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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007

The Best Country Music of 2007

[14.Dec.07] :. Whatever your taste in music, be it Country or Western, 2007 has been something of a disappointment when compared with recent years. You have to look a little harder to find the diamonds in the Van Lear coal-mine that was the year that was, but they're there.

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007

DVDs

Kids' DVDs: June 2007

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

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Music

Architecture and Morality: The Wedding Present Revisited

[31.May.07] :. Pop scholars frequently undervalue The Wedding Present. If the Smiths were the undeniable figurehead for the UK's thriving independent pop scene of the 1980s, then Gedge's little-band-that-could certainly inherited that mantle.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006

Best Country of 2006

[21.Dec.06] :. Goodbye to Academia, Pedantry, and even Austin: Roger Holland's favorite country albums of 2006 come from a very broad church indeed.

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006

DVDs

Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?

[6.Dec.06] :. As our inner Helen Lovejoy knows full well, Christmas Is For Thee Children. So what on earth can we pick up for our kids from Wal-Mart that'll fit into an SUV laden with goodies from the Pottery Barn and beyond? Well, DVDs. Obv. And why not start with the Christmas Classics?

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Music The L-Words: An Interview with the Cardigans

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Music

Celtic Soul Rebel: Talking to the Dentist About Poetry

[23.Oct.06] :. Shane MacGowan recorded five albums with the Pogues. As the reformed band sets out on its most ambitious tour since 1991, and Rhino Records releases expanded and remastered versions of all five, we take the opportunity to review the rise and fall of the Pogues.

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DVDs Kids DVDS - October 2006

The Cut-Out Bin Dexy's Midnight Runners, Don't Stand Me Down (1985)

Reviews

TV NCIS

TV NUMB3RS

TV House

TV Chuck

Music Emerson Lake and Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibition

Music Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight

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Music

The New Pornographers: Challengers

[21.Aug.07] :. Roger Holland thinks Challengers is what the New Pornographers always wanted to sound like and that it just took them four albums to get there.

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TV Traveler

Music Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Bellydance Cafe

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TV

Mad Men

[26.Jul.07] :. Mad Men is stylish and clever, showing men who are simultaneously at the pinnacle of their corporate and personal worlds, and at risk of losing everything.

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TV The Singing Bee / Don't Forget the Lyrics

Music Amy LaVere: Anchors & Anvils

TV Robin Hood

Music Joan Osborne: Breakfast In Bed

TV Veronica Mars

Music Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

TV The Amazing Race: All-Stars

Music Elizabeth Cook: Balls

TV Drive

Music Wreckless Eric: Big Smash

Music Graham Parker: Dont Tell Columbus

Music The Moaners: Blackwing Yalobusha

TV The Amazing Race: All-Stars

Music Lucinda Williams: West

TV The Dresden Files

TV The Apprentice: Los Angeles

Music Dierks Bentley: Long Trip Alone

Music Taylor Swift: Taylor Swift

Music George Strait: It Just Comes Natural

Music Alan Jackson: Like Red on a Rose

DVDs Click (2006)

Music Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gold

Music Mindy Smith: Long Island Shores

TV The Bachelor: Rome

Music Anne McCue: Koala Motel

TV Greys Anatomy

TV The Amazing Race

Music Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Gold

Music Slumber Party: MUSIK

Music Two Ton Boa: Parasiticide

TV Standoff

TV Million Dollar Listing

Music Trace Adkins: Dangerous Man

DVDs Led Zeppelin: The Origin of the Species [DVD]

Music Danielle Peck: Danielle Peck

Music Various Artists: Paupers, Peasants, Princes and Kings

Music The Divine Comedy: Victory for the Comic Muse

Music Tender Trap: 6 Billion People

Music Julie Roberts: Men and Mascara

DVDs NCIS: review_item_subtitle

Music Cracker: Greenland

Music Black Sabbath: Greatest Hits 1970-1978

Music The Wedding Present: Search For Paradise

Music The Charlatans UK: Simpatico

TV Teachers

TV Cheerleader Nation

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Music

Television Personalities: My Dark Places

[16.Mar.06] :. For fans of a certain kind of music, there is unlikely to be a more significant release in 2006.

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Music Tres Chicas: Bloom, Red and the Ordinary Girl

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Music

Pansy Division: The Essential Pansy Division

[10.Mar.06] :. Pansy Division were the first openly homosexual rock band I can remember, since Tom Robinson first told the world he was glad to be gay.

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TV The Amazing Race - Season Nine

DVDs Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition) (1961)

DVDs Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson Uncensored!

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Music

Luke Doucet: Broken (And Other Rogue States)

[10.Feb.06] :. It's still a real shame that absurdly talented writers and performers like Luke Doucet are condemned to fly well below the popular radar.

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