Tag Archives: The AV Club

Broken Hope perform “Mutilated and Assimilated” for A.V Club’s in-studio session

Posted by on August 15, 2017

The Onion’s AV Club must be an amazing place to work. Not only have they had the likes of GWAR, Melvins and Napalm Death cover classic songs by other bands for their long-running AV Undercover series, but now they’ve started having bands in to play their originals. Broken Hope recently participated in the avclub.com’s AVC […]

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Lars Ulrich reaffirms that Metallica is goo goo for Gaga

Posted by on February 15, 2017

The A.V. Club spoke with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich about the Grammys and tentative future collaborations with Lady Gaga. He admitted that Metallica doesn’t just pick anyone to share the stage with, as he said, “we try to cherry-pick them a little more.” Metallica was basically curious what they would sound like with James Hetfield sharing […]

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Napalm Death play by their own rules with AV Undercover

Posted by on August 26, 2016

The Onion‘s AV Undercover series is a pretty great institution. Now in it’s seventh year, bands visit The AV Club’s Chicago headquarters and are thrown in a room where they cover an ever-dwindling list of songs. Once another band covers a song, it’s crossed off the list. Hell, it more or less helped bring GWAR […]

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Wild Throne have something to say say say to Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney

Posted by on September 16, 2015

Wild Throne is pretty cool and their music is solid and quite enjoyable, therefore, they can branch out a little bit from their style to try something different and expect some decent results. That’s what the Washington trio did when they visited the A.V. Club offices and covered Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson’s “Say Say […]

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GWAR pay tribute to People Who Died in latest AV Club cover

Posted by on October 28, 2014

The Onion‘s AV Club has has a feature called Undercover for several years now. In the feature, they invite bands to cover a list of songs, and once a song is covered, it’s crossed off the list. For the last three years, they’ve only invited back one band, and that band has been GWAR. The first year, […]

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Here’s That Cello And Woodwind Cover Of Suicidal Tendencies You Were Looking For

Posted by on May 30, 2012

Portland Cello Project and Alan Sparhawk of Low cover Suicidal Tendencies The Onion’s AV Club has been doing a pretty cool weekly series called Undercover, where artists come into their offices and cover a song from a pre-existing list. This week features one of the oddest ones they’ve done: Alan Sparhawk of shoegazey band Low […]

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