Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
Jonah Bayer
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Jonah Bayer is a longtime music journalist and the host of the podcast Going Off Track. He's also the co-creator of the webseries "Sound Advice" and guitarist in the screamo band United Nations. You can read his work in The A.V. Club, Playboy and Noisey. When he isn't writing, he is practicing Ashtanga yoga and sweating profusely.
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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In the last decade, Brian Fallon’s Springsteen-inspired band The Gaslight Anthem became one of punk’s most popular…
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Nada Surf has had a truly bizarre career trajectory. If you told someone 20 years ago that the same band that had a…
In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines a song that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what…
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At this point in its career Rancid is essentially the modern-day equivalent of Social Distortion in the sense that…
If 2013’s crop of albums made for an embarrassment of rock riches, 2014 has been a bit more sedate. Plenty of good…
We’re only about halfway into 2013, but this year already feels more musically exciting than 2012. With albums on…
Jason Isbell has always been closely associated with the groups he’s been a part of: Drive-By Truckers and, more…
Deafheaven is a pretty polarizing band, and for every person gushing about the transcendental nature of its new…
“Help Eisley tour our new record and spend our lives with YOU,” goes the headline on the Kickstarter page launched…