True, but part of the article's thesis is that the "electronica" genre is a non-descriptive catchall, so why not include 'em? House they may be, but they still delivered singles at least as popular (and poppy) as the Chemical Brothers.

This. I would also say that because most of the commenters on here are relatively intelligent and composed compared to other online forums I've frequented (i.e., generally write in complete sentences, seem to occasionally read paper things other than People, etc.), they find it easier to make excuses for ugly…

it has keys like a piano. otherwise, it isn't.

interesting…DIK is also the name of the evil frat in Van Wilder…

Good call…Auto Focus fucking rules.

Sure. As long as there's tea sandwiches.

Agreed. Everyone loves to hate a WGWG (white guy with guitar), but the fact remains that there are still a bajillion ways to make the format interesting and relevant - people buy shit tons of Ray Lamontagne records, for instance (though I'm not sure why). As a sometimes WGWG myself, there are definitely limiting…

I would hire Cerie's band for my function.

AV Club Official Film Review Word of the Week: ingratiatingly.

Die, die, die pig. Die.

Yeah, it looks like he's playing the Emily the Strange signature-model Epiphone in one of them. Uch.

Tellingly phrased line from Brokencyde Wikipeda page: "Brokencyde have been critically panned in nearly every publication they have appeared in. The members themselves, while not taking heavily to the negative acclaim, are usually open to any form of criticism."

Kudos for recognizing Playboy of the Western World. A fantastic fucking play, not to mention hysterically funny, and pretty under-appreciated these days.

I beg to differ. So so hot in Crazy Heart…

Cake? trombones are totally dark and fucked up.

Gosselar seems like the kind of guy who gets a big kick out of coming into an all-night diner with an expensive suit and stiffing the waitress on a tip for his plate of pancakes and scotch. Additionally, his serious-actor-scowl face looks like a eight-year-old whose mother has denied him a new action figure.

I was watching one of the older (4th-5th) season episodes recently, and there is a scene in the Simpsons' kitchen where Homer and Marge are having a conversation, during which Marge is making bacon and pouring the grease into an empty can. It has no relevance to the conversation or what's occurring in the episode, yet…

Go back to Pitchfork!
Apparently, there's no room for hip-hop love here at the AV Club. I'd never heard of this guy before I read this - he seems pretty cool. I like his drawl.

Neutral Milk Hotel

i bet
Diplo did the music for this ad on his Blackberry, after stealing his beats from some Blackpeople. bad electro = least funny thing imaginable. where are the sousaphones? the accordions? the bag-pipes?