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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion hit its freak-rock peak on Now I Got Worry
A piercing scream opens “Skunk,” the lead track on The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Now I Got Worry. It’s a harrowing first impression, but coming from Spencer, it feels strangely par for the course.
Week 19: It’s the end of the purge as we know it (and I feel fine)
Wesley Willis: Wesley Willis is a Chicago legend for good reason: His massive frame was matched only by the joy he took in singing—and the mental illness that plagued him. It would be easy, especially
With We Are The Romans, Botch helped redefine hardcore
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Big Star’s swan song captured a band—and a genius—falling apart
When is an album not an album? In 1978, the American independent label PVC Records released a Big Star LP called 3rd, which came out from the U.K.’s Aura as The Third Album, with a different track lis
With Outer Heaven, Greys made a subtle, personal protest record
In the wake of the recent presidential election, there’s been plenty of chatter about how this negative outcome will positively affect music and art, with much of the focus on punk rock. It makes sens
Vaporwave is no longer a joke on 2814’s Rain Temple
Vaporwave felt like an exhausting inside joke before it even started, an internet-spawned musical genre that, to the uninitiated, can feel like landing on the 64th page of a three-year-old message boa
Panting at the threshold of your worst imaginings: The year in band names, 2016
As The A.V. Club has done every year since 2006, we present a bewilderingly thorough list of funny, bad, funny-bad, or otherwise notable band names we encountered over the past year. As usual, it’s a
Exploded View’s splintered post-punk debut is a timely call to arms
From its unplanned founding to its improvised, single-take recording process, Exploded View is a band built on chance. Initially uniting to flesh out solo shows by Berlin-based singer Anika (of Stones
Parquet Courts’ raw, animal power evolves into a Human Performance
To say a band is maturing can come across as patronizing, as though to suggest that its previous albums weren’t fully formed or well-rendered, or that its work were the result of youthful foibles or d
Contract space madness with the year’s most cosmic (and adventurous) metal album
Making you mosh isn’t high on the list of Oranssi Pazuzu’s priorities. There are plenty of other metal bands—stronger, faster, straighter ones—that can scratch that itch. This Finnish five-piece aims
Pissing Match Champions: A Year In Band Names 10-year retrospective
It’s hard to say who inspired it. Let’s Get Out Of This Terrible Sandwich Shop? Test-Icicles? Snatches Of Pink?
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion: Side B is glorious, surprisingly deep pop
The best lyric in Carly Rae Jepsen’s best song on her top-notch Emotion: Side B goes, “You pulled a gem out of a mess / I’m blessed / So cynical before, I must confess.” It’s hard to imagine Jepsen ev
Kanye, Chance, and Bon Iver can’t all be wrong about Francis And The Lights
Endorsements of Francis And The Lights come from way up the pop-music power structure: Ever since Drake drafted the electro-pop act to produce a track for Thank Me Later, Francis Farewell Starlite (it
Bloc Party’s Hymns was a musical exorcism for the band
Bloc Party dropped its long-awaited fifth album, Hymns, way back in January of this year. The last 11 months should have given fans enough time to decide whether they could get on board with the band’
Isaiah Rashad’s low-key, masterful new album is a Southern rap classic
What you hear first is the pastiche: the easy nods to A Tribe Called Quest, the snap of sleepy OutKast drums, and the references to Southern stalwarts like Curren$y and Silkk Da Shocka. But something
Lucy Dacus somehow made the familiar sound new on No Burden
Lucy Dacus’ debut album reminds me of so many things that I already love that its only downside might be a sense of overfamiliarity, even on first listen. But No Burden isn’t too much of a good thing;
Spend an hour getting to know Future, the best and bleakest rapper alive
Rap is a game of streaks, and few in history compare to what Future did in 2015. After years as a somewhat slept-on, eccentric talent from Atlanta, he released what was supposed to be his breakout alb
Either/Or built the myth of Elliott Smith
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Riot grrrl grew up on Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out
It didn’t take long for riot grrrl to turn into girl power. By 1997, what had started as a provocative, politically charged underground phenomenon had been chewed up and spat back out onto a ringer T-
“Timothy” was delicious: 60 minutes of death-fueled ’70s story songs
Many original stories were first delivered in song format, as medieval minstrels with lutes wandered about various countrysides, composing odes and sagas about lost loves and fallen comrades. Several
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