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Hansard, Hannigan and Smith revisit The Band at The A.V. Club

The cover shares the channel's active archive with SXSW conversations about Poetic License and music criticism.

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The A.V. Club Story of October 11, 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”

The A.V. Club posted nothing new, but its music shelf offers a good reason to stop by: Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan and John Smith covering The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The performance has reached roughly 62,000 views and is drawing the most daily views among the channel's active videos.

That's a trio with distinct songwriting worlds behind it. Hansard is known for the Frames and the film Once, Hannigan for her solo work following her collaborations with Damien Rice, and Smith for his British folk songwriting. Here, the shared material is Robbie Robertson's song, originally sung by Levon Helm on The Band's self-titled 1969 album.

The interview shelf supplies a different kind of catch-up. An SXSW conversation brings together Maude Apatow, Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman around Poetic License. Another pairs Matty Wishnow and Joey Levy for The Last Critic, a documentary discussion the channel describes as exploring music criticism's last stand. Both are getting modest daily attention compared with the cover.

Across the channel, weekly viewing added about 123,000 views, while subscribers stayed unchanged. Today's viewing is above its usual daily pace, though this was a smaller viewing week than Dan Murrell's and a larger one than HelloGreedo's. For readers returning to The A.V. Club, the most active individual entry is a song rather than a movie interview.

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