David Greenwald's posts

Another, more summer-barbecue-friendly lifetime ago, Pop Etc was a band called The Morning Benders. The group turned…

What’s often forgotten in the inevitable march of progress is that today’s good ideas don’t have to go bad. Once a…

Whether recording as Red House Painters or Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek isn’t exactly known for his sense of humor.…

Earlier this year, Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, writer of the B-side “Get Off the Internet,” committed a genuinely…

Beach House’s 2010 breakthrough Teen Dream found Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally replacing the peeling floral…

Of all the artists saddled with the chillwave genre tag, none have been more prolific or adventurous than Toro Y Moi’…

First the good news: By all accounts, Alabama Shakes is the sort of hard-working, no-nonsense band whose seemingly…

A band can go platinum, win Grammys, and wind up on magazine covers; but everybody knows that the greatest honor in…

In Allo Darlin’s Europe, there is no Greek debt crisis. No tensions with Iran. Just pop songs and broken hearts, and…

Perhaps the title of Bowerbirds’ third album refers to the removal of any previous studio limitations. The Clearing…

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club. Fortunately, we end up liking some of them. In Playlisted,…

Like The Jesus And Mary Chain before it, Sleigh Bells arrived with 2010’s Treats riding a one-trick pony—a pony the…

Shearwater’s journey from a ramshackle Okkervil River sister act to one of indie rock’s foremost purveyors of…

If bands have their whole lives to write their first records, they have a shorter window to take advantage of their…

Since 2007’s ambitious, masterful Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, absorbing an Of Montreal album has become a…

Less than one second into the superb Belle & Sebastian homage “Eighth Avenue,” on Hospitality’s self-titled debut,…

“I cannot believe the future’s happening to me,” Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws sings on the closing track of The Stars…

Where personalities end and collaboration begins can be a difficult balance for any band, much less a collection of…

One thing about High Highs: They’re in no rush. The Brooklyn-via-Sydney group released the first single from this…

When Harlem Shakes’ Technicolor Health arrived in 2009, it felt like it should’ve been the start of something—the…