Friday, April 12 2013
The 30 Most Bizarrely Funny Movie Ratings
If it weren’t for the MPAA, we’d be unwittingly and constantly assaulted by bawdy puppets, bare bottoms, smoking caterpillars, quirky situations, irreverent humor and more (gasp!) much more, in our movie-going experiences.
Monday, December 17 2012
Cuts Without Pastes: Electronic Music Artists that Fell Through the Cracks
Not everyone can be Al Walser. Despite their abilities and efforts, some producers didn't click with their audiences, ending up in some kind of digital purgatory. Alan Ranta looks at a few artists that, for various reasons, slipped through the cracks.
Wednesday, November 21 2012
Ten Great Musical Gifts for the Holidays
This year saw the release of many truly stellar box sets and re-issues from the Holy Grail of Western pop music (the earliest Louis Armstrong recordings and the Beatles remasters on vinyl) to indie heroes like Sugar and folk pioneer Woody Guthrie. Here's ten of our faves.
Monday, November 19 2012
Some of the Most Unbelievable Films of Arnold Schwarzenneger, In Order of Implausibility
These films open some serious theological and existential cans of worms regarding mortality, morality, reincarnation, middle-age crises, ethics, and other such stuff.
Friday, November 2 2012
Ten Horrific Movie Scenes for Post-Halloween
Since truth is invariably stranger -- and scarier -- than fiction, some of cinema's most unnerving scenes come from movies not found in the Horror section.
Thursday, October 4 2012
The Top 10 Favorite Tori Amos Style Moments
Tori Amos: "Before we did the arenas in 1998, we were doing small clubs and Husband said to me, 'Why don’t you just wear jeans and a tee shirt? Why not? You’re in clubs.'" Big mistake
Wednesday, October 3 2012
The Top 10 Tori Amos YouTube Moments
Tori Amos has had a career full of buzz-worthy moments. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, PopMatters brings you 10 of the most memorable ones out there. These clips prove three things: #1 Tori is hilarious, #2 You should never piss her off, and #3 she knows how to perfectly capture a zeitgeist moment and savor it.
Thursday, August 23 2012
Those People’s Lists: On Pitchfork’s Favorite Albums, 1996-2011
On the occasion of Pitchfork's first ever crowdsourced Best Of list, we reappraise the webzine's favorite albums of 1996-2011.
Monday, August 20 2012
To the End: 12 Essential Blur Songs for 2012
If you needed any confirmation that Blur took the gold in the 1990s Britpop battle royale, the band's headlining performance capping the London Olympics should close the case.
Wednesday, June 13 2012
When “Good” TV Goes Bad: Five (Out of Many) Flaws of ‘The Killing’
Deep into Season 2, the problems with AMC's The Killing are rich and varied in their depth and breadth... here are five.
Wednesday, October 26 2011
Tough Guys Recite: The 5 Best Poetry Spittin’ TV Characters
Every generic hero on TV can finish a poetic quotation or identify a poignant quatrain (down to the line numbers). But few can spit Tennyson or Yeats with such venom as these guys.
Wednesday, October 5 2011
Beyond Jodie Dallas: TV’s 10 Most Important LGBT Characters
Several "best" or "favorite" LGBT TV character lists have popped up in recent years, but they don't always include the most important LGBT characters. So, we pay tribute to the ten(ish) most significant LGBT characters in US television history.
Wednesday, September 28 2011
PopMatters Picks: Best 2011 Summer Concert Experiences
PopMatters writers offer up a smattering of their favorite concert moments from the summer of 2011.
Thursday, September 22 2011
R.E.M.: The Greatest American Band. Ever.
Where R.E.M -- like any band -- really distances themselves and makes their true case for greatness is in the lesser-known and semi-obscure songs.
Thursday, August 18 2011
Here Comes Fall TV: 2011 Edition
This year's new shows include fewer straight up procedurals about cops, doctors, and lawyers than usual. And only a few comedies involving young people cohabitating in urban environments. We've got the video previews here along with what to watch and what to miss.
Wednesday, August 10 2011
Gold Soundz: The 20 Essential Pavement Songs
What better way is there to mark Stephen Malkmus' past milestones and present achievements than to revisit his most memorable lines from some of the best Pavement songs?
Tuesday, August 2 2011
10 Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Don’t)
Some of these are hopefully no-brainers, others may be head-scratchers. All of them are albums that deserve a fresh appraisal.
Thursday, June 2 2011
Kanye West = Batman? Five Perfect Broadway Superhero Musicals We’d Like to See
If only the creators of the Spiderman musical had chosen Elvis Costello instead of U2 to create Spidey's soundtrack... While we're at it, here are some ideas for Broadway's next pack of superhero shows.
Monday, May 23 2011
The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time
Put as simply -- and starkly -- as possible, many beautiful babies were thrown out with the bath water by hidebound critics who were content to sniffingly dismiss the more ambitious (pretentious!) works that certain bands were putting out as a matter of course in the early-to-mid-‘70s.
