Jan 15 2019
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They said it couldn’t be done. They said it wouldn’t be done. They said it shouldn’t be done. But the Year In Band…
Dec 5 2017
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As the year draws to a close and a weary world takes stock of the past 12 months, let us distract ourselves from the…
Dec 5 2016
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It’s hard to say who inspired it. Let’s Get Out Of This Terrible Sandwich Shop? Test-Icicles? Snatches Of Pink?
Nov 30 2016
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As The A.V. Club has done every year since 2006, we present a bewilderingly thorough list of funny, bad, funny-bad,…
Dec 21 2015
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As the year closes and the world takes stock of what it has seen and learned the past 12 months, The A.V. Club…
Apr 27 2015
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December means a lot of things, but for The A.V. Club it means an onslaught of year-end features that require weeks…
Dec 6 2013
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Each year, The A.V. Club encounters thousands of bands, 97 percent of which we won’t remember. What makes a band…
Dec 13 2012
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What does it take to stand out in the crowded world of music? Good songs? The right look? A record label and…
Dec 9 2011
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With the rise of simply monikered bands like Yuck, The Weeknd, Real Estate, Blouse, Corridor, Cave, and others,…
Jan 5 2011
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A new year means more than crowded gyms for a few weeks: All across the world, people are vowing to make 2011 the…
Dec 11 2009
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So many factors influence the naming of a band—musical style, location, attitude, goals, personalities, desperate…
Dec 19 2008
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Each year, The A.V. Club receives hundreds of albums, thousands of press releases, and several thousand more show…
Dec 13 2007
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Each year, The A.V. Club receives hundreds of albums, thousands of press releases, and several thousand more show…
Jan 12 2007
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Regular blog readers may remember my mid-year tally of the worst band names we'd encountered, a glimpse of the…
May 26 2006
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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,…