Video: One Track Mind 2011: Introducing The A.V. Club's One Track Mind
Hey friends, we're proud to announce the existence of our latest video baby, One Track Mind. The series, which will have an initial run of ten weeks--every Thursday, starting next week, Oct. 27--pairs...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak discusses and performs...
2011 has been a great year for Wye Oak, beginning in March with the release of the Baltimore duo’s third—and best—album, Civilian. It’s one of the year’s finest, so we thought it’d be only natural to...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: St. Vincent discusses and performs "Surgeon"
St. Vincent’s Annie Clark specializes in a sort of blissful anxiety, creating songs that hide sharp daggers behind their frilly exteriors—like a Judy Garland musical as directed by Fritz Lang. In that...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: Ben Folds discusses and performs "The Luckiest"
Ben Folds mostly deserves his reputation as an incorrigible smartass, but some of his best and most successful work is unmistakably melancholy. Folds scored his biggest and most surprising hit with the...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: Mac McCaughan of Superchunk discusses and...
The A.V. Club had a long list of potential songs for One Track Mind with Mac McCaughan of Superchunk. To be honest, we geeked out a little bit, pitching some hail-Mary deep cuts (“Sidewalk,”...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: Matthew Sweet discusses and performs "I've Been...
First things first: Many of you are probably wondering why we didn’t talk to Matthew Sweet about the title track of his classic 1991 album, Girlfriend. It is, after all, his biggest hit and maybe his...
View ArticleVideo: One Track Mind 2011: Eric Bachmann of Archers Of Loaf discusses and...
Indie-rock nerds the world over were delighted when Archers Of Loaf--prizefighters of indie-rock's golden age--reunited for a string of shows earlier this year, and began a deluxe reissue campaign of...
View ArticleMusic: One Track Mind 2011: Dessa performs and discusses "The Chaconne"
Dessa has been recording with Twin Cities-based hip-hop collective Doomtree since 2005, though she didn’t release her own full-length until 2010’s gorgeous A Badly Broken Code, which landed at No. 20...
View ArticleVideo: One Track Mind 2011: Bob Mould discusses and performs “Hoover Dam”
Bob Mould has a deep catalogue that stretches back to the very early ’80s, when Hüsker Dü first began to make its mark on its hometown scene in the Twin Cities. That band would become one of the...
View ArticleVideo: One Track Mind 2011: The Walkmen discuss and perform "We've Been Had"
It’s been over a decade since The Walkmen first got together in a Harlem recording space, the group of D.C.-area high-school friends reconvening to pick up the pieces of the recently disbanded...
View ArticleVideo: One Track Mind 2011: Craig Finn discusses and performs "Jackson"
Craig Finn moved to Brooklyn years ago, but he’s still a good Midwestern boy at heart. He invited The A.V. Club to his apartment when we were in New York City recently, and was a very welcoming host,...
View ArticleVideo: One Track Mind 2011: Naughty By Nature discusses and performs "O.P.P."
For this bonus episode of One Track Mind's inaugural season, The A.V Club headed to The Bell House in Brooklyn for a cozy little sit-down with the biggest-selling act to grace our new series: Naughty...
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