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Book Review Ian F. Svenonius: Supernatural Strategies For Making A Rock ’N’ Roll Group

While pretending to offer a musical how-to, the frontman of Nation Of Ulysses and The Make-Up gets at some fundamental truths about creativity and the music industry.

January 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
Memory Wipe Does the beloved Choose Your Own Adventure series still thrill?

The binary illusion of “freedom” presented to young readers becomes a pain in the ass in adulthood.

January 4, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Loud This month’s top noisemakers, including Year Of The Goat and Agitator

New releases from Kowloon Walled City, Amenra, Arbogast, and more

January 2, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Inventory You’ve got to go on waiting for the miracle to come: 63 of our most anticipated entertainments of 2013

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

December 31, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The best books we read in 2012

Once again, our book reviewers look back on a year of dedicated reading, and pick some of their favorites.

December 31, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The least essential albums of 2012

It’s not that they’re bad, necessarily. It’s that they’re pointless.

December 14, 2012 | 12:00am -
Loud Loud’s best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012

This has been a particularly stellar year for all things heavy.

December 12, 2012 | 2:00pm -
For Our Consideration What does it mean to grow up with a band?

Where 20-plus years listening to the same band can lead.

December 11, 2012 | 11:00am -
MusicalWork Review Green Day: ¡Tre!

An ambitious pop-punk trilogy goes out in a blaze of blah.

December 11, 2012 | 12:01am -
Best of The best music of 2012: The ballots

Scrutinize every point assigned, every album liked, and every honorable mention awarded.

December 11, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Felix Gilman: The Rise Of Ransom City

The sequel to Felix Gilman’s stellar 2010 Western fantasy, The Half-Made World, further develops and populates an intriguing setting.

December 10, 2012 | 12:01am -
For Our Consideration The strange rehabilitation of Rage Against The Machine

The band’s message has gotten skewed over the years, but the power of its debut album endures.

December 7, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Loud New releases from Graveyard, Bell Witch, Diagonal, and more

The latest from this month’s top noisemakers, including JK Flesh/Prurient, Early Graves, and Code Orange Kids.

December 5, 2012 | 12:00pm -
The Single File How Townes Van Zandt’s “Lungs” veers from Platonic epistemology to magic realism

This folk gem is full of morbid metaphor and fixated on the hidden nature of truth.

December 4, 2012 | 10:00am -
Book Review Joe Abercrombie: Red Country

The epic-fantasy author who writes anti-epic-fantasy continues to update his gritty imaginary world and undermine his genre’s usual tropes.

December 3, 2012 | 12:01am -
Inventory Death, be not unproductive: 21 inspired creative works made by the dying

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

December 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Get Involved, Internet: Help Hydra Head Records continue its heavy quest

The metal label needs a little help to stay alive.

November 29, 2012 | 2:20pm -
Inventory ’Til the juice runs down my leg: 23 songs that use fruit for sexual metaphor

A musical list from The A.V. Club.

November 28, 2012 | 12:00pm -
MusicalWork Review Metz: Metz

Noise never sounded so nourishing.

November 27, 2012 | 12:02am -
Book Review Laina Dawes: What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life And Liberation In Heavy Metal

A black journalist documents her own experiences in a traditionally white musical subculture in this smart, ambitious book.

November 26, 2012 | 12:01am -
Inventory “What have I done stuck my dick in?”: 15 songs about VD

A musical list from The A.V. Club.

November 21, 2012 | 10:00am -
For Our Consideration Was hardcore meant to grow old?

Is it really just a matter of how old you feel?

November 20, 2012 | 11:00am -
Book Review Sean Howe: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

A snappy, smart history follows the comics publisher from its shoestring origins to its billion-dollar movie business.

November 19, 2012 | 12:02am -
Inventory Penetration in the centerfold: 20 songs about pornography

A musical list from The A.V. Club.

November 14, 2012 | 12:00pm -
MusicalWork Review Green Day: ¡Dos!

An ambitious pop-punk trilogy hits its sophomore slump.

November 13, 2012 | 12:03am -
MusicalWork Review Brian Eno: Lux

An ambient pioneer returns to the tones that made him.

November 13, 2012 | 12:01am -
Book Review Bettye LaVette, David Ritz: A Woman Like Me

“No one has enjoyed sex more than I have,” the Motown artist and Broadway singer claims in this frank, salacious memoir.

November 12, 2012 | 12:01am -
The Single File Blue Öyster Cult’s “Veteran Of The Psychic Wars” is even bigger than the movie that inspired it

Want to make an epic? Bring in Michael Moorcock.

November 8, 2012 | 11:00am -
Loud New releases from Pig Destroyer, Indian Handcrafts, Golden Void, and more

The latest from this month’s top noisemakers, including Menace Ruine, Early Graves, and Obelyskkh.

November 7, 2012 | 10:30am -
Inventory 10 quotes for when your political candidate loses

Situational wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut, The Simpsons, and others.

November 6, 2012 | 11:00am -

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