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Warp’s Artificial Intelligence compilation predicted the sounds of today, yesterday

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With “Shoop,” Salt-N-Pepa took control professionally and sexually

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 it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In th

2014: The (belated) year in band names

December means a lot of things, but for The A.V. Club it means an onslaught of year-end features that require weeks of preparation and inevitably enrage people who think something deserved to be ranke

With The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler went from bathhouses to The Tonight Show

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The Built To Spill Power Hour

When major labels started buying up alternative rockers by the bushel in the 1990s, few would’ve expected that two who’d hang around the longest would be The Flaming Lips and Built To Spill—and both s

Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was a powerful, DIY feminist statement

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 it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In th

Before their masterpiece, the Minutemen asked What Makes A Man Start Fires?

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The A.V. Club boils Blur’s entire career down to a one-hour mix

Like so many Britpop bands, Blur formed after its members met in art school, coming together in London in the late ’80s. Originally named Seymour, the group became Blur after a Food Records A&R man po

Doggystyle changed the way hip-hop reckoned with nostalgia

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“The Power Of Love” gave Huey Lewis And The News pop culture immortality

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 it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In th

60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire

The oral history of just about every punk rock act formed between 1976 and 1980 begins with a common anecdote: So-and-so schmo saw such-and-such band, and realized, “Hey, I could do that.” What exactl

With “West End Girls,” Pet Shop Boys set a high standard for U.K. hip-hop

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 it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In th

The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You” was a golden albatross

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 it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In th

The Stones’ Sticky Fingers invented Southern rock

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Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral captured an aggressive zeitgeist

Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.

Calexico brought its myriad influences into harmony with Feast Of Wire

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60 minutes of music that sum up the venerable, ornery Neil Young

In the original liner notes to Neil Young’s 1977 anthology Decade, the singer-songwriter comments briefly about where his head was at after his multi-platinum 1972 country-rock album Harvest. “I was b

The A.V. Club compresses They Might Be Giants’ 30-year career into 60 minutes

A lyric to a quintessential They Might Be Giants song goes: “You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older.” This is true of They Might Be Giants, inasmuch as the band is made up of pe

Janet Jackson’s Janet proved authenticity can hold its own against artistry

Consider the era in which Janet Jackson’s seminal and sexy album Janet was released: In 1993 the No. 1 song in the country was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and the No. 2 song was Tag Tea

Taylor Swift’s hit-packed career compressed into just 60 essential minutes

Though she only released her first album, the self-titled Taylor Swift, in 2006, Taylor Swift has had a meteoric rise to fame, especially considering she’s only 25. With more than 40 million albums so