Comedy: Best of: The best comedy albums of 2012
When The A.V. Club ranked 2011’s best comedy albums, it seemed like the year had provided almost too much good stuff for us to digest. But 2012 trumped it handily, with a bounty of solid albums from...
View ArticleMusic: Best of: The best music of 2012
Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months, dispersing 100 points over a maximum of 20 albums, awarding no more than 15 points to a single...
View ArticleMusic: Best of: The best music of 2012: The ballots
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 writers, each of whom is given 100 points to distribute over no more than 20 of...
View ArticleMusic: For Our Consideration: 40 great songs in 40(ish) sentences
The truth about any kind of group “best of” list is that it’s always going to trend toward conventionality, if only because there are always going to be a handful of movies, books, TV shows, and...
View ArticleMusic: Loud: Loud’s best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012
Each month in Loud, Jason Heller and John Semley catch and dissect recent releases in the metal, punk, and hardcore veins. 2012 has been a particularly stellar year for all things heavy; these are the...
View ArticleMusic: Best of: Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
What does it take to stand out in the crowded world of music? Good songs? The right look? A record label and management who know what they’re doing? Maybe. Or you could just have a preposterous name...
View ArticleMusic: Survey Says: Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof...
While The A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools to think that anyone really cares what we think. After all, we’re not famous. That’s...
View ArticleComedy: Best of: The best podcasts of 2012
For our third year of rating the year’s best podcasts, we revisited how we did it the first time around. That is, we nixed from contention any nationally syndicated radio programs and opened the floor...
View ArticleMusic: Best of: The least essential albums of 2012
Every year, The A.V. Club mines its CD stacks, digital downloads, and inboxes looking for the least essential albums of the year. We’re not looking for bombs or duds, but rather for records whose very...
View ArticleMusic: Survey Says: Adam Scott, the Sklar Brothers, and GWAR’s Oderus...
While The A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools to think that anyone really cares what we think. After all, we’re not famous. That’s...
View ArticleFilm: Best of: The best films of 2012
From the gut-wrenching, step-by-step chronology of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad to seafaring cultists practicing Scientology-like rituals in the wake of World War II to the...
View ArticleFilm: Best of: The worst films of 2012
So far, The A.V. Club has looked at the best films of 2012 and put a spotlight on the films we consider to be the year’s most essential. Here are our picks for the worst the year had to offer. 20. We...
View ArticleMusic: Survey Says: Bob Mould, Maria Bamford, Neil Hamburger, and others...
While the A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools to think that anyone really cares what we think. After all, we’re not famous. That’s...
View ArticleFilm: Best of: The best film scenes of 2012
Every year provides plenty of films worth cherishing, but there are isolated scenes and moments, too, that are equally unforgettable. Sometimes they epitomize a film’s greatness, and other times they...
View ArticleBest Of 2012: Cheap Toy Roundup: Cheap toy roundup: 2012 edition
Every year, The A.V. Club ventures into the skeeziest, sleaziest dollar stores that haven’t yet collapsed under the weight of their own grime, and scans the shelves and walls for the toys that convey...
View ArticleTV: Best of: The best TV of 2012
It’s becoming a cliché to say, “This was a great year for television,” but 2012 was yet another great year for television, with some of the most acclaimed dramas of all time still going strong, even...
View ArticleTV: Best of: The best TV series of 2012: The ballots
Thirty A.V. Club contributors voted for more than 120 separate television series in our survey of the best TV had to offer in 2012. (That means there are approximately 90 other series we felt deserved...
View ArticleTV: Best of: Beyond the top 30: Our favorite episodes of shows that didn’t...
There’s so much good TV on right now that it’s impossible to confine to one list of 30 shows. As always, we’ve come up with a supplemental list of our favorite episodes of many other series that...
View ArticleTV: For Our Consideration: 2012: The year of the half-hour TV show
For years now, hourlong dramas have been TV’s greatest claim to the title of “the only art form that matters.” If you’re going to argue with someone at a party that TV is better than movies right...
View ArticleTV: Best of: The worst TV of 2012
An artistic golden age isn’t possible without the garbage to weigh that gold against. And in the case of at least one of the shows on our list of the 10 worst TV series to debut in the United States...
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