Evan Rytlewski's posts

A breakup is its own acute misery, but nothing hurts quite like seeing an ex getting physical with someone else. It…

Angel Haze isn’t the first rap act to self-leak an album. That distinction goes to Death Grips, who notoriously…

Jay Z and Kanye West skirted the music industry’s long-game rollout campaigns this year with albums that sped up the…

The A.V. Club loves the holiday season, and we also love opening small doors and eating the stale chocolate lurking…

Our main list of the year’s best albums doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s tallied from ballots by a group of…

Every year, The A.V. Club invites our regular music writers and staff to pick their favorite albums of the past 12…

If one picture can sum up the entire year in music, it’s that instantly notorious shot of Miley Cyrus grinding on…

Music has long been championed in film, but usually it’s done via soundtrack. In some cases, though, characters in…

Sometimes you have more songs that you can put out yourself. Here are 12 acts who wrote for other artists.

Some TV breakups still don’t make sense to us. Here are 18 tough-luck couples that should have succeeded.

Since crawling out of addiction and back into the spotlight in the late ’00s, Eminem has found a slam-dunk formula…

Deltron 3030’s long-delayed sophomore album, Deltron Event II, picks up nearly a century after the group’s…

It all began with a drunk dial. On his 2011 hit “Marvin’s Room,” a confession in the form of a shot-down booty call,…

Was MGMT’s Congratulations a difficult sophomore album, or just a bad one? Three years after its release, that…

Consistency can be a mixed blessing for any artist, but that’s especially true in indie-rock, where new sounds and…

This week’s question comes from reader Chris Weiderman: “Sometimes I wish all of pop culture would hit “pause” for a…

In rap’s Internet era, buzz comes fast and easy. Mystery, however, is a much rarer commodity. By disappearing from…

Big Sean’s sophomore album, Hall Of Fame, is all but certain to be best remembered for a song that didn’t make the…

A ton of excellent records came out in 1983, and a good number of them—R.E.M.’s Murmur, New Order’s Power,…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…