Leor Galil

10/4/16

Beef stew, tofu, callaloo: Rapper ShowYouSuck’s foodie lyricism

There’s no shortage of rappers who incorporate food into their work. Most notably, onetime chef Action Bronson…

7/29/16

The best music of 2016 so far: <i>The A.V. Club</i>’s catch-up guide

The best music of 2016 so far: The A.V. Club’s catch-up guide

2016 has been a big year for music, with the likes of Beyoncé, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Chance The…

4/29/16

Bob Dylan, meet Ariana Grande: Here’s what’s coming to record stores in May

Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…

2/17/16

“I am very, very proud of you”: 9 songs that feature real phone calls from parents

Phone messages from a couple posited as Kendrick Lamar’s parents snake their way through the Compton rapper’s major…

12/9/15

Grindcore Christmas albums pay tribute to music’s margins 25 seconds at a time

Grindcore made its first splash outside its insular bubble with Napalm Death’s 1987 debut, Scum, which includes the…

3/11/15

TV On The Radio abandons instruments in search of love

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about songs with…

10/14/14

Pinback helped steer indie rock toward its middlebrow ’00s popularity

In a largely positive Washington Post review of Pinback’s 2004 album, Summer In Abaddon, critic Elaine Beebe…

9/3/13

EDM and rainstorms mar Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival

North Coast Music Festival, now in its fourth year, hit Chicago’s Union Park on Labor Day weekend with its signature…

7/23/13

From Black Skinheads to Pissed Jeans: We honor the most notable music of 2013 (so far)

We’re only about halfway into 2013, but this year already feels more musically exciting than 2012. With albums on…

7/24/12

Purity Ring: Shrines

On the surface, Purity Ring is a sleek pop act with an ear for the weird. Corin Roddick’s off-kilter…

7/10/12

Husky: Forever So

The growing international acclaim for Australian bands like the soulful Royal Headache and the visceral Eddy Current…

11/15/11

Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri and Victor Vazquez

There’s not a single pop-culture meteorologist who could have predicted the strange career path of Brooklyn hip-hop…

11/10/11

Joe Lally

A founding member of iconic D.C. punk band Fugazi, bassist Joe Lally provided the glue that held the legendary…

9/9/11

Hum’s Matt Talbott

On the surface, Champaign, Illinois’ Hum appears to be your average mid-’90s semi-success story that can be filed…

6/28/11

Limp Bizkit: Gold Cobra

Time hasn’t been kind to the once-popular amalgam of metal and hip-hop known as nü-metal, and it’s been absolutely…

6/24/11

Keith Morris

Keith Morris may not be the most recognizable name in hardcore punk’s first class, but as evidenced in documentaries…

5/27/11

Bob Mould

Bob Mould is a musician with a couple of different hats. Most music fans are familiar with “Bob Mould, the…

4/22/11

<em>Best Worst Movie</em> and the cult of <em>Troll 2</em>

Best Worst Movie and the cult of Troll 2

Few artists have rendered the art of failure as enjoyable as Claudio Fragasso did with his 1990 film Troll 2. The…

1/19/11

Still Busted At Oz

Three decades ago, a fledgling Chicago label called Autumn Records released Busted At Oz, a compilation record that…

1/17/11

Mister Heavenly

As far as bands go, Mister Heavenly is pretty new. And still, for some not-so-mysterious reason, the band is getting…

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