R.I.P. Fred Smith: Television bassist dead at 77
According to Television’s social media pages, bassist Fred Smith “fought his illness long and hard these last few years.”
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The fictions around Donuts reaffirm J Dilla’s legend
Time Capsule: Listening to Dilla’s masterpiece 20 years later confirms its timelessness: in his experiments with tempo, in its decade-spanning samples, in its aural hall of mirrors, in its enduring impact on music writ large.
Nioh 3 perfects a certain brilliantly soulless style of game design
Dumb as a brick and better for it, Nioh 3 is another wonderful entry in Team Ninja’s charmingly mindless video game series.
The History Of Concrete is the best episode of How To With John Wilson that never was
Those looking for more of the same from HBO’s bone-dry documentarian will find exactly that in The History Of Concrete.
Staff Picks: Two Strangers, a cake, and a date with Fate
In the first Staff Picks of the year, The A.V. Club touts a sweet rom-com on Broadway and a Fateful throwback.