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Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we have…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we have…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we have…

After what happened in the early hours of Thursday morning on one of SXSW’s main thoroughfares, any sort of “Hey, we…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we had…

This week’s question: What pop culture pilgrimages have you made?

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

I’m turning 50 in April, but I’m putting aside how shocking that is. I’ve been pulling together a mix of one…

1. Julian Plenti, Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper (2009)
Band members who go solo ought to know—or at least their labels…

1. A friend with a hunting knife performs a C-section on The Walking Dead (2012)
When there’s no doctor around, a…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we sent…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we sent…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we sent…

Every year, The A.V. Club reports from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This year, we sent…

1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, “We’ve Got Tonight” (1978)
Considering Bob Seger grew up near Detroit and…

Scott Tobias asks: In a classic Scharpling & Wurster bit called “Kid eBay,” the last track on their album Hippie…

Albums referred to as “growers”—those that take a while to win over listeners—too often end up being mediocre…

Since approximately the turn of the millennium, Pink has been the most emotionally honest pop singer to approach Top…

What has the world come to expect of The Killers, now that Brandon Flowers and his desert-glam comrades have entered…

For all of the eager brain-twisting fueling the sound of albums like 2009’s celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion, An…