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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.
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It seems axiomatic that a solo project should be a more personal undertaking; it certainly is for singer-pianist…
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Amid the deaths of several rock notables last year was the loss of Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete, who died…
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It’s a phase that all aging indie rockers enter: years of breakthroughs that never were, fatigue of the fruitless…
There’s no easy way to summarize the year in music given how much of it took us by surprise. High-profile albums…
Given that so many people contribute to our yearly best-of lists, it’s hard to get a glance at an individual’s…
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Across more than two decades, the brand applied to Lambchop has shifted from “alt-country” to “chamber pop,” but…
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In the family tree of music, Midnight Room, Greta Morgan’s second record under the moniker Springtime Carnivore,…
B
Beach Slang’s acclaimed debut The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us was a catalog of the trials and…
For more than 15 years, Against Me! has explored Laura Jane Grace’s private interactions with various political…
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The melancholy, muddied psych rock of Heliotropes’ debut A Constant Sea was an unconventional fusion of husky grunge…
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At the end of The Punk Singer, 2013’s excellent documentary about Kathleen Hanna, the former Bikini Kill frontwoman…
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When Puro Instinct bubbled up with its curiously addictive debut Headbangers In Ecstasy in 2011, it salvaged a…
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The controversies spawned by Paul Simon’s Graceland have never quite gone away; for some, white Western dudes…
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Whenever it seems like the glowingly smooth, wax-slick electro-pop trend of the past dozen years might finally be…
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Those who’ve gone through their late teenage years might remember them as times of very rapid change. Although…
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
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When former Ima Robot frontman Alex Ebert debuted his pseudo-folk-cult Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros with Up…
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Because its sophomore record, NVM, packed together upbeat tracks about menstruation and catcalling, Tacocat is a…