Josh Terry

6/9/17

Cigarettes After Sex, Alt-J, Big Thief, and more in this week’s music reviews

[Partisan]

Josh Modell,

Gwen Ihnat,

Alex McLevy,

kenneth-partridge,

and Josh Terry

PublishedJune 9, 2017

5/19/17

Wavves, Land Of Talk, (Sandy) Alex G, and more in this week’s music reviews

[Ghost Ramp]

Alex McLevy,

Sean O'Neal,

Kelsey J. Waite,

Josh Terry,

Danette Chavez,

and Annie Zaleski

PublishedMay 19, 2017

2/10/15

Father John Misty tackles romance on the masterful I Love You, Honeybear

Following a lengthy stint as a brooding solo singer-songwriter and as the drummer for choral-folk outfit Fleet…

Josh Terry

PublishedFebruary 10, 2015

1/13/15

Justin Townes Earle delivers a worthy companion album in Absent Fathers

On Justin Townes Earle’s last album, Single Mothers, the folky troubadour was especially intimate, explaining his…

Josh Terry

PublishedJanuary 13, 2015

12/8/14

Best music of 2014: The ballots

Our main list of the year’s best albums doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s tallied from ballots by a group of…

Eric Thurm,

Josh Modell,

Sean O'Neal,

Ryan Bray,

Andrea Battleground,

Josh Terry,

Cameron Scheetz,

Kyle Fowle,

Marah Eakin,

and Clayton Purdom

PublishedDecember 8, 2014

12/8/14

The 20 best albums of 2014

Every year, The A.V. Club invites our regular music writers and staff to pick their favorite albums of the past 12…

Eric Thurm,

Josh Modell,

Sean O'Neal,

Ryan Bray,

Andrea Battleground,

Josh Terry,

Cameron Scheetz,

Kyle Fowle,

Marah Eakin,

and Clayton Purdom

PublishedDecember 8, 2014

11/11/14

A marquee cast of folk musicians inoffensively render Bob Dylan’s lyrics

After a tension-filled tour and a life-threatening motorcycle accident, Bob Dylan famously holed up in his Big Pink…

Josh Terry

PublishedNovember 11, 2014

9/2/14

Blonde Redhead’s quiet, listless reinvention on Barragán

Throughout Blonde Redhead’s 21-year history, the band has undergone a series of gradual but still drastic…

Josh Terry

PublishedSeptember 2, 2014

8/5/14

Chicago’s Twin Peaks make youthful, compelling garage-rock on Wild Onion

Before the 2013 release of Twin Peaks’ debut album Sunken, three of its four members dropped out of their first…

Josh Terry

PublishedAugust 5, 2014

7/22/14

Bigger and bitchier: A superlative rundown of the best records of 2014 so far

If 2013’s crop of albums made for an embarrassment of rock riches, 2014 has been a bit more sedate. Plenty of good…

Eric Thurm,

Ryan Bray,

Josh Terry,

Jonah Bayer,

Kyle Fowle,

Marah Eakin,

and Paula Mejia

PublishedJuly 22, 2014

7/17/14

What’s your favorite song of the year so far?

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

PublishedJuly 17, 2014

7/15/14

Jungle’s nu-disco is competent and sleek, but not much more

If anything, Jungle knows how to market itself. In 2013, the London-based collective whose founding two members…

Josh Terry

PublishedJuly 15, 2014

6/17/14

On the stunning Familiars, The Antlers battle with the past

The Antlers’ frontman Peter Silberman recently compared listening to his old music, namely 2009’s Hospice, to the…

Josh Terry

PublishedJune 17, 2014

6/3/14

The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser charms on his theatrical solo debut

Before The Walkmen announced an “extreme hiatus” last year, the New York City-based outfit was six solid albums…

Josh Terry

PublishedJune 3, 2014

4/22/14

On a dreamy debut album, Fear Of Men weighs the head and the heart

Consisting of art school-educated romantics, U.K. dream-pop trio Fear Of Men formed in 2011 after guitarist Daniel…

Josh Terry

PublishedApril 22, 2014

12/24/12

Mike Rosenberg of Passenger can’t stand Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”

In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they…

Josh Terry

PublishedDecember 24, 2012

12/18/12

Cheer up: Here's a video of Alison Brie rapping and Danny Pudi beatboxing

It's only Tuesday and Community's Feb. 7 return date still feels like an eternity away. To help you through the…

Josh Terry

PublishedDecember 18, 2012

12/13/12

Hear a danceable new Foals track, "My Number"

Foals are building up to the Feb. 12 release date of their third album, Holy Fire, by premiering the studio version…

Josh Terry

PublishedDecember 13, 2012

12/13/12

Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia

Even though fans helped Thurston Moore retrieve his stolen white Fender Jazzmaster after it went missing for 13…

Josh Terry

PublishedDecember 13, 2012

12/13/12

Watch an exclusive Ben Folds Five performance of "Do It Anyway"

Coming off the release of The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, Ben Folds Five has been touring and performing to…

Josh Terry

PublishedDecember 13, 2012