When The A.V. Club ranked 2011’s best comedy albums, it seemed like the year had provided almost too much good…
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With its self-titled fourth record, Tennessee deathcore band Whitechapel appears to have finally come into its own.…
The opening monologue is a late-night talk-show staple. It’s usually the least interesting bit, and mostly just…
Hot Chip has always been a little quirky. The London synth-pop group is known for a noisy repertoire and an…
Every Denver comic eventually comes to this decision: to move or not to move. We’re a small city with big-time…
Two years between albums is a relatively short period for Monica. Inspired, perhaps, by the comparative success of…
The third full-length from Bear In Heaven, I Love You, It’s Cool, opens on a high with “Idle Heart,” a pulsing…
The new Black Mountain album is only partly that. Although marketed as an “original soundtrack” for Year Zero—a…
Jamie Stewart is definitely a bummer. A man of few positive affirmations, he continues on Xiu Xiu’s ninth studio…
We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club. Fortunately, we end up liking some of them. In Playlisted,…
The new Hunx is just Hunx, no Punx. Because, as frontman Seth Bogart vaguely describes, “Hairdresser Blues doesn’t…
A band seemingly never at rest, even when it’s broken up or on hiatus, Cursive has become faithfully temperamental.…
A three-year lapse between records seems to have given The Big Pink a renewed vigor. Not that the band really needed…
As by-the-book as a hard-rock band can be, Chevelle doesn’t deviate much from its own branded sound on Hats Off To…
It’s been a busy 12 months for Common. With a starring role on AMC’s Hell On Wheels, a freshly inked deal with…
Even before the Internet wrecked the music industry, comedy albums were notoriously low sellers, and it could be…
Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. (Since we…
The Duke Spirit has all the right elements in place for a modern rock band: a sultry, charismatic lead singer;…
There’s a Maria Bamford joke about success and how to maintain it: “Make a million dollars, and then just fucking…
A band that seems to get off on being disliked, Brokencyde is like the new-school version of Insane Clown Posse: a…