projecting their cultural snobbery onto the actor they’re writing about...

I was a day one sign up for the old app (though I got my first 15 months comped because of availability shenanigans) and would have gladly kept paying for the service if they didn’t drop support for Amazon, Roku and Xbox devices.

I’m not usually a single issues guy but Department of Truth has kept me going to the shop every month to see where the hell it’s going.

You do at least twice, probably more as the game goes on. Kind of like the Ciri levels in Witcher 3.

There used to be specialized columns for punk, metal, etc but those all went by the wayside. Even when that stuff was segregated into their own areas there would still occasionally be features and long form reviews of other styles in the main feed but this year, for fuck’s sake, they couldn’t even muster up an…

Of all places Stereogum (who for years I always wrote off as pretty much Pitchfork lite and poptimism central before it took over every other larger music news website) has a better and more robust coverage of heavier, non-indie pop/pop rap/pop r&b than The AV Club. Tom Breihan, even if he’s into more…

Napalm Death is my album of the year for sure. It’s really mind blowing that a band as long running and influential as ND has released their best music in the last decade. I love Scum and FETO, but their last three albums are bar none my favorite work of theirs.

It’s a perfectly fine show to watch on a lunch break. Not uproariously funny but will get at least a few good chuckles out of you.

This is what is keeping me out of it about as much as the initial $500 cost. My back office TV used for gaming is just a run of the mill 2015 era TV (with included DVD player though!!!) that ensures that the graphical updates will not be noticed at all. This might be a 2022/when there’s officially a cut over with new…

How is Stamos going to square this with his other boss Mike Love? Is he kicked out of the Officially Licensed Touring The State Fair Near You Beach Boys?

Kind of similar thing with me. I floated the idea of buying tickets to go see the 50th anniversary tour with my dad as a Father’s Day gift; we misunderstood each other and I didn’t buy the tickets. I was bummed because we always had Beach Boys tapes running in the car when I was growing up and god knows they were all…

Carl Wilson was the glue, especially in the later years when Brian was in and out. I’m not defending their 80s albums at all, because they’re awful, but it only fully turned into the Mike Love Rootin’ Tootin’ Revival Nostalgia and Cash Grab Show once he died in ‘98 and the name got licensed to Love.

Mike Love’s current iteration of The Beach Boys*

I’m reasonably certain they’ve never been mentioned on the site before but The Manges put out a new album today, Punk Rock Addio. It’s right in their eighth note hi-hat, downstroke heavy Ramones worship wheelhouse and as a bonus, they seem to be the one band that did that sound in the 90s that hasn’t devolved into…

I got my Bob Mould LP in on Tuesday and listened to it about four times in a row after work/while making dinner. Shit’s real good.

Ah yes, the show I tried to watch for one episode because I loved Andrea Anders so much in Better Off Ted.

Napalm Death’s new album Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism came out today, digitally at least.

To be fair it was pre-Go On Matthew Perry, when no one knew who he was.

I came in to make a “take a drink every time someone says ‘Crazy Christians’” joke.

Heads up in case the AV Club doesn’t do a separate article about it, the DC Universe App is getting shut down at the end of the year and replaced with DC Universe Infinite. All video content is getting stripped out and it’s going straight comics, which in theory would be fine but it paradoxically manages to expand the…