Aug 20 2013
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On 2010’s Everything In Between, No Age cleaned up its sound just enough to bring its melodies to the forefront,…
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.
Jul 23 2013
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Stuart McLamb’s fantastic 2010 sophomore effort, Libraries, put some sonic meat onto the lo-fi bones of his DIY…
Jun 25 2013
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After four years of dutifully traveling the road to rock-band relevance—from high-school origins to forgoing college…
Jun 18 2013
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Emerging on Austra’s 2011’s debut, Feel It Break, as a sort of electro-Goth version of Florence Welch, Katie…
Jun 11 2013
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As with the recent secretive, supremely hyped release of Random Access Memories by fellow electronica legends Daft…
May 28 2013
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In the ’80s, The Pastels evolved the minimalist, garage-crafted punk-rock blueprint into a more contemplative,…
May 21 2013
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After pioneering the electronic dance-music movement in the ’90s, Daft Punk has spent more than a decade watching as…
Apr 2 2013
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The most likeable aspect of Michael Benjamin Lerner’s solo project, Telekinesis, has been its back-to-the-basics…
Mar 19 2013
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After two records of chaotic, sprawling displays of fretboard fireworks, Marnie Stern struck the right balance of…
Mar 5 2013
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After the success of The Year Of Hibernation, Trevor Powers’ DIY dream-pop debut, he had a lot of options and…
Jan 29 2013
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Matt Mondanile was initially known as the guitarist for New Jersey indie band Real Estate, but he has since used his…
Jan 22 2013
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Evolving from the relaxed trance/shoegaze hybrids of his early chillwave work, 2011’s Underneath The Pine—Chaz…
Jan 15 2013
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With Yo La Tengo having now rounded the quarter-century mark (including more than two decades in its current…
Dec 11 2012
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Our main list of the year’s best albums doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s tallied from ballots by a group…
Dec 4 2012
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The defining opus of alternative rock, 1995’s double-disc concept album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness…
Oct 16 2012
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Emerging from disbanded indie-rock outfit Grandaddy with 2009’s Yours Truly, The Commuter, Jason Lytle moved beyond…
Oct 2 2012
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With Lightning, Matt And Kim make the glossed-up hi-fi approach of 2010’s Sidewalks a short-lived experiment:…
Sep 4 2012
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After four albums of the same dreamy, subtle, electronica-tinged indie pop, Stars modernized their formula for…
Aug 28 2012
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Dan Deacon’s breakout 2007 record referenced comic superheroes and The Lord Of The Rings, made an entire song of…
Aug 21 2012
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With 2007’s All Hour Cymbals and 2010’s Odd Blood, postmodern darling Yeasayer proved it’s very good at doing very…