Nina Corcoran

4/11/22

The 20 best frontpeople in modern rock

From Paramore's Hayley Williams to newly minted successes like Sasami, these are the most commanding—and…

Alex McLevy,

Gabrielle Sanchez,

Tatiana Tenreyro,

Nina Corcoran,

and Shanicka Anderson

PublishedApril 11, 2022

7/9/21

The best albums of 2021 so far

From Julien Baker to Rostam, Madlib to Mogwai, these are the records that most impressed us at this point in the year

Alex McLevy,

Mosi Reeves,

and Saloni Gajjar

PublishedJuly 9, 2021

12/15/20

The 20 best albums of 2020

Yes, it’s been a hard year, and yes, we’re also tired of confronting that fact. But the bizarrely repetitive and…

Alex McLevy,

Mosi Reeves,

and Annie Zaleski

PublishedDecember 15, 2020

12/15/20

The best albums of 2020: The ballots

The A.V. Club’s list of 2020’s best albums was determined by 10 critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their…

Alex McLevy,

and Mosi Reeves

PublishedDecember 15, 2020

4/17/20

With <i>Fetch The Bolt Cutters</i>, Fiona Apple hits a zenith of liberation and experimentation

With Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple hits a zenith of liberation and experimentation

During the season-two finale of British drama The Fall, Gillian Anderson’s sex-crimes investigator realizes a victim…

Nina Corcoran

PublishedApril 17, 2020

3/6/20

5 new releases we love: U.S. Girls find the light, Stephen Malkmus gets traditional, and more

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

Alex McLevy,

Matt Williams,

Jesse Hassenger,

Mosi Reeves,

Nina Corcoran,

and John Everhart

PublishedMarch 6, 2020

9/6/19

5 new releases we love: Tinariwen drops a classic, Lower Dens dance it off, and more

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

Katie Rife,

Marty Sartini Garner,

Nina Corcoran,

Matt Sigur,

and Alex McLevy

PublishedSeptember 6, 2019

8/30/19

5 new releases we love: Whitney folks around, Little Brother returns, and more

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

Alex McLevy,

Clayton Purdom,

Randall Colburn,

Mosi Reeves,

Nina Corcoran,

and Josh Modell

PublishedAugust 30, 2019

7/9/19

Fire in the belly: Cool times at Chicago's hot sauce expo

Reading about the New York Hot Sauce Expo online conjures up one hell of an image. Now in its seventh year, the New…

Nina Corcoran

PublishedJuly 9, 2019

6/22/19

The best music of 2019 so far

Just six months into a great year in music, we’ve seen strange, galactic records from R&B innovators Solange and…

Erik Adams,

A.A. Dowd,

Alex McLevy,

Katie Rife,

and Laura M. Browning

PublishedJune 22, 2019

3/25/19

Counting down 13 of the spiciest instant ramens

When winter rolls around and everybody starts getting sick, people swap cold remedies like trading cards, trying to…

Nina Corcoran

PublishedMarch 25, 2019

9/28/17

Primus’ new album about rainbow goblins is somehow its most digestible

Primus is three decades deep into its career of absurdist funk-rock, and if you don’t “get” the band by now, you…

Nina Corcoran

PublishedSeptember 28, 2017

9/7/17

Deerhoof rallies its famous friends to protest on Mountain Moves

Two weeks before its official release, Deerhoof’s 14th album, Mountain Moves, debuted on Bandcamp as a…

Nina Corcoran

PublishedSeptember 7, 2017