As the year draws to a close and a weary world takes stock of the past 12 months, let us distract ourselves from the…

It’s hard to say who inspired it. Let’s Get Out Of This Terrible Sandwich Shop? Test-Icicles? Snatches Of Pink?

As The A.V. Club has done every year since 2006, we present a bewilderingly thorough list of funny, bad, funny-bad, or…

As the year closes and the world takes stock of what it has seen and learned the past 12 months, The A.V. Club…

December means a lot of things, but for The A.V. Club it means an onslaught of year-end features that require weeks of…

Each year, The A.V. Club encounters thousands of bands, 97 percent of which we won’t remember. What makes a band…

What does it take to stand out in the crowded world of music? Good songs? The right look? A record label and…

‪With the rise of simply monikered bands like Yuck, The Weeknd, Real Estate, Blouse, Corridor, Cave, and others,…

A new year means more than crowded gyms for a few weeks: All across the world, people are vowing to make 2011 the year…

So many factors influence the naming of a band—musical style, location, attitude, goals, personalities, desperate need…

Each year, The A.V. Club receives hundreds of albums, thousands of press releases, and several thousand more show…

Each year, The A.V. Club receives hundreds of albums, thousands of press releases, and several thousand more show…

Regular blog readers may remember my mid-year tally of the worst band names we'd encountered, a glimpse of the…

We see a lot of band names here at The A.V. Club. Late last year, I started keeping a list of the worst ones I saw,…