Zach Schonfeld's posts

God bless Deerhoof for never growing tired of being Deerhoof. In the time it takes most two-decade-old bands to make…

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

The best promo for PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, came about entirely by accident.…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Our list of the 15 best albums of 2015 wasn’t just a one-man decision. It’s a committee call. Each regular music…

Stuff Like That There roughly simulates the second encore of a marathon Yo La Tengo show, when the casual fans and…

For most artists, the concept album is the one half your career has led up to. For Neil Young, it’s the thing he…

Don’t call it a comeback: Modest Mouse will be the first to tell you that it never really went away in the first…

In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines a song that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what…

A month before releasing his new and first commercially available solo album, Himanshu Suri (Heems) tweeted his…

An album usually opens with a place-setter that sets the tone for the tracks to follow. These albums set the tone,…

Its title and somewhat puzzling distribution method point obsessively toward the future, but neither’s enough to…

“I always liked it slow / Slow is in my blood,” a rasping Leonard Cohen claims at the start of his 13th album, Popula…