Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
It was announced Monday that guitarist Doug Gillard is returning to a full-time gig with Dayton, Ohio king shits Guided By Voices, following Gillard filling in for the band at a festival gig in Cincinnati on July 17. Gillard originally joined GBV in 1997 when frontman Bob Pollard brought Cobra Verde on as his backup…
Doug Gillard is officially back in Guided By Voices, and he and Robert Pollard have already started a new side project. It’s called ESP Ohio, featuring current GBV bassist Mark Shue and drummer Travis Harrison, founder of Serious Business Records and member of The Homosexuals and Double Dong.
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of South By Southwest, we’re picking our favorite songs about the music industry.
Nada Surf has had a truly bizarre career trajectory. If you told someone 20 years ago that the same band that had a slightly gimmicky radio hit with “Popular” would eventually become one of the most consistent indie rock bands around, they would probably think you were delusional. Yet here we are, eight albums deep,…
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost immediately. For most music consumers, it’s almost too much information, and save for those precious few who spend their hours glued to reviews sites and release calendars, it’s hard to know what’s coming out…
For his pair of full-length albums released in 2013, Kevin Devine launched his own label, Devinyl Records. Though he used the label to release both Bulldozer and Bubblegum, his current project—a split 7-inch series that runs throughout 2015— proves he’s in no way averse to collaboration. The first three splits have…
