Marc Hawthorne's posts

1. Jerry Lewis in France
Jerry Lewis used to be one of the biggest stars in America, until America got tired of him,…

1. “Electrocuting An Elephant” (1903)
This list is meant not as a grim catalog of animal abuse for its own sake, but…

Trying to cover something like SXSW is sort of like climbing into one of those booths where there’s a bunch of…

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club, and a lot of it’s too good to ignore. In Playlisted, we…

Cardinal once was a big fish in a small corner of the indie-rock pond, thanks to Richard Davies and Eric Matthews…

Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. (Since we…

Angels & Airwaves has remained busy during its relatively brief lifespan, issuing four albums of epic space jams…

The first (and still best) winner of American Idol, Kelly Clarkson has undeniably powerful pipes. Unfortunately,…

Indie rock is difficult to define these days, but for anyone who spent the ’90s transfixed by college radio and…

One of the strongest pillars of underground music during the ’90s—and part of the lo-fi holy trinity that also…

It’s forgivable to anticipate Owl City’s Adam Young might change up his sound a bit on All Things Bright And…

Sondre Lerche is a singer-songwriter at heart, turning his first-person poetry into little nuggets of personal pop…

The Vaccines like to work quickly. The group recorded its debut album less than a year after forming, and filled it…

Eddie Argos has made a career out of brashly getting things off his chest, using his playful indie-rock OCD to craft…

After bumming everyone out—in the best possible way—with 2009’s Hospice, Brooklyn trio The Antlers has returned with…

1. Dinosaur Jr.
Although singer-songwriter-guitarist J Mascis is Dinosaur Jr. for all intents and purposes, the…

There’s nothing wrong with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe writing the music for a ballet based on a Hans Christian…

Following a marketing nightmare that saw the band change its moniker to Pyramid, then Pyramiddd, then back to Starfuc…

“My counselor, she says I gotta grow up now, whatever that means.” So sings—or yelps, actually—Daniel Smith during…

After starting off with some enticing programming and beats courtesy of British electro duo Fila Brazillia, The…