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Toads, harmonies and a summer memory in The A.V. Club's archive

Glen Hansard's roadside recollection introduces an acoustic performance with Lisa Hannigan and John Smith during an upload-free week.

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The A.V. Club Story of November 10, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan & John Smith cover The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

Before the guitars get going, Glen Hansard explains why a song about the Civil War belongs in a summer-themed session. He remembers a tour stop outside Baltimore, listening to The Band on a warm night while toads made noises that sounded like people talking. Lisa Hannigan's contribution to the explanation is brisk: "Yes, that's what he said."

That introduction gives The A.V. Club's "Undercover Summer Break" performance its particular charm. At Architectural Artifacts in Chicago, Hannigan takes the opening verse of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," John Smith takes the second, and Hansard brings a raspier intensity to the third. The choruses bring them together.

Nothing new went up this week, but the session has the strongest daily momentum among the channel's highlighted uploads. Elsewhere in the archive, the SXSW conversation with Maude Apatow, Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman offers a look at Poetic License, while Ethan Hawke's interview covers The Weight and The Lowdown season 2.

The library added roughly 150,000 views over the week, with subscribers unchanged at 225,000. Daily viewing is a little below its usual level. Among similarly sized film-and-TV channels, Kristian Harloff and Dan Murrell had busier weeks for views; Oliver Harper and HelloGreedo were quieter than The A.V. Club.

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