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Before The Walkmen, there was Jonathan Fire*Eater
By Josh Modell November 15, 2013 | 6:00pm
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22 years later, Nation Of Ulysses is still a band built for today’s tumultuous times
By Ryan Bray November 14, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Eric André takes The A.V. Club record-shopping
By Drew Fortune November 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Where to start with noise-rock pioneers Sonic Youth
By Kevin McFarland November 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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When They Might Be Giants shifted from accordions to guitars
By David Brusie November 13, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Townes Van Zandt’s “If I Needed You” makes a scene sweetly devastating
By Kyle Ryan November 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Cursive’s Tim Kasher on why he hates Fun.’s “Some Nights”
By Marah Eakin November 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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How a Scorpions power ballad struck a chord for freedom
By Jason Heller November 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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A sultry tribute to love and vice from one of James Brown’s female contemporaries
By David Brusie November 11, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Did grunge really matter?
By Jason Heller November 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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“Steve Biko (Stir It Up)” perfectly begins the last great album from A Tribe Called Quest
By Kyle Ryan November 8, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Pop culture consumed on the sly
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Becca James, Brandon Nowalk, Erik Adams, Sean O'Neal, Andrea Battleground, Oliver Sava, Sonia Saraiya, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin November 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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On “Jenny Ondioline,” Stereolab pointed the way to a retro future
By Sean O'Neal November 7, 2013 | 7:00pm
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The case of the increasingly rare Super Bowl halftime headliner
By Marah Eakin November 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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This Breeders song epitomizes the CD era
By Erik Adams November 6, 2013 | 7:00pm
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A long-running British band finally breaks through by getting laid
By Josh Modell November 5, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Digable Planets’ debut album continues Reachin’
By Paula Mejia November 5, 2013 | 5:00pm
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In 1993, riot grrrl stormed punk’s boys’ club
By Jason Heller November 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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With “Cryin’,” Aerosmith sparked the piercing of a million belly buttons
By Marah Eakin November 4, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Yes, The Smiths were morbid bastards
By Josh Modell November 1, 2013 | 5:00pm
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What's the deal with the onstage sign language interpreters at music festivals?
By Marah Eakin November 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker):10 less-than-cool Lou Reed songs
By Jason Heller November 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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A scene from The Shining inspired a haunting ode to dying memory
By Sean O'Neal October 31, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Where to start with The Cramps
By Jason Heller October 31, 2013 | 5:01am
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How Twilight helped keep a struggling logging town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula afloat
By Marah Eakin October 31, 2013 | 5:00am
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Rob Zombie on loving any and all silent movies
By Drew Fortune October 31, 2013 | 5:00am
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The specter of death hangs over The Books
By Erik Adams October 30, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Everybody, sing along: “God. Gives. Maggot! My. Friend. Maggot!”
By Kyle Ryan October 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Kevin Devine exorcises his hate for Collective Soul’s “December”
By David Anthony October 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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A group from sunny California out-gothed them all
By Jason Heller October 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Memories of Lou Reed
By Annie Zaleski, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin October 28, 2013 | 8:08pm
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“Have You Seen The Ghost Of John” is a kids’ song that actually chills
By Marah Eakin October 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Blood rains and flesh is eaten in Slayer’s hellish “Spirit In Black”
By Kyle Ryan October 25, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The Fall pits “Spectre Vs. Rector” in its most unnerving ghost story
By Sean O'Neal October 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Los Angeles plays itself (and the settings of The Office, Parks And Recreation, It’s Always Sunny…)
By Erik Adams October 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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A beginner’s guide to The Who
By Jason Heller October 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Conjuring the spirits of The Unicorns’ swan song
By Erik Adams October 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Kristin Hersh and Michael Stipe go to the haunted house
By Josh Modell October 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Knapsack’s Day Three Of My New Life both defined and destroyed it
By David Anthony October 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Let Me Roll It” is about rolling a joint?
By Andrea Battleground October 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Say, say, say what you want, but Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson knew how to hustle
By Sean O'Neal October 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The Dark Knight helped spawn a filmmaking boom in Chicago
By Kyle Ryan October 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Live a little, be a gypsy, get around
By Marah Eakin October 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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When Paul McCartney fired the band and hired a machine
By Erik Adams October 15, 2013 | 4:00pm
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With zines, the ’90s punk scene had a living history
By Jason Heller October 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard walks through his band’s big hits and deep cuts
By Josh Modell October 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Kylesa’s Laura Pleasants on why she hates Nickelback’s “Rockstar”
By Marah Eakin October 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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The sweet, simple Beatles classic that John Lennon declared “lousy”
By Josh Modell October 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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“Boxcar” was Jawbreaker’s perfect kiss-off to punk purists
By Kyle Ryan October 11, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Woman is the what of the world? 8 image-altering John Lennon songs
By Jason Heller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago October 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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This is the best track ever written about buying a belt
By David Anthony October 10, 2013 | 4:00pm
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We shuffle around locations from The Walking Dead
By Kyle Ryan October 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Yes, a penguin taught me French back in Antarctica” and other wordy revelations
By Erik Adams October 9, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Where Sigur Rós meets ’80s cheese-pop
By Josh Modell October 8, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin on why he hates Candlebox’s “Far Behind”
By Sean O'Neal October 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Blink-182 took punk to No. 1 for the first time with a masturbation pun
By Kyle Ryan October 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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One of Paul Simon’s strongest songs is also one of his most easily ignored
By David Brusie October 7, 2013 | 6:00pm
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It’s time for Justin Timberlake to come clean about the origins of “Cry Me A River”
By Kevin McFarland October 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
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This boy band deep cut is pure, stupid sugar, but that’s okay
By Marah Eakin October 3, 2013 | 6:00pm
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We visit the hotel where slobs met snobs in Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fight Club
By Sean O'Neal October 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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Sifting through the many solo albums (and names) of Frank Black/Black Francis
By Matt Wild October 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Justin Timberlake deep cut that almost makes Will.I.Am a tolerable presence
By Erik Adams October 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Electric eye: 8 songs about electronic surveillance
By Jason Heller October 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Justin Timberlake’s little-heard attempt at hashtag rapping
By Andrea Battleground October 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Moby takes The A.V. Club DVD-shopping and explains how to DJ David Lynch’s wedding
By Drew Fortune October 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Robbie Williams went from underground hero to one-hit wonder in America with one song
By Marah Eakin October 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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GWAR’s Oderus Urungus on why he hates “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car”
By Marah Eakin October 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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In just one verse, Justin Timberlake turned “Give It To Me” up to 11
By Marah Eakin September 30, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Girls Against Boys re-emerges after a decade with an excellent EP
By Kyle Ryan September 27, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The Broadways’ “The Nautical Mile” is better live than on a VHS tape
By David Anthony September 26, 2013 | 6:00pm
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We visit the historic Nashville studio that hosts musical giants to this day
By Marah Eakin September 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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Mike Doughty wants to believe
By Catherine Lewis September 25, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Quicksand made two near-perfect records, then disappeared
By Josh Modell September 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Nirvana’s In Utero, now 20, succeeded because of its strife
By Josh Modell September 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Genesis’ Abacab is art rock for pop people
By Jason Heller September 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Travis teaches men to differentiate between youthful women and real young girls
By Marah Eakin September 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Fiona Apple’s live cover of “I Want You” finds new depths in the creepy tune
By Andrea Battleground September 20, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Killing the mood music
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Joel Keller, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Mike Vago September 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Sam & Dave gave Elvis Costello the blueprint to an apology
By Jason Heller September 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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We visit the house that made Don Draper
By Kyle Ryan September 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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Where to start with Thelonious Monk
By Davis Inman September 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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Elvis Costello and Squeeze find themselves tempted all over again
By Erik Adams September 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Who put the Zapp in The Clash, The Crack, and Wham!? 8 bands with onomatopoeic names
By Jason Heller September 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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With his second single, Elvis Costello was already fully formed
By Josh Modell September 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The Go-Go’s made history with Beauty And The Beat—and barely survived it
By Kyle Ryan September 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Lou Barlow on why he hates “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”
By Marah Eakin September 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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With “Radio, Radio,” an Angry Young Man turned SNL on its ear
By Marah Eakin September 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: September 13-September 15
By AV Club Staff September 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Walkmen glorify “The New Year”
By Josh Modell September 13, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Writer-comedian Dave Hill on why he hates Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
By Marah Eakin September 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Mice frontman never got the respect he deserved
By Matt Wild September 12, 2013 | 6:00pm
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We visit Jaws’ “Shark Attack Island”
By Kyle Ryan September 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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A beginner’s guide to Paul Westerberg and The Replacements
By Jason Heller September 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Shat Shorts’ spastic energy is juvenile and rejuvenating
By David Anthony September 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Is it live, or is it Oneohtrix Point Never?
By Erik Adams September 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The blatant brilliance of Next’s “Too Close”
By Nathan Mattise September 10, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Janelle Monáe on The Electric Lady and Bo Diddley
By Eric Thurm September 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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Part 3: 1992: “Disconnected”
By Jason Heller September 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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A Beastie Boys sample-source stands strong on its own
By Jason Heller September 9, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos on why he hates “Kumbaya”
By Marah Eakin September 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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Ween’s sweetest moment still leaves fans in the dark
By Ryan Bray September 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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How music’s worst format has found a new life
By David Anthony September 6, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Jon Langford on his aversion to The Flaming Lips’ “She Don’t Use Jelly”
By Marah Eakin September 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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What should be your state’s official rock song?
By Kevin McFarland, Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Scott Von Doviak, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Emily St. James, Matt Wild, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago September 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Walker Brothers finally blotted out the sun with their last single
By Sean O'Neal September 5, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Built To Spill’s Keep It Like A Secret is the sound of harmony between extremes
By Kevin McFarland September 5, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Visiting the Comedy Cellar, the New York hub of Louie’s expanding universe
By Erik Adams September 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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Neko Case talks about being a guy, asshole parents, and making up songs while doing dishes
By Kyle Ryan September 5, 2013 | 5:00am
