Newswire Kevin Smith writes (really long, really thoughtful) answers to questions from Decider readers

June 15, 2009 | 12:00pm -

feature Mutek 2009

We report on the Montreal electronic-music festival.

June 8, 2009 | 12:00am -

Gateways To Geekery David Foster Wallace

How to approach the legacy of a late, great author.

May 28, 2009 | 1:48pm -

MusicalWork Review Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

French rock band makes simple likeability a serious virtue.

May 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

Newswire You + a direct line to Kevin Smith (and a microphone at Carnegie Hall!) 

May 18, 2009 | 11:00am -

Newswire Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt talks about his new theatrical adaptation of Coraline

May 12, 2009 | 9:38am -

Newswire Bjork + Dirty Projectors make good at a coffee-shop benefit show in New York

May 11, 2009 | 1:20pm -

Newswire Bjork + Dirty Projectors to play special benefit show in a super-small room in NYC

March 27, 2009 | 12:18pm -

Gateways To Geekery Krautrock

Where to enter the forbidden world of experimental German "rock" music.

March 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

Newswire Animal Collective puts new box set up for auction, to benefit Doctors Without Borders

March 19, 2009 | 12:49pm -

Newswire In NYC, win two tickets to see U2 play live on Letterman 

February 27, 2009 | 11:06am -

MusicalWork Review Antony & The Johnsons: The Crying Light

Operatic alien Antony sings about a world slipping away.

January 27, 2009 | 12:00am -

MusicalWork Review Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

Exultant art-rock troupe goes wide-screen big.

January 20, 2009 | 12:01am -

Inventory Christmas, please, but hold the treacle: 42 holiday entertainments that don't make us want to claw our eyes out with rage

The A.V. Club's weekly Inventory.

December 21, 2008 | 10:55pm -

feature Our favorite books of 2008

Even more things we loved this year.

December 18, 2008 | 12:00pm -

MusicalWork Review Megapuss: Surfing

Devendra Banhart and friends get naked.

December 1, 2008 | 11:03pm -

MusicalWork Review Arthur Russell: Love Is Overtaking Me

Unheard songs from a must-hear legend who rarely sounded so rustic.

November 17, 2008 | 11:03pm -

MusicalWork Review Pink: Funhouse

Pop's sour "renegade" thrashes and swoons.

November 10, 2008 | 11:04pm -

The A.V. Club Blog Letters On A Lake

I met the guy who took this photo two weekends ago in line for the boats in Central Park. He was by himself, wheeling a little dolly...

November 5, 2008 | 11:29am -

The A.V. Club Blog David Foster Wallace, memorialized

Last week I went to a memorial service in New York for David Foster Wallace, a writer whose absence still makes my stomach drop this...

October 31, 2008 | 1:36pm -

MusicalWork Review Morgan Geist: Double Night Time

A disco virtuoso goes warm and deep with songs sung by Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan.

October 27, 2008 | 11:01pm -

MusicalWork Review Marnie Stern: This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That

An art-rock maven swoons at the center of a din.

October 13, 2008 | 11:04pm -

Interview Elephant 6's Holiday Surprise Tour

Neutral Milk Hotel's Julian Koster talks about tap-dancing robots and the collective tour that came out of a dream.

October 13, 2008 | 11:01pm -

The A.V. Club Blog My Bloody Valentine live

My Bloody Valentine was in fact the loudest band I've ever heard by several orders of magnitude. But what was interesting about the...

September 24, 2008 | 10:56am -

Inventory Dead leaves and the dirty ground: 25 sad songs for changing seasons

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

September 21, 2008 | 11:01pm -

MusicalWork Review New Kids On The Block: The Block

New Kids On The Block are b-b-back.

September 15, 2008 | 11:05pm -

The A.V. Club Blog Remembering David Foster Wallace

It's not without reticence that I will admit one of the highlights of my career, as it were, is having been blurbed in a book by David Foster...

September 15, 2008 | 12:45pm -

MusicalWork Review The Music Tapes: Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes

A member of Neutral Milk Hotel stares at the clouds.

September 2, 2008 | 12:08am -

MusicalWork Review Lindstrøm: Where You Go I Go Too

Norway's space-disco ambassador goes long.

August 25, 2008 | 11:02pm -

MusicalWork Review Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst

The Bright Eyes star goes solo (though not really) for an album different than the kind he tends to make (though not entirely).

August 4, 2008 | 11:08pm -