Thursday, February 9 2012
“Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity
Rappers have always wrestled with the question of how to succeed in a society where the odds are stacked against them. The biggest difference now is that their middle class listeners have the same worries.
Wednesday, February 16 2011
Santana and Various Artists: Guitar Heaven
Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time comes off as a celebrity version of American Idol.
Friday, January 21 2011
The Year in Music: May 2010
May 2010, the subject of our latest look at the year’s biggest events in music, was a hodgepodge of notable cover versions, new releases, TV events, and more.
Thursday, November 18 2010
Hip-Hop’s Laboratory of Language
What do William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, Ice Cube, and Ghostface Killah have in common? Finally, they all appear in anthologies.
Thursday, March 18 2010
PHOTOS: SXSW Music Day 1: Besnard Lakes, White Denim, Nas and Damian Marley, Motorhead…
Photos of the Besnard Lakes, White Denim, Nas and Damian Marley, Motorhead, and Adam Tensta from Day 1 of SXSW.
Monday, July 20 2009
It Ain’t Hard to Tell: The Legacy of ‘Illmatic’
The "half-man, half-amazin'", Nas' persona is part myth and part "everyday kid" from the Queensbridge projects.
Thursday, January 15 2009
Kevin Rudolf: In the City
Kevin Rudolf thinks he's a bigger star than he actually is, and how dare you think otherwise.
Friday, December 19 2008
The Best Albums of 2008
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2008, highlighted by the return of British trip-hop legends and some infectious American indie rock by way of the Cascade Mountains.
Friday, December 12 2008
The Politics Inside Black Pop
Will black pop artists still see themselves as outsiders now that a black person is President? Will they use their cultural platform to criticize him if need be, just as they did to help elect him?
