Good news for anyone who’s ever wanted to feel like a First Lady traveling the country on a book tour: The Roots and The Tonight Show drummer Questlove has just shared the playlist he created for Michelle Obama to listen to while promoting her memoir, Becoming.
There’s something to be said for simplicity in the world of music marketing; sure, sometimes you end up with something a tad too twee or pretentious (looking at you, U2/Pop), but a lot of times, the simplest things are best, especially in the hands of a determined minimalist like rapper Earl Sweatshirt. Although he’s…
Garfield Park Conservatory is an oasis on Chicago’s West Side, 68,000 square feet of “landscape art under glass” where meandering footpaths take visitors through various natural environments like the lush, ancient-seeming Fern Room and the dry warmth of the Desert Room. Much more than a greenhouse full of potted…
As if the twin scourges of populism and nationalism weren’t doing enough to drive the world’s people apart from one another, we’ve now learned that the promise of a global village is being further betrayed by, of all things, how people pronounce “Blink-182" in different countries.
Avengers: Infinity War was an absurdly audacious crossover event, the kind of movie that required having seen a dozen or so movies to completely “get,” with tons of moving pieces that all worked surprisingly well together. It was ambitious, but Infinity War hero Black Panther’s next crossover is a bit less so. As…
If there’s one thing Taylor Swift hates more than the bad girl who was cheer captain while she was on the bleachers, it’s Spotify. She spent years crusading against music streaming sites before finally granting Apple Music the rights to 1989, and then she finally gave up the rest of her catalog to both Apple and…
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…
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…
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