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MusicalWork Review Sigur Rós: Kveikur

Iceland’s most majestic group turns downward.

June 18, 2013 | 12:02am -
Hear This “Carve Out Your Tongue” carves a dark path for Grave Babies

Some medical advice from the grave.

June 13, 2013 | 11:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Listen to “Forever In Space,” a song from White Hills’ So You Are... So You’ll Be

The group has savage and celestial heaviness.

June 12, 2013 | 10:00am -
MusicalWork Review Black Sabbath: 13

A metal legend comes full circle.

June 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A What piece of art would you want to memorize in order to pass it on to the members of a future generation?

Please, think about the children.

June 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
Primer A beginners’ guide to funk overlord James Brown

Where to start with The Godfather Of Soul.

June 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Queens Of The Stone Age: …Like Clockwork

The master of the summer anthem turns down the thermostat.

June 4, 2013 | 12:04am -
AVQ&A Who was your first pop culture crush?

They call it puppy love.

May 31, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration Comics, Coltrane, and Cthulhu: The vital importance of pop-culture mentors

Mentors provide a context that the Internet often does not.

May 31, 2013 | 12:00am -
Gateways To Geekery Where to start with the tuneful heaviness of Josh Homme

From Kyuss to Queens Of The Stone Age and beyond.

May 30, 2013 | 12:00am -
Hear This Before shoegaze, there was this Love And Rockets dream-anthem

A new box set provides a glimpse into Bauhaus minus Peter Murphy.

May 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -
MusicalWork Review Kylesa: Ultraviolet

Defying genre, a Georgia heavyweight keeps it spacious.

May 28, 2013 | 12:01am -
The Single File With “Do You Remember Rock ’N’ Roll Radio?,” the Ramones pirated the past

What happens when punk forefathers go pop?

May 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A What pop-culture family would you want to join?

The Bluths seem like nice people, but being related to them? No thanks.

May 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
Gateways To Geekery An initiation into the psychedelic sci-fi rock of Hawkwind

Travel through space and time with the drone master.

May 23, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration What do we mean when we call music pretentious?

Just because “transcendental black metal” is a thing doesn’t mean it’s not from the heart.

May 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A What are your favorite and least favorite cultural baits and switches?

Stop jerking us around, pop culture.

May 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration High infidelity: For the love of side projects

An appreciation of musical polyamory, from Tom Tom Club to Vår.

May 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration Are oral histories a good way to write about music?

Louder Than Hell is an unconventional oral history, but how much should an author shape a true story?

May 14, 2013 | 11:00am -
MusicalWork Review Survival: Survival

Liturgy’s divisive frontman ditches the metal and shoots for the heavens.

May 14, 2013 | 12:04am -
AVQ&A The films you’ve loved longest

In the third AVQ&A in a themed trilogy, we look at the films we discovered earliest in life and still enjoy rewatching.

May 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
Hear This An Iceage side project sings of the apocalypse

Vår’s “The World Fell” is elegantly depressing.

May 9, 2013 | 11:00am -
Hear This An early Killing Joke song brings out the dead

“Requiem” is an inhumanly cruel contraption of industrialized dread.

May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -
Hear This Neil Diamond made his name with “Solitary Man”

Noah Kaminsky’s version of the song just wouldn’t have been the same.

May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -
The Single File A personal, firsthand account of Neutral Milk Hotel’s debut single

As the band gets ready to reunite, Jason Heller looks back at its beginning.

May 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A The books you’ve loved longest

This week, our staff and reader question addresses the books we discovered earliest in life and still have on the shelves.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory “Spread your wings and let me come inside”: 13 songs about losing virginity

Another list from The A.V. Club.

May 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Iggy And The Stooges: Ready To Die

A legendary band makes another stab at a comeback.

April 30, 2013 | 12:04am -
MusicalWork Review Coliseum: Sister Faith

Guests from Boris, Jawbox, and Sebadoh don’t add much to a solid post-hardcore showing.

April 30, 2013 | 12:00am -
Hear This Wardruna brings its Nordic-folk to Vikings

Ragnar Lodbrok would approve.

April 26, 2013 | 10:00am -

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