Last year, Taylor Swift went through hell with former label Big Machine and promised her fans that she’d re-record her six albums under the label. Since then, she previewed her new version of “Love Story” in a Match.com ad helmed by Ryan Reynolds, hinting that a re-recorded version of her 2008 album, Fearless, was…
Someday, we’re going to be telling our grandchildren working the moon farms about this legendarily bad year—the needless and preventable deaths, the isolation, the hundred-plus other little daily nightmares and difficulties that made it so singularly awful. But with any luck, we’ll end our rambling recollections on a…
Liz Phair was set to release Soberish, her first new album since 2010's Funstyle, last year, but the pandemic upended those plans. We got a glimpse of what was to come with her 2019 single “Good Side,” and now Phair’s shared a brand new song off her upcoming record.
It’s Tuesday and we’re still talking about Phoebe Bridgers’ SNL guitar-smashing. But David Crosby is in part to blame for that. The legendary, weed-addled rocker is often asked for his opinion on whatever hot music topic is trending, so someone asked him for his thoughts on the much talked-about performance.
Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, has died. The singer’s longtime friend and publicist, Jay Schwartz, notified multiple outlets that Wilson died suddenly at her home in Las Vegas at the age of 76.
Before working on her solo debut, Petals For Armor, Hayley Williams wasn’t convinced she could venture out on her own. (Of course, that didn’t prevent her from crafting what would become one of the best albums of 2020 and a token of her serious growth as an artist.) But nearly a year in lockdown has left the…
When Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” dropped, everyone knew. It was all anyone talked about last summer. Ben Shapiro reciting the lyrics will unfortunately be forever etched in our memories of a very cursed year. Cardi has a new single now called “Up” and while it’s gotten attention on social media, the…
After being one of the most talked-about artists in the past year, Phoebe Bridgers finally made her Saturday Night Live debut last night. She brought much-needed excitement to a very “meh” episode, ending her performance of “I Know The End” by smashing her guitar. Cue some older Gen X-ers, boomers, and gearheads on…
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, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…
Paramore singer Hayley Williams recently gave superfan Carly Butler the enviable treat of hand-delivering her latest solo single, “My Limb,” so she could listen to it before anyone else. Williams documented the experience on video, saying, “Okay, we’re going to drop off a Sanctuary candle and a burnt copy of one of…
Tomorrow, the new Foo Fighters album, Medicine At Midnight, will be released. On one hand, you probably already know if this is of interest to you or not: The Foo Fighters aren’t exactly the most sonically or stylistically adventurous band on the planet, so if you’ve historically enjoyed their particular brand of…
Sean Tillman, who you may know as his nom de alter ego, Har Mar Superstar, was in the middle of touring with Heart Bones (his project with Sweet Spirit/A Giant Dog singer Sabrina Ellis) when the pandemic forced the cessation of their outing. Stuck at home in Minneapolis, he found himself doing what he could to help…
So much of the past year has felt interminable, but after the wild events of January, we’re having a different reaction to it being February: What the hell, 2021 is one-twelfth of the way over already?! Honestly, it’s kind of a refreshing feeling! So let’s embrace this newfound spirit of optimism and time moving at a…
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, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…
It was supposed to be the year of Van Weezer. After putting out a dozen studio albums (13 if you count the all-covers Teal Album), Weezer had planned to release Rivers Cuomo’s homage to the metal music of his youth in 2020. Instead, COVID-19 happened, and Cuomo did what many of us have done over the past year: turned…
There was always something a little disreputable about INXS. Despite being one of the bigger rock bands on the planet for the better part of a decade, releasing a string of critically and commercially successful albums worldwide, the Australian six-piece never really shook the perception that it was more style than…
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, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…
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, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…
It can take years, if not decades, for the saddest songs to reveal themselves as such. The symphonies of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Type O Negative’s thundering doom, the cracked and withering voice carrying Johnny Cash’s America recordings—biography and context inflame their impact. Their sadness radiates over time. Death,…
Bubble-gummy singles, a relentless touring schedule, and a viral TikTok tune helped pave the way for last year’s Honeymoon, the debut LP from Chicago indie-rock outfit Beach Bunny. The album, a crunchy, hyper-caffeinated ode to turn-of-your-20s romance and doe-eyed yearning, delivered upon the band’s budding promise,…
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