A.V. Club Blog

May 15, 2008

This time out, let’s check in on a few songs by Booker T. Washington “Bukka” White, who...

May 15, 2008

Screw the Grammys, this is the kind of award every musician should hope for: Neil Young has had a spider named in his honor. East...

May 12, 2008

May 8, 2008

This is the second in what I hope will be a fairly extensive series highlighting some of the terrific performances by old-school blues musicians that...

May 5, 2008

Talk about striking while the iron is hot: Just after Iron Man led the box office...

May 1, 2008

Among its other fine qualities, YouTube has been a gold mine for people who, like me, love finding gems of yesterday's pop culture. I'm a particular...

Apr 30, 2008

Wire and Simpsons fans, this is worth keeping an eye on—Oregon artist Steve Lieber has started a project drawing...

Mar 21, 2006

Snakes On A (Motherfucking) Plane

Mar 21, 2006

Three hours is a long time to sit staring at a stage on which the anti-war movement (or at least some semblance of it) has gathered and not wonder what, exactly, the hell is going on—not just with the war in Iraq, but with the entire discourse surrounding it. The occasion was a big "Bring ‘Em Home Now" concert last night at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, where fiery protest mom Cindy Sheehan shared the spotlight with Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, Moby, Peaches, Chuck D, Fischerspooner, Devendra Banhart, Margaret Cho, Susan Sarandon, and Steve Earle, among a few others. It was an ambitious event benefiting a “Bring ‘Em Home Now” reading tour to pair Sheehan with authors in 15 cities in April, and the message was…

Mar 20, 2006

It just dawned on me that it was unfair to give the Grossest Club At SXSW This Year award to Eternal on Thursday without at least giving honorable...

Mar 20, 2006

New New York and Arlen live again

Mar 20, 2006

It’s amazing how easy it is to forget to eat at SXSW. With bands performing pretty much around the clock, food usually plays about sixth fiddle to...

Mar 18, 2006

Neko Case regrets her camel toe.

Mar 18, 2006

It’s never been easy to get quality sleep during SXSW, and with so many great day parties and afterparties, it’s proving to be even more difficult...

Mar 18, 2006

It’s Day Three, and fatigue sets in. It will be defeated by the power of rock eventually, but at one point, South By Southwest becomes an endurance...

Mar 17, 2006

People love to complain about SXSW—the long lines, the countless shitty bands, the long lines, the industry people who are only interested in moving...