Tag Archives: AV Club

GWAR take on the election with Boston, AC/DC cover

Posted by on November 8, 2016

It’s not over for another 12 hours or so, but we can’t wait for the election season to end. GWAR share that sentiment, and apparently, The A.V. Club’s AV Undercover does as well. The seventh season of the popular segment finds GWAR once again on the show. They keep coming back because they’re such a […]

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Natalie Prass gives Slayer an indie-rock makeover

Posted by on October 13, 2015

The AV Club’s Undercover series has done some great things recently. They introduced GWAR to a whole new audience, which proved to be so popular that the band have returned every year since.  They’ve also given Melvins an opportunity to cover Butthole Surfers while giving away ice cream to children, and let Reggie Watts do a bizarre […]

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GWAR score an A.V. Undercover hat trick

Posted by on December 15, 2014

Back in 2012, it almost seemed like an anomaly when GWAR covered Kansas’ “Carry On, Wayward Son” for The Onion’s A.V. Undercover series. Sandwiched at the end of the series, it almost seemed like the  band snuck in amongst the indie rockers that populated the rest of the series, in which a band covers another […]

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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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Watch Melvins Cover Butthole Surfers while giving away ice cream

Posted by on August 9, 2013

The AV Club’s Undercover series will probably forever be known to metalheads as where we got to see GWAR cover Kansas‘ “Carry on Wayward Son.” It’s kind of hard to up the ante of cramming GWAR in full costume into a tiny studio to cover a classic rock song, but they might have just done […]

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GWAR Covers Kansas, Features New Guitarist

Posted by on October 2, 2012

GWAR covers Kansas  It seems like only yesterday that GWAR unveiled their latest guitarist, Pustulus Maximus. That’s probably because it was then that the scumdogs of the universe first showed the world the replacement for Flattus Maximus. Thanks to the awesome AV Club feature “Undercover,” we finally have a chance to see him in action. […]

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Our Year End List Of Metal Lists – The First Four

Posted by on December 7, 2009

In less than four weeks, it will be 2010, which can only mean one thing. All our favorite metal scribes and blogs are dusting off their  trusty thesaruses (thesari?) and cranking up the hyperbole machine to come out with their list of the year’s best music. But since January 1 will bring not only a new year, but […]

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