In the first of our new monthly A.V. Talks devoted to music, Kyle Ryan and Steven Hyden talk about July's notable releases, including M.I.A. and Big Boi, and preview August with Hyden pre-emptively dismissing the new Arcade Fire.
A.V. Talk: July music round-up
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25 more bands, 25 more cover songs, still one small, round room.
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Get knocked down, get up again.
September 15, 2011
Fruit Bats cover "The Other Woman" by Loretta Lynn
A return engagement from The Fruit Bats.
September 13, 2011
Peter Bjorn And John cover "Try A Little Tenderness" by Otis Redding
Peter Bjorn and John amp up what was supposed to be a staid love song.
September 6, 2011
We take an artist and their iPod, then hit shuffle.
Kim Dickens
The Treme actress exposes her country roots—plus an affinity for R. Kelly.
April 25, 2011
Jay Ryan
The poster artist and Dianogah bassist goes deep into his iTunes for The A.V. Club.
December 10, 2010
Charlie Day
One of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s stars takes his mp3 player for a shuffle and finds every genre under the sun.
October 26, 2010Nathan Rabin listens to more than a decade's worth of America's most popular pop music
Vol. 38 (May 2011)
Final installment! As THEN! catches up with the extremely recent past, it faces the apocalyptic threat of Black Eyed Peas one last time.
July 19, 2011
Vol. 37 (February, 2011)
Is Ke$ha’s real message that she’s a homeless woman desperately looking for a bed for the night?
July 5, 2011
Vol. 36 (November, 2010)
Katy Perry has teenage dreams. Sugarland gets stuck like glue.
June 21, 2011