The A.V. Club
Even more obsessive pop culture coverage available at avclub.com. Posts are from Sarah, or others as noted.
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Nathan starts out his new column on falling in, and out, of love with hip-hop with a lengthy discussion of Common’s hit indictment of the genre.
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Today’s A.V. Undercover just wants a Pepsi. Just a Pepsi.
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Add some hate to your holiday with 18 anti-Beatles songs, today’s cheery Inventory.
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This is an actual photo from an actual movie Paul McCartney made. It is also the reason why My World Of Flops exists. Someone must witness.
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After a while, we really got beaten down by corporate expectations, and as a result, I think we all just wanted to buck against that. It was like a creative straitjacket. Because when you’re signed to a record label, you have to run all your music through them, and they decide whether they will release it or not. After a while, you just want to scream, and hand them some really obscure, weird, obtuse, unmarketable music, but then of course they’d never release it. I think taking a hiatus was our reaction against that. We wanted to free ourselves of that straitjacket. Then, of course, years passed, and you start to feel creative again, and get excited about the notion of getting into a room with people you love, and making music.
-Shirley Manson on the new Garbage record. Photo by Autumn de Wilde
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Hospitality was kind enough to attempt their very first cover on camera for today’s A.V. Undercover.
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Let’s end the week on a bummer note. What are your favorite sad songs with happy melodies?
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Today’s A.V. Undercover makes us happy. Thanks Screaming Females!
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No Doubt announces release date for new album, makes everyone feel old
No Doubt has been a band for 25 years. We’re going to have to start using a bigger font, since we’re all apparently ancient. Way to go Gwen Stefani.
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Nada Surf offers a delightfully light cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” for anyone looking to kick back with A.V. Undercover this morning
