Cole Stryker

About Cole Stryker

Cole Stryker is an American freelance writer who covers music and multimedia for PopMatters. After getting his bachelor's in marketing, he shipped off to York, England, where he writes for a travel company and resides with his archeologist wife.

Features

Events

Don't Forget Your Wellies: Glastonbury 2008

[18.Jul.08] :. With only a flimsy $15 tent and wellington boots for protection, PopMatters’ Cole Stryker avoided Amy Winehouse’s punches, the mud, and John Mayer, at the annual global gathering that is the Glastonbury Festival.

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Events

The Gaudí, the Bands, and the (Not So) Muddy

[23.Jun.08] :. You know there's a music festival in the city when fedoras and scarves outnumber baseball caps and gold chains.

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Multimedia

Headshots 4 Jesus

[8.Feb.08] :. In its quest to be seen as a legitimate way of life among a legion of detractors, the Christian Church has turned to alternative methods of getting its point across.

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Reviews

PopMatters Pick

Music

Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

[2.Jun.08] :. The boys' voices rarely go where you'd expect, but upon even one play-through, you can't imagine them going anywhere else.

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Multimedia

Mario Kart Wii

[14.May.08] :. Mario Kart Wii has reached critical mass levels of madcappery.

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Music

Foxglove Hunt: Stop Heartbeat

[12.May.08] :. Ultimately a likeable, if unadventurous, record that manages to recapture what was so great about past pop songs: a keen sense of melody and an ironic sense of humor.

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Multimedia

Worms: A Space Oddity

[7.May.08] :. Worms: A Space Oddity's most crushing failure is the absence of the ninja rope.

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Music

Clinic: Do It!

[10.Apr.08] :. I'm beginning to lose hope in the idea that Clinic have yet to unleash their opus.

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Music   Lach: The Calm Before

Music   The Dodos: Visiter

Multimedia   Bomberman Land

Multimedia   Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Music   Various Artists: Achtung! German Grooves

Music   Beach House: Devotion

PopMatters Pick

Music

Future of the Left: Curses

[14.Feb.08] :. Future of the Left inject a little adrenaline into our ears, a jarring wake up call from the sleepy sounds of today's indie rock landscape.

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Multimedia   Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles

Multimedia   Rayman Raving Rabbids 2

Multimedia   Mario Strikers Charged

Multimedia   MySims

Multimedia   Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

 
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