Reminding us all that they don’t exist solely to grimdark up karaoke nights, or periodically let Paul Ryan know how much he sucks, the members of Papa Roach announced a new album tonight—their tenth, for those of you who haven’t been keeping careful track of the “Papa Roach discography” page on Wikipedia. To celebrate…

We’ve just about reached our fill of talking about Threatin, the mostly real band with an entirely fake fanbase that duped a series of UK music venues into letting them play a series of concerts that nobody came to, but now we’ve got a shocking new development in the ongoing Threatin saga that will definitely blow…

We’ll have to continue waiting for the Elton John biopic as its creators finish figuring out how to transfer the singer-songwriter’s charisma to Taron Egerton, an actor who is, notably, Not Tom Hardy. In the meantime, however, British department store John Lewis & Partners has provided a smaller recounting of the…

Kanye West, always one step ahead of the rest, has found an unlikely collaborator: Mark “World’s Oldest Boy” Zuckerberg. In the past, fans may have balked at his decision to work with Bon Iver or Katy Perry, but the results have been better than expected. Now, though, in a year when West has been working tirelessly to …

At first glance, Nirvana and Bobcat Goldthwait appear to have very little in common. But, think again and the similarities come rushing in: Both, for example, were important in shaping the direction of 1990s entertainment, both communicated their art through lots of growly sounds and raw onstage energy, and both, it…

Almost as soon as the lineup for Drone Activity was announced, the snarky social media posts began: “Did you hear about the corporate noise festival?” And the curators behind the show must have seen it coming. Of the monthlong series of events that make up Chicago’s inaugural Red Bull Music Fest, Drone Activity—an…

The Robyn comeback push continues this week: The Swedish techno-popper announced today that she’s embarking on a new North American tour in support of her new album, Honey, which arrived last month. Honey has earned strong reviews (including our own, which dubbed it a “more spacious, sensual, and human expression of…

On Friday, we had the pleasure of reporting on the sad saga of Threatin, a Los Angeles-based rock band that nobody had ever heard of despite the fact that it had tens of thousands of fans on Facebook. Threatin has been on a big UK tour, but even though it supposedly has this big online following, most of the venues it…

According to Deadline, MGM is looking to tap into the big market for musicals and the big market for Chance The Rapper simultaneously, with the studio enlisting Chance to develop a musical called Hope. The film is about a group of teenagers in Chicago who “band together to turn art into action within their community,”…

The cast of Seinfeld always had an affinity for doom. Sure, their hair was kept trimmed, their apartments well lit, and they wore more primary colors than black, but “the show about nothing” understood the philosophy of existential dread on a fundamental level.

These days, Trent Reznor seems to do way more work for film and TV soundtracks than he does making industrial rock music with Nine Inch Nails, and while he does always return to his first love, Reznor told Variety in a recent interview that he has thought about putting Nine Inch Nails to rest. He was talking about the…

Every few years since the 1960s, the White House has taken time out of its busy schedule to pick out a group of distinguished American citizens—artists, scientists, poets, etc.—to name as the recipients of the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, one of the highest governmental honors in American civilian life. Often, it’s…

We’ll be very honest with you here, dear readers: When we woke up this morning, we were not expecting to spend several hours of our day tracking down the identities of the guys who sang one of the most irresistibly annoying ear-worm jingles of our generation, a song that’s been used as audio poison by such intentional…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time.

Charles Bradley came by the raw emotion in his voice honestly. He was really only famous for six of his 68 years on this planet; the remaining 62 were filled with struggle and sorrow, from the nights he spent sleeping on New York City subway trains as a teenager to the murder of his brother Joe, who Bradley described…

In August, some irresponsible pop culture website reported that there was increasingly strong evidence supporting a theory that Vampire Weekend was getting ready to release some new music before the end of September. It’s been five years since Modern Vampires Of The City came out, so we’re all excited to see what…

Eric D. Johnson was stranded. When he called the The A.V. Club from a rental-car counter in Atlanta, the facility was fresh out of cars, bringing a sudden halt to a long day of travel for the singer-songwriter who’s been recording under the Fruit Bats moniker since 1997. Johnson was stranded, but not without support:…

Kid Rock, most of us are thankful to know, was never actually running for Senate. Though both material and psychological damage has already been done by the mere idea of his candidacy, we were previously able to imagine that the world had begun to heal after learning that his bizarre performance art bid was never…

Hopefully you’re registered to vote or live in one of the states that allows same-day registration (look it up if you’re unsure!), because there’s a big-time midterm election going on in America today and it’s very important that you vote. It’s especially important if you live anywhere near Houston, Dallas, Miami, or…

Rihanna is the latest artist to politely ask that Donald Trump not use their music at his rallies, joining an illustrious list that also includes Elton John, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, and Pharrell Williams, who recently sent our messy president a cease and desist that, by this point, is probably sitting in the…