2/24/17 9:00AM
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For nearly 15 years, Xiu Xiu has madly scribbled in a cluttered sketchbook of experimental rock, with enough…
Chris Mincher
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After various stints with a national newswire, a New Jersey newspaper, and publications of The Washington Post, Chris Mincher joined The AV Club in 2007 as its Washington editor and has remained a contributor ever since. Now based in Baltimore, Chris mostly provides music content these days, though his opinions on all subjects are pretty much legendary.
2/10/17 1:00AM
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It seems axiomatic that a solo project should be a more personal undertaking; it certainly is for singer-pianist…
2/03/17 1:00AM
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Amid the deaths of several rock notables last year was the loss of Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete, who died…
1/27/17 9:00AM
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It’s a phase that all aging indie rockers enter: years of breakthroughs that never were, fatigue of the fruitless…
12/12/16 1:00AM
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There’s no easy way to summarize the year in music given how much of it took us by surprise. High-profile albums…
12/12/16 1:00AM
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Given that so many people contribute to our yearly best-of lists, it’s hard to get a glance at an individual’s…
11/04/16 1:00AM
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Across more than two decades, the brand applied to Lambchop has shifted from “alt-country” to “chamber pop,” but…
10/07/16 10:00AM
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In the family tree of music, Midnight Room, Greta Morgan’s second record under the moniker Springtime Carnivore,…
9/23/16 1:00AM
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Beach Slang’s acclaimed debut The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us was a catalog of the trials and…
9/16/16 1:00AM
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For more than 15 years, Against Me! has explored Laura Jane Grace’s private interactions with various political…
7/15/16 1:00AM
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The melancholy, muddied psych rock of Heliotropes’ debut A Constant Sea was an unconventional fusion of husky grunge…
7/08/16 1:00AM
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At the end of The Punk Singer, 2013’s excellent documentary about Kathleen Hanna, the former Bikini Kill frontwoman…
6/24/16 1:00AM
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When Puro Instinct bubbled up with its curiously addictive debut Headbangers In Ecstasy in 2011, it salvaged a…
6/17/16 1:00AM
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The controversies spawned by Paul Simon’s Graceland have never quite gone away; for some, white Western dudes…
6/10/16 1:00AM
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Whenever it seems like the glowingly smooth, wax-slick electro-pop trend of the past dozen years might finally be…
6/03/16 1:00AM
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Those who’ve gone through their late teenage years might remember them as times of very rapid change. Although…
5/27/16 1:00AM
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Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
4/29/16 1:00AM
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Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
4/15/16 1:00AM
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When former Ima Robot frontman Alex Ebert debuted his pseudo-folk-cult Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros with Up…
4/01/16 1:00AM
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Because its sophomore record, NVM, packed together upbeat tracks about menstruation and catcalling, Tacocat is a…