Deconstruction

Storyteller, songwriter, and road-blazing troubadour Cory Branan is about to unleash his new album for Bloodshot Records called MUTT. Read More

Prior to reading Henry Mancini…Reinventing Film Music , I associated Henry Mancini exclusively with his piece, "The Baby Elephant Walk". Read More

When artists and producers began to draw on the sonic palette of video games sometime in the past decade, it largely felt like an exercise in nostalgia; a generation reared on Nintendo was rediscovering and repurposing the sounds that shaped their childhood imaginations via 8-bit remixes and ultra-niche genres like nerdcore and chiptune. Read More

As Rush prepares for the June 12, 2012, release of its long-awaited studio project Clockwork Angels, questions about the band's continuing absence in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were bound to come up. Read More

It seems to me that one's relationship to the monolithic Opera -- with a capital "O" -- is rarely love at first sight. Read More

Grooveshark, Jango, Last.fm, MOG, Pandora, Slacker, Spotify and other services are slugging it out for streaming music supremacy. Read More

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club. Read More

Death Grips come from this planet—or at least they are passing through Sacramento right now—but their music comes from other worlds and other futures, or maybe the one exact night in 1987 when a guy in a Max Headroom mask took over Chicago's television airwaves for 90 seconds of high-volume high-contrast media hijacking. Read More

Grooveshark, Jango, Last.fm, MOG, Pandora, Slacker, Spotify and other services are slugging it out for streaming music supremacy. Read More

Every now and then the rock gods breathe a pleased sigh of satisfaction and bestow an absolute sonic gem on our collective earholes. Read More