Steve Albini

The upstairs room of the pub is packed. Read More

A couple years ago, at the end of '07, Conor [Oberst] called me and asked me if I would come play guitar with Bright Eyes because Mike Mogis was producing a record and it was running on, and they had dates booked and Mike couldn't do it. Read More

MuthaWit Orchestra, Leila Adu and special guests perform in celebration of the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Read More

For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. Read More

We all know how daunting—nay, obnoxious—it can be to find holiday gifts for the listener who has nearly everything. Read More

For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. Read More

Around this time every month, The A.V. Club forgets to lock its back door, and Texas-dwelling scumbag Leonard Pierce lets all of his disreputable longhair friends in to spike the water cooler with SoCo and listen to thrash until someone calls security. Read More

I was 12 years old and my family was on vacation in Florida when I saw the news reports on TV in our hotel saying that the singer from a band I was vaguely familiar with had killed himself. Read More

The singer pulls down his pants and wraps his penis around the mic stand. Read More

Local labels, musicians, and clubs are rallying to the aid of Gary "Elvis" Schepers, who's been at Swedish Covenant Hospital since December 11, fighting an infection in his left foot that at one point threatened to cost him his leg. Read More