For more than 10 years, Austin L. Ray has been writing about entertainment and culture. He’s sat in a dark tent with Zach Galifianakis, walked Savannah, Ga.’s streets while profiling its metal scene and discussed Twitter with Robert Plant. When not writing for the A.V. Club, SPIN, MTV and many others, he spends his time fielding facial-hair questions from strangers and searching for the world’s hoppiest beer.
Yuppies are one of those delightful, weird bands that offer smart, slippe… more »
Man Man have mellowed nicely with age, maturing here, rounding off the ha… more »
Each of the last three years has produced a new album from Brooklyn… more »
Despite their gruff exterior, the Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Jesus (Li… more »
It makes a weird kind of sense that In the Red is re-releasing the lone s… more »
Reverse Shark Attack, a 2009 vinyl-only release getting resuscitated by I… more »
Games make a specific brand of starry-eyed power pop full of young people… more »
Fans of Memphis’s Magic Kids will take well to The Barbaras: A prot… more »
These “blood and beer-encrusted recordings from the epochal year 20… more »
Moon Duo’s second LP, Circles, will probably be the best record mad… more »
You’d be forgiven for having forgotten about The Soft Pack in the t… more »
By virtue of their hometown (San Francisco) and the labels they’ve … more »
Bubblegum Graveyard may come as a slight surprise to fans of Apache Dropo… more »
Each Ty Segall record is a new outfit in the garage-rock prodigy’s … more »
“Don’t wanna be chasin’ that rent money for the rest of… more »
“When I play my Stratocaster, I feel like an innocent kid,” K… more »
Guitars are at the forefront of much of Royal Headache’s self-title… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
It will come as no surprise to anyone that Diamond Rugs’ self-title… more »
Torche might be the happiest band in the hard-rock game. On stage, frontm… more »
“I said some things that I shouldn’t have said,” Justin… more »
A lot has changed for Atlanta rocker Jesse Smith in the last four years, … more »
“No turning back, I gotta get out of town,” Jesse Smith sings… more »
On 2011′s Leave Home, The Men unleashed a sprawling, overwhelming, … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
