In 10 For The ’10s, The A.V. Club looks back at the decade that was: 10 essays about the media that defined the 2010s, one for every year from 2010 to 2019. First up: 2010 and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Bass Pro Shop in downtown Memphis is actually an occult monument to Freemasonry, or the Egyptian sun god Ra, or—listen, nobody seems to know what it’s a monument to, exactly, but whatever it is, it’s evil. We know this because its developer, John Tigrett, secretly placed a…
As we settle into Horrors Week and prepare for Halloween, this week we’re asking:
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist.
This week’s question comes from Web Producer Baraka Kaseko:
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist.
While As If It Were Forever may stand as her official full-length debut, Anna Wise is not new to the music industry. Her latest solo effort is the long-developing cherry on top of a 10-year career that includes two EPs and a Grammy-winning collaboration with Kendrick Lamar. With ethereal melodies and soul-arresting…
Cultural heritage isn’t passed down quite like our genes. We don’t inherit that history, those influences, the way we do eye color or other physical traits—not even when our appreciation of a cuisine or genre of music feels instinctive. But unlike genetic inheritance, sharing our culture is an ongoing exchange, one…
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist.
In 1975, three years before Brian Eno introduced the word “ambient” to the world, Portland-based musician Ernest Hood quietly released his sole LP via private press. With its oatmeal-colored cover, delicately drawn lettering, and a subtitle declaring it to be “Memories of Times Past,” Neighborhoods was often slotted…
Just around the time Nick Cave began to abandon the narrative, the narrative came for him. As he wrote 2013’s Push The Sky Away and 2016’s Skeleton Tree, the man who had previously spun memorable and deranged fables out of Elvis’ birth, Greek mythology, the darkest notes of the blues, and the perils of not having sex…
Angel Olsen originally planned to release two different takes on her fourth album, All Mirrors, simultaneously: a solo version and a full-band rendering of the songs. As Olsen details in a letter packaged with the All Mirrors promo, however, once she dived into work with collaborators—including frequent co-writer Ben…
Ambitious new albums by Angel Olsen, Danny Brown, or FKA Twigs would each be big enough events to anchor a month of releases all their own. But this October? We get all three, plus new music from a ridiculously stacked list of names we couldn’t get into the headline: Nick Cave, Big Thief, Blood Orange, Jimmy Eat…
In the immediate months before Gang Of Four was about to make its incendiary debut album, Entertainment!, guitarist Andy Gill recalls, “I remember saying to Rob Warr, who was our friend and managing us at the time, and the others: ‘Do you realize how important this is? Do you realize that this is going to change the…
There are bands that find success relatively early—and then there’s Veruca Salt. Within the span of their first half-dozen shows in 1993, the Chicago foursome—singers and guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, bassist Steve Lack, and drummer Jim Shapiro, Gordon’s brother—were signed to a label. Six months later, they…
Ask a parent what their kid is listening to, and they’ll probably say something awful. (“Baby Shark,” anyone?) Luckily, there’s a soothing and satisfying alternative out there for parents, and has been for over 10 years.
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