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Win a Grateful Dead scarf, just in time for the band’s Fare Thee Well tour
By Cameron Scheetz June 24, 2015 | 8:07pm
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In search of a time when Bob Marley wasn’t such a drag
By Marah Eakin June 24, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Calexico brought its myriad influences into harmony with Feast Of Wire
By Eric Swedlund June 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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“Images Of Heaven” is a dramatic deep cut from new wave’s heyday
By Kyle Ryan June 22, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Nine Inch Nails’ “Burn” was Trent Reznor’s first moody film soundtrack
By Joshua Alston June 19, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Romeo + Juliet turned a Radiohead B-side into a “greatest hit”
By Josh Modell June 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The insanity of the Josie And The Pussycats movie birthed a killer soundtrack
By Alex McLevy June 16, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral captured an aggressive zeitgeist
By Annie Zaleski June 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Madonna made a perfect “Beautiful Stranger” for The Spy Who Shagged Me
By Gwen Ihnat June 15, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The Stones’ Sticky Fingers invented Southern rock
By Miles Raymer June 15, 2015 | 5:00am
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Our first (and last?) Pixies show
By Josh Modell, Alex McLevy June 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Soska sisters let loose on the stupid blandness of “Geronimo”
By Alex McLevy June 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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2 old bands that are still kicking and one that’s wet behind the ears
By Matt Gerardi, Josh Modell, Cameron Scheetz June 13, 2015 | 5:00am
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With “Creep,” TLC used infidelity as a means of reinvention
By David Anthony June 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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In 1995, Warped Tour offered fans a true festival alternative
By Ryan Bray June 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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“Blue Line Swinger” finds Yo La Tengo at its epic best
By Kyle Ryan June 11, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You” was a golden albatross
By Annie Zaleski June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Des’ree’s right, you gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
By Becca James June 10, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Four Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny”
By Annie Zaleski June 10, 2015 | 5:00am
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Matthew Sweet was sick of himself in 1995, but we weren’t
By Gwen Ihnat June 9, 2015 | 5:00pm
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1995 marked the end of the major-label explosion of weird
By Jason Heller June 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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In 1995, “One Sweet Day” captured sentimental lightning in a bottle
By Marah Eakin June 8, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Entre Ríos warms up a cool genre
By Laura M. Browning June 5, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The most-skippable Beatles cuts, from “All You Need Is Love” to “Yellow Submarine”
By Kyle Ryan, Gwen Ihnat, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning June 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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Win a pair of Sennheiser Urbanite XL wireless headphones
By Cameron Scheetz June 4, 2015 | 8:47pm
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Icelandic, Hopelandic—who cares? Sigur Rós always outruns mere words
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog June 4, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The least-skippable Beatles songs, from “All My Loving” to “Yesterday”
By Kyle Ryan, Gwen Ihnat, Josh Modell, Becca James, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Cameron Scheetz, Marah Eakin June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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Edith Piaf spoke a universal language even when it was nonsense
By Sean O'Neal June 3, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Reggie Watts takes The A.V. Club shopping for Oingo Boingo records and sci-fi movies
By Drew Fortune June 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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Daïtro made a language barrier a reason to sing along
By David Anthony June 2, 2015 | 6:00pm
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With “West End Girls,” Pet Shop Boys set a high standard for U.K. hip-hop
By kenneth-partridge June 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Pizzicato Five stripped disco to its barest essentials and turned it Japanese
By Joshua Alston June 1, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Win an R.E.M. By MTV prize package
By Cameron Scheetz May 29, 2015 | 7:33pm
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“Ode To My Car” harks back to a time when Adam Sandler was comedy’s king
By Marah Eakin May 29, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Which of your favorite albums is hard for you to look at?
By Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Joshua Alston, Becca James, Alex McLevy, Matt Gerardi, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger, Mike Vago May 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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A Carol Burnett star offered a chilling ’70s story-song
By Gwen Ihnat May 28, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The music industry plays itself at the 2015 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony
By Alex McLevy May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire
By Noel Murray May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die proved that funny songs don’t have to suck
By William Hughes May 27, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX
By David Anthony May 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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Steve Martin unearthed the majesty of “King Tut”
By Alex McLevy May 26, 2015 | 5:00pm
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“The Power Of Love” gave Huey Lewis And The News pop culture immortality
By Annie Zaleski May 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Musical conjoined twins, cute kitten notecards, and a fangirl’s guide
By Becca James, Katie Rife, Caitlin PenzeyMoog May 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Corin Tucker experiences “Groundhog Day” after Sleater-Kinney
By Kyle Ryan May 22, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Rufus Wainwright asks a plaintive New Year’s question
By Gwen Ihnat May 21, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Ra Ra Riot’s “St. Peter’s Day Festival” memorializes a lost bandmate
By Joshua Alston May 20, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Paint It Black celebrated “Memorial Day” by reflecting on its own battles
By David Anthony May 19, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Doggystyle changed the way hip-hop reckoned with nostalgia
By Miles Raymer May 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Watch the Billy Corgan/Marilyn Manson livestream Q&A right here
By David Anthony, Josh Modell May 18, 2015 | 8:00pm
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On “Casimir Pulaski Day,” Sufjan Stevens remembers
By Marah Eakin May 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J on working at McDonald’s and Janet Jackson’s curves
By Nathan Rabin May 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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On The Ditch Trilogy, Neil Young’s success collided with personal chaos
By Corbin Reiff May 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Mountain Goats marry personal emotion with pro-wrestling spectacle
By William Hughes May 15, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Pernice Brothers stalk a beautiful bookworm in “Jacqueline Susann”
By Joshua Alston May 14, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The A.V. Club boils Blur’s entire career down to a one-hour mix
By Marah Eakin May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Mike Doughty’s “Janine” provides an inspired sing-along
By Becca James May 13, 2015 | 6:00pm
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With “Maria” American Steel made selling out sound appealing
By David Anthony May 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Saluting Ronnie James Dio, metal’s uncool godfather
By Brad Sanders May 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Before their masterpiece, the Minutemen asked What Makes A Man Start Fires?
By Noel Murray May 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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“I swear that I saw God” in the Old 97’s “Doreen”
By Laura M. Browning May 11, 2015 | 6:00pm
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A brewery, some reinvented tunes, and a new record from an old classic
By Josh Modell, Joshua Alston, Cameron Scheetz May 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Menomena captures the conflicted pain of missing a parent
By Alex McLevy May 8, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Three Dog Night should have listened to Mama
By Gwen Ihnat May 7, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Clipse’s “Momma I’m So Sorry” is a kingpin’s lament
By Kyle Ryan May 6, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The Intruders’ ode to Mama exemplifies an R&B tradition
By Joshua Alston May 5, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was a powerful, DIY feminist statement
By Annie Zaleski May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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We let one of our dads interview Todd Rundgren
By Marah Eakin May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tracy Bonham’s “Mother Mother” is freezing to death but everything’s fine
By Marah Eakin May 4, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Win a signed copy of Behind The Paint, the book from Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J
By Cameron Scheetz May 1, 2015 | 6:46pm
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Every day’s like a first date on Christmas with Architecture In Helsinki
By Erik Adams May 1, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Coultrain submits to ephemeral love in “Let’s Pretend It’ll Last”
By Joshua Alston April 30, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Sometimes, growing up with a band can feel like a real relationship
By Alex McLevy April 29, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Bauhaus gave an ill-fated romance a fitting send-off
By David Anthony April 28, 2015 | 6:00pm
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With The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler went from bathhouses to The Tonight Show
By Noel Murray April 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Built To Spill Power Hour
By Noel Murray April 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Chicago, win tickets to see Vetiver and EDJ at the Old Town School Of Folk Music
By Cameron Scheetz April 27, 2015 | 6:33pm
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Recapturing romance with At The Gates’ Slaughter Of The Soul
By Marah Eakin April 27, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The-Dream is a complicated pop genius
By Miles Raymer April 27, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Where to start with the many projects of Damon Albarn
By Jason Heller April 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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2014: The (belated) year in band names
By Kyle Ryan April 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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Two sing-along rock records and some pickled fruit
By David Anthony, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Matt Gerardi April 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Aretha Franklin wrote the perfect theme for romantic summer road trips
By Joshua Alston April 24, 2015 | 5:00pm
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I’m From Barcelona demands it all in carefree pop celebration
By Alex McLevy April 23, 2015 | 5:00pm
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“Butter Of ’69” is a catchy trifle from the alternative era
By Kyle Ryan April 22, 2015 | 6:00pm
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In the mid-’90s, The Wu-Tang Clan dispersed to achieve immortality
By Corbin Reiff April 22, 2015 | 5:00am
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Shinobu is done with bullshitting
By David Anthony April 21, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Guy Branum loves national anthems, hates Radiohead’s “The National Anthem”
By Marah Eakin April 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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With “Shoop,” Salt-N-Pepa took control professionally and sexually
By Annie Zaleski April 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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2 Many DJs’ improbable blends made their Soulwax mixes soar
By Marah Eakin April 20, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Where to start with psychobilly
By kenneth-partridge April 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Kate Bush invents the internet with “Deeper Understanding”
By Katie Rife April 17, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Warp’s Artificial Intelligence compilation predicted the sounds of today, yesterday
By Tegan O'Neil April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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For just a moment, Yael Naim gave Apple’s technology soul
By Becca James April 15, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Ladytron serenades a chess-playing computer with surprising poignancy
By Alex McLevy April 14, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Michael Jackson’s “You Are Not Alone” is creepier and sadder than you think
By kenneth-partridge April 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace performs "Pretty Girls (The Mover)"
By AV Club Staff April 13, 2015 | 7:53pm
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The robot who drank himself to death
By Josh Modell April 13, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace discusses and performs “Pretty Girls (The Mover)”
By David Anthony April 13, 2015 | 5:00am
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A portable disco, some fancy oatmeal, and a book about coffee
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning April 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Shearwater’s “Animal Life” balances the human and animal
By Laura M. Browning April 10, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Frank Ocean bares his soul to a cabbie in the album-defining “Bad Religion”
By Cameron Scheetz April 9, 2015 | 6:00pm
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“Stay Useless” is the sound of Cloud Nothings falling into place
By David Anthony April 8, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Clams Casino pushed hip-hop into the cloud
By Sean O'Neal April 7, 2015 | 6:00pm
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With Otis Blue, Otis Redding changed the landscape of soul music
By Kyle Fowle April 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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With “Power,” Kanye West started the decade anew
By Marah Eakin April 6, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Hit it and quit it: 11 bands that split just as they found success
By Annie Zaleski, Josh Modell, Joshua Alston, David Anthony, Noel Murray, Drew Fortune, Mike Vago April 6, 2015 | 5:00am
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The best rock bands of the ’00s, from Arcade Fire to Zwan
By A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Katie Rife, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Cameron Scheetz, Marah Eakin April 6, 2015 | 5:00am
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Noel Gallagher on Liza Minnelli and why running is “for fucking squares”
By Lily Moayeri April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
