6/24/16 1:00AM
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God bless Deerhoof for never growing tired of being Deerhoof. In the time it takes most two-decade-old bands to make…
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5/27/16 1:00AM
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Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
4/15/16 1:00AM
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The best promo for PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, came about entirely by accident.…
12/09/15 1:00AM
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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…
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Our list of the 15 best albums of 2015 wasn’t just a one-man decision. It’s a committee call. Each regular music…
8/28/15 1:00AM
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Stuff Like That There roughly simulates the second encore of a marathon Yo La Tengo show, when the casual fans and…
6/16/15 1:00AM
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For most artists, the concept album is the one half your career has led up to. For Neil Young, it’s the thing he…
3/17/15 1:00AM
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Don’t call it a comeback: Modest Mouse will be the first to tell you that it never really went away in the first…
3/10/15 1:00AM
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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…
3/10/15 1:00AM
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A month before releasing his new and first commercially available solo album, Himanshu Suri (Heems) tweeted his…
10/20/14 1:00AM
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An album usually opens with a place-setter that sets the tone for the tracks to follow. These albums set the tone,…
9/29/14 1:15PM
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Its title and somewhat puzzling distribution method point obsessively toward the future, but neither’s enough to…
9/23/14 1:00AM
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“I always liked it slow / Slow is in my blood,” a rasping Leonard Cohen claims at the start of his 13th album, Popula…