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MusicalWork Review Chelsea Light Moving: Chelsea Light Moving

Thurston Moore moves beyond Sonic Youth. A little.

March 5, 2013 | 12:01am -
AVQ&A Favorite poems

This week, the staff and readers discuss the poetry that sticks with us.

March 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Johnny Marr: The Messenger

The former Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist takes another weak stab at a solo career.

February 26, 2013 | 12:03am -
Inventory Love on the dole: 18 songs about being on government assistance

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

February 25, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Fictional foods we want to try

A reader asks the staff and commenters what foods from pop culture they’d most like to sample.

February 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away

After the loss of his last founding Bad Seed, Nick Cave simmers.

February 19, 2013 | 12:03am -
MusicalWork Review Iceage: You’re Nothing

Copenhagen’s post-punk sensation grows a little more numb.

February 19, 2013 | 12:02am -
AVQ&A Regrettably unattainable art

In an age of near-infinite pop-culture accessibility, we look at those rare items we still can’t acquire.

February 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Permanent Records Texas Is The Reason’s Do You Know Who You Are? asks the big question

This emo band wasn’t a joke.

February 12, 2013 | 1:30pm -
MusicalWork Review Pissed Jeans: Honeys

Today’s noise-rock standard-bearer takes a breather.

February 12, 2013 | 12:01am -
Book Review J. G. Ballard: Miracles Of Life: Shanghai To Shepperton

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, the author of Crash and Empire Of The Sun wrote this final book, a telling, analytical autobiography.

February 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Tonight, let’s be lovers: 18 songs about one-night stands

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

February 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Hear a new song from Good For You, the latest project from Black Flag’s Greg Ginn

To sweeten the pot, skateboarding legend Mike Vallely is the group’s frontman.

February 8, 2013 | 11:45am -
AVQ&A Best album-opening one-two punches

This week, the staff and readers look at the most perfect beginnings for albums.

February 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Get Involved, Internet: Help metal dudes show their love for cats

"The Metaldudes Cats Book combines three loves that have a global reach: kitties, metal, and dudes."

February 7, 2013 | 3:40pm -
Loud This month’s top noisemakers include Iron Reagan, Cult Of Luna, and Holy Grail

Plus: new releases from Attic, Arbouretum, Circle Takes The Square, and more.

February 6, 2013 | 1:30pm -
The Single File Before Aretha Franklin was the Queen Of Soul, she took a trip to Soulville

Franklin didn’t write “Soulville,” but she made it her own. And then made it her rallying cry.

February 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review The Bronx: The Bronx (IV)

L.A.’s gang of punk hellions prove the fourth time is the charm.

February 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review My Bloody Valentine: MBV

Finally.

February 4, 2013 | 11:03am -
AVQ&A Pop culture too extensive to start

This week, the staff and readers discuss which pop-culture series or genres have built up what seems like an impenetrable backlog.

February 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Begin again: 27 opening-credits sequences that evolved with their series

Another list from The A.V. Club.

January 30, 2013 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Tomahawk: Oddfellows

A noise-rock supergroup finally finds its feet.

January 29, 2013 | 12:02am -
For Our Consideration When should a band break up?

With Mars Volta breaking up and Guided By Voices soldiering on, The A.V. Club asks when is enough enough?

January 28, 2013 | 12:40pm -
MusicalWork Review Bad Religion: True North

A hardcore legend reorients itself.

January 22, 2013 | 12:04am -
For Our Consideration How Adam Ant made the ’80s his bitch

He became a pirate and broke every rule in the pop-music playbook.

January 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Clear eyes, full hearts, eh, I’ll just wait for the TV show: 14 TV series that usurped their original film versions

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

January 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
Hear This The History Of Apple Pie revisits the history of the ’90s

A fresh-faced London foursome whips up a lush, catchy anthem.

January 18, 2013 | 12:00pm -
The Single File The uneven alchemy of Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With The Devil”

It appeals to music geeks, dumbfucks, and anyone who can appreciate David Lee Roth as a god gone goofy.

January 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Inventory I know the drill: 18 scary depictions of dentistry

Another list from The A.V. Club.

January 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration Why Captain Beefheart’s worst album deserves better

Bluejeans & Moonbeams is Beefheart dabbling in a fuzzier, less strained iteration of his sound.

January 8, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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