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New feature: Kitty Pryde assembles a mixtape about high school
By Marah Eakin July 31, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Dead zones: Why we shouldn’t overlook recording artists’ worst work
By Jason Heller July 31, 2012 | 5:00am
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Duran Duran bassist John Taylor on some of the band’s most famous songs
By Will Harris July 31, 2012 | 5:00am
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James Dean’s last movie was Marfa, Texas’ first Hollywood experience
By Kyle Ryan July 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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This Was Pop gets snippy over Katy Perry, Pink, and more
By Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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Touring The Doors' Los Angeles
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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How Elton John’s “The Bitch Is Back” said a lot without specifying anything
By Jason Heller July 24, 2012 | 3:00pm
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New feature: Japandroids’ David Prowse recalls a series of firsts
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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Dave Wakeling on the short, successful, fractious career of The English Beat
By Noel Murray July 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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Looking for The Big Lebowski filming locations and what-have-you
By Nathan Rabin July 23, 2012 | 6:15pm
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The Chemical Brothers, The XX, and Blackalicious have this week’s must-hear tracks
By Marah Eakin July 20, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Japandroids, The Men, and other Pitchfork 2012 artists play "would you rather"
By Marah Eakin July 20, 2012 | 5:00am
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Visiting the high-school auditorium that introduced The Velvet Underground
By Erik Adams July 19, 2012 | 5:00am
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Jon Hamm shares his iPod with us, Sinead O’Connor and all
By Marah Eakin July 17, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Vampire Weekend, Gaga, and pouring rain: The A.V. Club goes to Pitchfork Music Festival
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, Steven Moore, Sean O'Neal, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski July 16, 2012 | 8:00pm
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Why the world needs yet another obscure music compilation
By Jason Heller July 16, 2012 | 4:30pm
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Jimmy Cliff on Rebirth, The Harder They Come, and his reggae legacy
By Jason Heller July 16, 2012 | 4:00pm
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The club that launched Purple Rain, The Replacements and Soul Asylum
By Sean O'Neal July 16, 2012 | 5:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 13-15, 2012
By AV Club Staff July 16, 2012 | 5:00am
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Pitchfork 2012, Day Three
By AV Club Staff July 15, 2012 | 5:00am
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Pitchfork 2012, Day Two
By AV Club Staff July 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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Frank Ocean, The Kills, and Passion Pit bring the hits in this week’s must-hear rundown
By Marah Eakin July 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Huey Lewis on Back To The Future, “We Are The World,” and more
By Marah Eakin July 13, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Songs we want to live inside
By AV Club Staff July 13, 2012 | 5:00am
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Visiting the Night Of The Living Dead cemetery
By Keith Phipps July 12, 2012 | 5:00am
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1989: when Beastie Boys, De La Soul, and sampling ruled
By Nathan Rabin July 10, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Trent Reznor made alt-rock’s last stand with The Fragile
By Steven Hyden July 10, 2012 | 5:00am
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Walking the streets of Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village
By Noel Murray July 9, 2012 | 5:30pm
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Wye Oak, Iggy Pop contribute to this week’s must-hear music
By Marah Eakin July 6, 2012 | 5:00am
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The ranch that gave There Will Be Blood its epic sweep
By Kyle Ryan July 5, 2012 | 6:30pm
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Funky Man Case File #19: Ramones bassist Dee Dee King goes hip-hop
By Nathan Rabin July 3, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Prince gives the hard sell in “I Wanna Be Your Lover”
By Jason Heller July 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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July 2012: Nachtmystium, Constants, and more
By John Semley, Jason Heller July 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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Author, songwriter, and provocateur Kinky Friedman talks about his would-be country hits
By Nathan Rabin July 2, 2012 | 5:30pm
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A visit to the intersection of art and artifice, Sunset Strip
By Sean O'Neal July 2, 2012 | 5:00am
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This week’s must-hear music includes Corin Tucker Band and The Avett Brothers
By Marah Eakin June 29, 2012 | 5:00pm
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June 30, 2012
By Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski June 29, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Where to start with the father of “Cosmic American Music,” Gram Parsons
By Nathan Rabin June 28, 2012 | 4:00pm
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A trip through Woody Allen’s Manhattan
By Noel Murray June 28, 2012 | 5:00am
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Nardwuar, rock, and Alberta beef: The A.V. Club goes to the Sled Island Music Festival
By Marah Eakin June 27, 2012 | 6:30pm
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What does it mean to “own” music in 2012?
By Kyle Ryan June 26, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Los Angeles: Griffith Observatory, home of Rebel Without A Cause—and Terminator
By Nathan Rabin June 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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All apologies: 15 creators who apologized for their art and entertainment
By John Semley, Jason Heller, David Sims, Noel Murray, Marcus Gilmer, 1560738667, John Teti June 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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Cadence Weapon
By Steve Fisher June 22, 2012 | 10:50pm
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New York: 1520 Sedgwick, the birthplace of hip-hop
By Nathan Rabin June 21, 2012 | 5:00am
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A reflection on 1988, the year of N.W.A. and The Fresh Prince
By Nathan Rabin June 19, 2012 | 3:00pm
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The secret importance of the lyrics in 2012’s biggest pop hits
By Steven Hyden June 19, 2012 | 5:00am
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No Country For Old Men’s terrifying traffic stop
By Kyle Ryan June 18, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: Mike Scheidt
By Jason Heller June 18, 2012 | 4:55am
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Falling out of love with The Flaming Lips
By Steven Hyden June 15, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Songs we save for a specific season
By AV Club Staff June 15, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: Dent May
By Steven Hyden June 15, 2012 | 4:55am
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Moonface's Spencer Krug
By Dylan Peterson June 14, 2012 | 8:00pm
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Getting started with Brian Eno, glam icon and art-pop pioneer
By Jason Heller June 14, 2012 | 5:00pm
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The sacred sites of R.E.M.’s Athens, Georgia
By Josh Modell June 14, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: Royal Headache
By Steven Hyden June 13, 2012 | 4:55am
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Bobby Womack’s latest exemplifies the profound awkwardness of “art of dying” albums
By Steven Hyden June 12, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Phil Collins was just your average, everyday, kind of creepy star when he made No Jacket Required
By Steven Hyden June 12, 2012 | 5:00am
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David Bowie’s magnum opus remains a thrillingly open-ended concept album
By Keith Phipps June 12, 2012 | 5:00am
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Houston: The Rushmore School
By Kyle Ryan June 11, 2012 | 5:00am
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“If You Love Somebody, Set Them On Fire”: 26-plus masters of clever/weird/cheeky song titles
By John Semley, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Ben Munson, Keith Phipps, Phil Dyess-Nugent, David Sims, Noel Murray, 1560738667, Sam Adams June 11, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: Ab-Soul
By Evan Rytlewski June 11, 2012 | 4:55am
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’70s hitmaker Paul Williams on having his songs sung by The Carpenters and The Muppets
By Sam Adams June 8, 2012 | 5:00pm
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The Spinto Band’s Sam Hughes on bad hotels and fake vaginas
By Marah Eakin June 8, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: The Young
By Jason Heller June 8, 2012 | 4:55am
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A guide to the best (and a bit of the worst) of prog rock
By Jason Heller June 7, 2012 | 5:00pm
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The Cult’s Ian Astbury talks about songs, ignoring the critics, and “sexual modality”
By Will Harris June 7, 2012 | 5:00pm
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June 2012: Melvins Lite, Grand Magus, and more
By John Semley, Jason Heller June 6, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Contest-Winning Case File #17: Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz
By Nathan Rabin June 6, 2012 | 5:00pm
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What remastering My Bloody Valentine reveals about a brilliant, prickly band
By Noel Murray June 6, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Michael The Blind
By Noel Murray June 6, 2012 | 4:55am
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Part 6: Until the day is done (Accelerate and Collapse Into Now)
By Steven Hyden June 5, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Punks and squares alike get lampooned in The Dead Milkmen’s “Punk Rock Girl”
By Jason Heller June 5, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Oddisee
By Steven Hyden, Jonah Bromwich June 4, 2012 | 4:55am
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New music we like: Azealia Banks
By Genevieve Koski June 1, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Walker Kong
By Christopher Bahn June 1, 2012 | 5:00am
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’90s rap in the rearview—an introduction
By Nathan Rabin May 31, 2012 | 5:00pm
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A guide to Bob Dylan, from the ’60s to now
By Steven Hyden, Keith Phipps May 31, 2012 | 5:00pm
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John Lydon
By John Semley May 31, 2012 | 5:00am
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Feist
By Ben Munson May 31, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: 2:54
By Noel Murray May 30, 2012 | 4:55am
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The Beatles Just Got To Go?: 18 anti-Beatles songs
By Jason Heller May 28, 2012 | 5:00am
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May 26, 2012
By Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski May 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Reconsidering Codeine, a ’90s band frozen in time
By Jason Heller May 25, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Kelly Hogan
By Robert Loerzel May 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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Best experiences with ephemeral art
By AV Club Staff May 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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King Tuff
By Chris Mincher May 25, 2012 | 4:55am
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Anthony ‘Shimby’ McCreery
By Jon Graef May 24, 2012 | 5:20pm
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Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino
By Matt Schild May 24, 2012 | 6:00am
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#34: A Little Deeper Into The Bee Gees Listening Experience
By AV Club Staff May 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye
By Sam Adams May 23, 2012 | 5:00am
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Part 5: Feeling Gravity’s Pull (Fables Of The Reconstruction)
By Steven Hyden May 22, 2012 | 5:00am
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Happiest sad songs
By AV Club Staff May 18, 2012 | 5:00am
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Rye Rye
By Evan Rytlewski May 18, 2012 | 4:55am
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Grouplove’s Christian Zucconi
By Drew Fortune May 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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Archie Powell & The Exports
By Marcus Gilmer May 16, 2012 | 4:55am
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New music we like: Nick Waterhouse
By Steven Hyden May 11, 2012 | 4:55am
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Revisit the heyday of electronica with these ’90s dance-rock classics
By Scott Plagenhoef May 10, 2012 | 6:30pm
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Andrew Bird
By Marcus Gilmer May 10, 2012 | 5:00am
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New music we like: Circle
By Jason Heller May 9, 2012 | 4:55am
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Part four: Who threw the crushing blow? (Up to Around The Sun)
By Steven Hyden May 8, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
By Steven Hyden May 8, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Saltee
By Christopher Bahn May 8, 2012 | 5:00am
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What the Tupac hologram says about our unwillingness to let rap’s most beloved icon rest in peace
By Nathan Rabin May 7, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Neal Casal
By Steven Hyden May 7, 2012 | 4:55am
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Michael Gaughan a.k.a. Ice Rod
By Jason Zabel May 4, 2012 | 7:00pm
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Music when you’re mad
By AV Club Staff May 4, 2012 | 5:00am
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Miguel
By Evan Rytlewski May 4, 2012 | 4:55am
