Be There”
8. Rare Earth, “Get Ready”
9. The…

According to Variety, a Roots concert scheduled for last night at South By Southwest in Austin was canceled after a man later identified as Trevor Weldon Ingram contacted Live Nation and claimed he had planted a bomb at the venue. Police searched and didn’t find anything suspicious, but sponsor Bud Light decided to…

Earlier this month, Vince Staples fired an orbital laser of passive-aggressive snark with a GoFundMe page for people who haven’t liked his recent shows, saying he’d “shut the fuck up forever” if he could raise $2 million in donations. Or, as he put it: “Get off of my dick, or fund my lifestyle; the choice is yours.”…

When the public was informed of Prince’s untimely death, people immediately took to sharing videos of their favorite live performances to showcase what a singular talent the man was. One of the most shared videos was Prince’s 2004 appearance at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, where he joined Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and…

Last June, Trent Reznor announced that 2016's Not The Actual Events would be the first in a new trilogy of EPs, with the series continuing on to that summer’s Add Violence EP. Reznor had initially suggested that the final EP in the trilogy would come out by the end of 2017 or in early 2018, but Spin is now reporting…

It’s been 25 years since Exile In Guyville titillated audiences with its raw, stripped-down take, part confessional and part satire, on singer-songwriter Liz Phair’s experiences with fuckboys in all their various forms. It says something about how far we haven’t come that songs like “Fuck And Run” (“whatever happened…

Listen to these songs and more on The A.V. Club’s Spotify playlist, updated weekly with what we’re listening to.

On 1971’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On, Sly And The Family Stone filtered the creeping hangover of the ’60s into a murky, slurring monument of fugue-state funk. It was an album that reflected the twilight mood of its time: Woodstock optimism ossifying into Altamont dread, “free love” fading into porno reels inside 42nd St.…