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Sarah Zupko is a former Executive Producer at Tribune Media Services, the media syndication arm of the Tribune Company, and a 10-year veteran of Tribune Company. Aside from writing novels and plays, she devotes most of her time and energy to running PopMatters.com and formerly PopCultures.com, as well as research in the fields of Slavic and German history, and general European cultural and intellectual history. Zupko studied musicology, film, and drama at the University of Chicago and media theory at the University of Texas, where she received her M.A. in 1995.


Features

Monday, December 16 2002

Best Music of 2002: Sarah Zupko


Monday, December 17 2001

Best of 2001: Sarah Zupko


Monday, December 18 2000

Best of 2000: Sarah Zupko


Monday, December 20 1999

Best of 1999: Sarah Zupko


Reviews

Monday, September 24 2007

The Dragons: BFI

A rare lost gem thankfully resurrected, perfect for the headphones and the stereo stack.


Thursday, September 6 2007

Alamo Race Track: Black Cat John Brown


Tuesday, September 4 2007

Patrick Cleandenim: Baby Comes Home

Patrick Cleandenim loves Scott Walker. That much is clear from the rich, poppy orchestrations of his '60s gazing tunes.


Friday, August 31 2007

Heidi Mortenson: Dont Lonely Me

Sultry, silly, soulful, playful, gender-bending, pop experimentalist... Heidi Mortenson is all this and more.


Thursday, August 30 2007

The Loves: Technicolour

This new pop collective from Cardiff, Wales has a deep, abiding love for the most sugary, candy-coated concoctions from the '60s.


Coldplay / JJ72 [29.Nov.01]
Sam Prekop [1.Jan.95]
Rialto [1.Jan.95]
Vitro, Distort [1.Jan.95]
Whistler [1.Jan.95]
Muse, Showbiz [1.Jan.95]
Blur: 13 [1.Jan.95]
Owsley [1.Jan.95]

Blogs

Wednesday, July 20 2011

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band - "I'll Fly Away" (video)

Last night, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band, joined forces for a foot-stomping, soul movin' version of the gospel classic "I'll Fly Away" on the stages of the Late Show with David Letterman.


Wednesday, June 29 2011

FitzGerald's Foot Stomping, Feel Good 31st Annual American Music Festival: July 1-3

Every year FitzGerald's puts on one of the finest festivals of American roots music in the country and the latest kicks off this Friday just outside Chicago.


Thursday, June 9 2011

Gabe Dixon - "My Favorite" Video (PopMatters Premiere)

Piano pop maestro Gabe Dixon kicks off his solo career with a new album, One Spark, coming this August and a fresh and infectious new single, "My Favorite". Look out Ben Folds.


Tuesday, May 17 2011

Socalled - "Sleepover" (MP3 / video)

"Sleepover" is a wacky, hip-hop mash-up with Klezmer accordions and lyrics that seem to poke fun at rap's obsession with "booty". Sleepover releases today in digital form.


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