Zach Schonfeld

6/24/16

Deerhoof revels in its spastic genius on The Magic

God bless Deerhoof for never growing tired of being Deerhoof. In the time it takes most two-decade-old bands to make…

5/27/16

From Paul Simon to Tegan And Sara, here’s what’s coming to record stores and streaming services in June

Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…

4/15/16

PJ Harvey travels the world on the eclectic Hope Six Demolition Project

The best promo for PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, came about entirely by accident.…

12/9/15

What’s your favorite song of 2015?

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

12/7/15

Best music of 2015: The ballots

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

Yo La Tengo’s Stuff Like That There is a sleepy covers set

Stuff Like That There roughly simulates the second encore of a marathon Yo La Tengo show, when the casual fans and…

6/16/15

Neil Young rants about agriculture on The Monsanto Years

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

Modest Mouse’s Strangers To Ourselves is familiar in the best ways

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

With Nine Lives, Aerosmith managed one last gasp of greatness

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

Heems goes deep with the surprisingly moving Eat Pray Thug

A month before releasing his new and first commercially available solo album, Himanshu Suri (Heems) tweeted his…

10/20/14

Instant deception: 14 incongruous and misleading album openers

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

Thom Yorke’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is pretty but unremarkable

Its title and somewhat puzzling distribution method point obsessively toward the future, but neither’s enough to…

9/23/14

Leonard Cohen teases death on the lean, surprising Popular Problems

“I always liked it slow / Slow is in my blood,” a rasping Leonard Cohen claims at the start of his 13th album, Popula…

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