3/01/11 1:00AM
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It can be difficult to keep subtlety interesting. On Fading Parade, Papercuts (a.k.a. Jason Robert Quever) hasn’t…
Chris Mincher
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After various stints with a national newswire, a New Jersey newspaper, and publications of The Washington Post, Chris Mincher joined The AV Club in 2007 as its Washington editor and has remained a contributor ever since. Now based in Baltimore, Chris mostly provides music content these days, though his opinions on all subjects are pretty much legendary.
2/22/11 1:00AM
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Although nearly universally regarded as one of the greatest recent disasters in our hemisphere, the 2010 Haiti…
1/25/11 1:00AM
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Signed by Blue Note in 2004, Amos Lee looked like a sure bet: With his flawlessly soulful vocals scratching through…
1/18/11 1:00AM
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If a couple of your friends just got back from seven months of sailing around the Atlantic, and wanted you to listen…
1/11/11 1:00AM
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Five years after its twee-riffic debut, Oh No Oh My tries to shake the “cute” tag as cutely as possible on the…
11/30/10 1:05AM
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It was going to be tough for Steve Wynn to top 2008’s solo effort Crossing Dragon Bridge, a fascinating hodgepodge…
10/12/10 1:00AM
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It’s a savvy, increasingly common model for emerging electronic artists: Instead of hyping self-written music, take…
10/05/10 1:00AM
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Two years after delivering a 31-word album title, Marnie Stern has gone the more traditional route of a self-titled…
10/05/10 1:00AM
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Fran Healy’s solo debut suggests there isn’t much need for Travis to exist anymore: With songs such as “Buttercups”…
9/20/10 1:00AM
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1. The Juliana Hatfield Three, “My Sister”
“My Sister” opens with typical teenage glibness—“I hate my sister, she’s…
9/07/10 1:00AM
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If The Velvet Underground had come up through San Francisco—with all the mellow, psychedelic floweriness that…
9/07/10 1:00AM
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High-spirited piano-plunkers can be astonishingly polarizing, depending on whether a given listener can take all…
9/06/10 1:00AM
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1. Cee-Lo Green, “Fuck You” (2010)
Bitter, depressing odes to shattered romance have been around since people first…
8/31/10 1:00AM
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Philip Selway is Radiohead’s drummer, but as individual musical identities go, he’s the group’s George Harrison:…
8/24/10 1:00AM
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Ra Ra Riot’s sophomore disc, The Orchard, offers every bit of the rolling rural hills that its title suggests; with…
8/17/10 1:00AM
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It’s hard to tell whether Black City is a step forward or a step back in Matthew Dear’s progression as a bona fide…
8/17/10 1:00AM
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Tragedy affects musicians, like anyone, in all sorts of ways; still, Tim Presley’s overhaul of Darker My Love after…
7/06/10 1:00AM
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Steel Train’s influences have always felt just a step behind the times. Debuting in 2005 on Drive-Thru, the band…
6/29/10 1:00AM
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On two impressive EPs, Maps & Atlases crafted a kind of math-pop, where complex rhythms and scales fit into somewhat…
6/08/10 1:00AM
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When they hear White Crosses, Against Me! fans holding out hope that 2007’s New Wave was just a one-off foray into…