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Joel RL Phelps is indie rock’s best-kept secret
By Jason Heller August 13, 2014 | 5:00am
The Cure ditched the wallowing and tried to get laid
By Josh Modell August 12, 2014 | 6:00pm
“96 Tears” took one small step for underground music
By Ryan Bray August 12, 2014 | 5:00am
“Let’s Go Crazy” is frenzy-inducing perfection
By Marah Eakin August 11, 2014 | 6:00pm
Nick Thune on the incredibly embarrassing reason he hates “1st Of Tha Month”
By Marah Eakin August 11, 2014 | 5:00am
A knockoff Samoa, a doom-metal act, and the quotable Rob Lowe
By Becca James, Marah Eakin, Jason Heller August 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Wings Hauser snarls a sleazy anthem to big-city fear
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 8, 2014 | 5:00pm
Bob Seger and Eddie Murphy go deep, deep, deep undercover
By Sean O'Neal August 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
All 22 bands The A.V. Club saw at Poland’s Off Festival, reviewed
By Marah Eakin August 6, 2014 | 2:00pm
Robots, wrestlers, and punk-rock parrots: 15 proven gimmicks to get your band noticed
By Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Mike Vago, Jason Heller August 6, 2014 | 5:00am
You got the touch! You got the power! Yeah!
By Josh Modell August 5, 2014 | 6:00pm
Lollapalooza 2014: Alone at the mega-festival
By Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya August 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Introducing the bands: 22 songs that double as band histories and/or mission statements
By Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Drew Toal, Molly Eichel, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Rowan Kaiser, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi, Mike Vago August 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Anthrax’s ode to Judge Dredd became thrash metal’s missing link
By David Anthony August 1, 2014 | 5:00pm
Suicide arrived on the back of a flaming motorcyle
By Sean O'Neal July 31, 2014 | 6:00pm
The cartoon caveman who inspired David Bowie
By Erik Adams July 30, 2014 | 6:00pm
We’re giving away two spots on Motörhead’s Motörboat cruise
By David Anthony July 29, 2014 | 9:30pm
A Wedding Present deep cut pays tribute to a cult superhero
By Josh Modell July 29, 2014 | 6:00pm
Usher’s Confessions rode fictionalized scandal to the top of the charts
By Evan Rytlewski July 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Hip-Hop Family Tree ’s Ed Piskor on The Rake’s wack “Street Justice”By Oliver Sava July 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Beyoncé and Jay Z’s On The Run tour plays like the best movie of 2014
By Anne T. Donahue July 28, 2014 | 5:00am
As AC/DC proved, there’s nothing sexy about muddled metaphors
By David Anthony July 25, 2014 | 5:00pm
Merge Records’ Laura Ballance curates a 25-hour playlist of the label’s best LPs
By Amy Plitt July 25, 2014 | 5:00am
Katy Perry offers her sexiest poop joke
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
Rick Moody writes about and interviews Peter Bauer of The Walkmen
By Rick Moody July 24, 2014 | 4:00pm
Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor picks his top 5 songs about prison
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
“Paradise By The Dashboard Light” is intentionally unsexy
By Sonia Saraiya July 23, 2014 | 6:00pm
Jonah Ray on his intense, burning hatred for Sublime’s “What I Got”
By Marah Eakin July 23, 2014 | 5:00am
R. Kelly has designs on your posterior
By Josh Modell July 22, 2014 | 6:00pm
We Are The World united America’s biggest pop stars to make us feel betterBy Eric Thurm July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Bigger and bitchier: A superlative rundown of the best records of 2014 so far
By Evan Rytlewski, kenneth-partridge, Chris Mincher, Jason Heller, Eric Thurm, Annie Zaleski, David Brusie, David Anthony, Ryan Bray, Josh Terry, Jonah Bayer, Kyle Fowle, Marah Eakin, Paula Mejia July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
On grinding, public boners, and Next’s “Too Close”
By Marah Eakin July 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
Beck and a head-butting St. Vincent amped up 2014’s Pitchfork Music Festival
By Kayla Reed, Eric Thurm, Josh Modell, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin July 21, 2014 | 5:30pm
Minus Michael: The other Jacksons’ solo work deserves another listen
By Jason Heller July 21, 2014 | 5:00am
A kawaii single, vaporwave, and some crazy dancing clips
By Becca James, Marah Eakin, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 19, 2014 | 5:00am
“Weird Al” made an eccentric epic with “Albuquerque”
By David Anthony July 18, 2014 | 5:00pm
Unraveling a fantasy: A beginner’s guide to Japanese idol pop
By Abigail Covington July 18, 2014 | 5:00am
“Weird Al” Yankovic answers our 11 Questions
By Marah Eakin July 18, 2014 | 5:00am
“Another One Rides The Bus” is “Weird Al” at his purest
By Sean O'Neal July 17, 2014 | 4:00pm
What’s your favorite song of the year so far?
By Evan Rytlewski, kenneth-partridge, Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, David Brusie, Josh Modell, Eric Thurm, David Anthony, Becca James, Erik Adams, Sean O'Neal, Andrea Battleground, Josh Terry, Sonia Saraiya, Jesse Hassenger, Alasdair Wilkins, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Where Weird Al and Martin Scorsese meet: Neverland
By Josh Modell July 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
“Do your best and don’t worry”: 7 uplifting Morrissey songs
By Jason Heller July 16, 2014 | 5:00am
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s Devo parody is more Devo than the real thing
By Erik Adams July 15, 2014 | 6:00pm
With When I Was Cruel , Elvis Costello made a return to formlessness
By kenneth-partridge July 15, 2014 | 5:00am
SNL ’s Vanessa Bayer on why she hates the watery insult behind “Tomorrow”By Marah Eakin July 15, 2014 | 5:00am
Can anything truly be called “song of the summer” anymore?
By Sean O'Neal, Marah Eakin July 14, 2014 | 5:00am
A friendly novel, a coffee-table rock book, and some Magritte
By Josh Modell, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya July 12, 2014 | 5:00am
Lifetime found ways to channel its youth on its reunion record
By David Anthony July 11, 2014 | 5:00pm
In 1962, the Williamsburg Bridge inspired a comeback—not indie, but Sonny
By Jason Heller July 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
Has ’90s punk stood the test of time?
By David Anthony, Josh Modell, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Loretta Lynn’s true comeback came four years after the first one
By Erik Adams July 9, 2014 | 6:00pm
Johnny Cash humbles himself after a hedonistic history
By Marah Eakin July 8, 2014 | 6:00pm
With Speakerboxxx/The Love Below , Outkast heralded the decline of gangster rap
By Jonah Bromwich July 8, 2014 | 5:00am
We’ll play guitar and video games
By Josh Modell July 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
Folk is 2014’s heaviest music
By Jason Heller July 7, 2014 | 5:00am
LPs from the Congo, Canada, and Milwaukee
By Erik Adams, Jason Heller, Marah Eakin July 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Brian Eno and David Byrne put the empty American dialogue to music
By Sean O'Neal July 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Superman and Sonic Youth are fairy tales—it’s time to face the truth
By Josh Modell July 3, 2014 | 6:00pm
Where to start with the harsh, mechanized beat of industrial
By Jason Heller July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Did the American Dream fail Iron And Wine?
By Marah Eakin July 2, 2014 | 6:00pm
Elliott’s “Calm Americans” was a call to arms that no one followed
By David Anthony July 1, 2014 | 6:00pm
For Max Silvestri, hating “Bulls On Parade” recalls a painful adolescence
By Josh Modell July 1, 2014 | 5:00am
“Save The Last Dance For Me” is a secret ode to obsessive love
By Beth Gaston July 1, 2014 | 5:00am
On Weezer’s most underrated album, the band brought its own fireworks
By Erik Adams June 30, 2014 | 6:00pm
Soundgarden both redefined and transcended grunge on 1994’s Superunknown
By Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Chris Mincher, Jason Heller June 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Beach Slang offers up the summer anthem of a bygone era
By David Anthony June 27, 2014 | 5:00pm
Arthur Russell says, this summer, “Let’s Go Swimming”
By Sean O'Neal June 26, 2014 | 4:00pm
An anthem for memories that are more than haircuts and jackets
By Erik Adams June 25, 2014 | 6:00pm
I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands
By Josh Modell June 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
For Smokey Robinson, A Quiet Storm was also a perfect one
By Jason Heller June 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Forget “Summertime”— Jurassic 5’s “Concrete Schoolyard” is the hot weather jam
By Marah Eakin June 23, 2014 | 6:00pm
A “twee” book, a ridiculous board game, and an old how-to tome
By Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning, Jason Heller June 21, 2014 | 5:00am
What bands deserve musicals?
By Caroline Siede, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Zack Handlen, Genevieve Valentine, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Brandon Nowalk, Alasdair Wilkins, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago June 20, 2014 | 5:00am
“Skid Row (Downtown)” is the refrain of everyone destined to become plant food
By Sean O'Neal June 19, 2014 | 6:00pm
We’re giving away 2 tickets to this year’s Gathering Of The Juggalos
By Marah Eakin June 18, 2014 | 2:55pm
“Sunset Boulevard” sets mutually assured destruction to a catchy tune
By Laura M. Browning June 17, 2014 | 6:00pm
With Lateralus , Tool built a monument to metal’s evolution
By Jason Heller June 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Taking the leap sometimes means achieving dreams—and sometimes means suicide
By Emily St. James June 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
An old comedy album, a new pair of headphones, and some tonka toasters
By Becca James, Marah Eakin, Alison Bridges June 14, 2014 | 5:00am
“Fuck the morals, does it make any money?”
By Laura M. Browning June 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
Colin Newman’s solo debut is Wire’s best album it never recorded
By Sean O'Neal June 12, 2014 | 6:00pm
With Vauxhall And I , Morrissey found room to breathe
By David Anthony, Josh Modell, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Annie Zaleski June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
With his solo project Tony Molina made Japandroids’ celebration rock an ethos
By David Anthony June 11, 2014 | 6:00pm
Bad dads: 19 songs about shitty fathers
By Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, David Anthony, Erik Adams, Sam Barsanti, Alasdair Wilkins, Mike Vago, Marah Eakin, Sonia Saraiya June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
“Beware My Love,” sure, but beware whom, exactly?
By Emily St. James June 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
In 1999, Jimmy Eat World closed a decade—and opened the next
By Jason Heller June 10, 2014 | 5:00am
With “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues,” the Spin Doctors kicked Superman while he was down
By kenneth-partridge June 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Ozzy Osbourne’s solo debut took him on a “Crazy Train”
By Marah Eakin June 9, 2014 | 4:00pm
Comedian Jon Daly on why he hates Green Day’s “American Idiot”
By Chris O'Connell June 9, 2014 | 5:00am
A comic, a book, and a crazy weird instrument
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya June 7, 2014 | 5:00am
The Clash’s best song was a single (that became an album standout)
By David Anthony June 6, 2014 | 5:00pm
Talking Heads puts love in parentheses
By Sean O'Neal June 5, 2014 | 4:00pm
A beginner’s guide to the music of Led Zeppelin
By Jason Heller June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
R.E.M. is sorry
By Josh Modell June 4, 2014 | 6:00pm
Parentheses, The Four Tops, and the seeds of pop geekery
By Erik Adams June 3, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Meatmen’s Tesco Vee on why he hates “Piano Man”
By Marah Eakin June 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Travis’ The Man Who paved the way for Coldplay’s sensitivity
By Annie Zaleski June 3, 2014 | 5:00am
“7/4 (Shoreline)” is a comforting reminder to slow down
By Marah Eakin June 2, 2014 | 6:00pm
A Jarvis Cocker talk show and two excellent new books
By Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning, Jason Heller May 31, 2014 | 5:00am
1994! said “fuck it” and made a lo-fi masterpiece
By David Anthony May 30, 2014 | 5:00pm
A Detroit garage-rock legend made its own savage, trash-talking theme song
By Jason Heller May 29, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Flaming Lips went no-fi with “Put The Waterbug In The Policeman’s Ear”
By Josh Modell May 28, 2014 | 6:00pm
They Might Be Giants can hear you, just barely hear you
By Erik Adams May 27, 2014 | 4:00pm
With the La Bamba soundtrack, America got the chance to right some wrongs
By kenneth-partridge May 27, 2014 | 5:00am
Hot Water Music’s “Minno” turns tragedy into something positive
By David Anthony May 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins on why he hates U2’s “Discothèque”
By Marah Eakin May 23, 2014 | 5:00am
The Cure even finds reasons to mope on the dance floor
By Sean O'Neal May 22, 2014 | 4:00pm
Jon Brion grants you permission to mope
By Erik Adams May 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
