Articles tagged "not one less"

Events Review

Matisyahu: 03 November 2009 - Chicago, IL

by Dan Hyman

[10.Dec.09] :. Matisyahu’s passion is inescapable and effortlessly draws you into his chilled-out web.

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Column: Worlds in Panels

Forget McCloud (or Maybe Not, Baudrillard)

by Shaun Huston

[10.Dec.09] :. Scott McCloud's text does not make any concessions to doubters. It gives people permission to start from the presumption that comics are 'real' art, as well as 'real' literature.

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Music Review

Mahala Raï Banda: Ghetto Blasters

by Deanne Sole

[10.Dec.09] :. The mating of shamelessness and noise is one of the keys to this Balkan music's charm.

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Music Review

White Out with Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore: Senso

by Craig Carson

[10.Dec.09] :. Senso from White Out and friends is out. Real out, man.

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Music Review

Living Colour: The Chair in the Doorway

by Sean Murphy

[10.Dec.09] :. As ever, Living Colour’s cauldron bubbles over with rock, soul, hip-hop, metal, blues and their own idiosyncratic expression.

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Column: PopPundit

Santa Claus: Super Hero Icon and Religious Figure

by Aaron Sagers

[10.Dec.09] :. Kris Kringle has flesh-and-blood status and is a religious secular figure. He is Superman, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Gandalf the White, James Bond, Dr. Who and James T. Kirk all rolled into one.

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Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

by Terrence Butcher

[10.Dec.09] :. Within the rural French countryside depicted here is a stubborn, quite heartening, uniquely Gallic iconoclasm.

All Is Said and Done: An Interview with Vertical Horizon

by Colin McGuire

[10.Dec.09] :. After accidentally reuniting Rush and befriending Neil Peart, Vertical Horizon's Matt Scannell returns with his band's first album of new material in nearly six years.

Is ‘Glee’ a Little Bit Racist?

by Michael Landweber

[9.Dec.09] :. After this week’s fall finale, Glee is taking a hiatus until April. Seems like plenty of time for a little sensitivity training.

Where Are the Ladies at on the Best of the Decade Charts?

by Sean McCarthy

[9.Dec.09] :. For a decade that prided itself for breaking down musical barriers, there is a noticeable lack of female presence on this decade's most highly-regarded albums.

The Best Singles of 2009: Roman Candle - “Why Modern Radio Is A-OK”

by Jason Gross

[9.Dec.09] :. We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.

Discount retailers and electronic readers worry some in the book world

by Zac Gall [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Dec.09] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In an effort dubbed internally as “Project Impact,” Wal-Mart has redesigned its store layouts in order to make all departments visible from most...

Locomotion, Parkour, and the Illusion of Competence in Video Games

by G. Christopher Williams

[9.Dec.09] :. The illusion of speed is magnified by the perspective offered to the player.

The Best Singles of 2009: Delorean - “Seasun”

by Adrien Begrand

[9.Dec.09] :. We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.

Our Brother the Native + Zen Zen Egui: 26 October 2009 - London

by Robert McCallum

[9.Dec.09] :. Our Brother the Native captures a feeling of revolution and at times even Knapp seems to look on in amazement at Bertram’s wizardry.

Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida by Geoffrey B

by Alan Ashton-Smith

[9.Dec.09] :. The areas from which Camera Lucida is approached are pleasingly varied, ranging from psychoanalysis to Buddhism, and figures such as Freud, Benjamin and Proust are brought into play.

In the J-Zone Zone

by Ben Rubenstein

[9.Dec.09] :. Like college, or Play-Doh, a social media tool is what we make of it, and J-Zone's got the skills to make things interesting.

Elvis Perkins in Dearland: 4.Dec.09 - New York

by Thomas Hauner

[8.Dec.09] :. Elvis Perkins in Dearland: 4 December 2009 - Bowery Ballroom, New York / Words and Pictures by Thomas Hauner

Masters of the Form: Rage Against the Machine 1999 - The Battle of Los Angeles

by Gregg Lipkin

[8.Dec.09] :. Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.

The Smashing Pumpkins - “A Song for a Son”

by Allison Taich

[8.Dec.09] :. In his latest efforts to sustain the good name of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan has been hyping the late 2010 release of Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Teargarden will consist of...

Arctic Monkeys take new path

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Dec.09] :. Sometimes you have to slow up or take a detour to get to your next destination — as Alex Turner learned on the way to the Arctic Monkeys’ third album, “Humbug” (Domino),...

The iPhone’s online identity crisis

by Brian Crecente [Kotaku.com (MCT)]

[8.Dec.09] :. Initially conceived as a multimedia device, the iPhone overcame a number of hurdles to become a popular gaming portable. But one surprising problem still haunts the device’s gaming...

John Lennon: 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980

by Allison Taich

[8.Dec.09] :. Twenty-nine years ago today, the world lost one of its greatest influences when Lennon was shot four times in the back at the entrance of his apartment building in New York City. His death came one...

Top Chef Oddsmakers

by Matt Paproth

[8.Dec.09] :. Now that Jennifer has packed her knives and gone, who will be the next Top Chef?

Slipped Disc: Taking Back Sunday - “Sink Into Me”

by Jennifer Cooke

[8.Dec.09] :. Songs that missed our Top 50 Singles list, but one of our writers love.

400 Lonely Things - “Tonight” (video)

by Oliver Ho

[8.Dec.09] :. Using nothing but background sounds from the original Night of the Living Dead, 400 Lonely Things made one of the most atmospheric and engrossing albums of the year with Tonight of the...

AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa

by Shaun Huston

[8.Dec.09] :. AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa, The Criterion Collection [$399.00]

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell

by Nicholas DeRenzo

[8.Dec.09] :. If Padgett Powell's new book is a novel, in some Dada sense of the word, it looks awfully similar to a list.

The Best Debut Albums of 2009

by Chris Baynes

[8.Dec.09] :. The best debuts are exciting not only for what they promise, but for what they deliver, too. Think of these ten albums not as what could be, but also what already is: the best debut records of 2009.

Brett Anderson: Slow Attack

by Jennifer Cooke

[8.Dec.09] :. Anderson himself says it best: "It wasn't easy to make, and it probably isn't easy to listen to."

Paranormal Passions: An Interview with the Ghost Hunters

by Aaron Sagers

[8.Dec.09] :. The Ghost Hunters Academy investigators talk about the amount of misinformation there is about paranormal investigation and what an awesome season finale would look like.

World’s Greatest Ghosts: No Magic

by Saxon Baird

[8.Dec.09] :. For World's Greatest Ghosts debut LP, it's all in the title of the album.

Old Crow Medicine Show: 19.Nov.09 -  Chicago

by Allison Taich

[7.Dec.09] :. Old Crow Medicine Show: 19 November 2009 - Vic Theatre, Chicago / Words and Pictures by Allison Taich

The Best Singles of 2009: Bishop Allen - “Oklahoma”

by Marisa LaScala

[7.Dec.09] :. We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.

The Hidden Cameras + Gentleman Reg: 3.Dec.09 - Chicago

by Kirstie Shanley

[7.Dec.09] :. The Hidden Cameras + Gentleman Reg: 3 December 2009 – The Empty Bottle, Chicago / Words and Pictures by Kirstie Shanley

Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Diane Birch

by PC Muñoz

[7.Dec.09] :. Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.

Not-So-Tragic-Mulatto’s Low Point: Crossing the Color Line in ‘The Jeffersons’

by Diepiriye Kuku

[7.Dec.09] :. This episode was played really well -- and played pretty close to the race line. Neither have iconic images as old as the archetypical bi-racial character in Imitation of Life, the 1959 classic with the tragic mulatto, nor has the sheer election of Barack Obama pressed Americans to tackle the race question head on. In the thick of those two eras stands a time when television seemed to have more gall around "difference".

The message? Exhibit A could be textual infidelity

by John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[7.Dec.09] :. PHILADELPHIA — The saga of Tiger Woods — and not only his — is a classic, pop-cultural case of the sexual tables turned. It’s a story becoming increasingly familiar. His...

The Best Singles of 2009: Coldplay - “Strawberry Swing”

by Ross Langager

[7.Dec.09] :. We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.

Philip K. Dick’s Defense of Video Games

by L.B. Jeffries

[7.Dec.09] :. Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.

The Best Singles of 2009

by PopMatters Staff

[7.Dec.09] :. PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.

Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live

by Anthony Lombardi

[7.Dec.09] :. The idiosyncrasy with which the long-revered songwriter has built his legacy on transpires just as fascinatingly through a live venue as it does on his studio records.

Cold Cave: Love Comes Close

by Matthew Collins

[7.Dec.09] :. The thing about Cold Cave is, not only are they indie rock stars, but they’ve got pilots’ licenses. Imagine that!

Rupa & the April Fishes: Este Mundo

by Richard Elliott

[7.Dec.09] :. While much supposedly "boundary-crossing" music can end up bogged down in dubious fusion, the music of Rupa & the April Fishes works because it's rooted in broadly sympathetic musical styles.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Los Suenos De Un Hidago

by Daniel Ross

[7.Dec.09] :. The live album proves an expressive challenge for the Mars Volta guitarist.

The Pines: Tremolo

by Steve Leftridge

[7.Dec.09] :. With the Pines, the sun never shines, and you shiver when the cold win blows.

A Welcome Return Home: The Orenda Fink Interview

by Zach Hinkle

[7.Dec.09] :. Orenda Fink, one half of the acclaimed band Azure Ray, discusses her newest solo release, Ask the Night, a stripped-down piece that finds her reconnecting with her childhood in Alabama.

Jonsi (of Sigur Ros) - Teaser Website

by Sachyn Mital

[4.Dec.09] :. Just Tuesday, I received a brief email from the Sigur-Ros.co.uk website with a simple block of text, indicating the website, www.jonsi.com. Over the last couple of days, and for the next two...

Green Day - All About ‘Dookie’: “Longview”

by AJ Ramirez

[4.Dec.09] :. In 1994, alternative rock ruled rock music.  At the time, some in the music press occasionally remarked that punk rock had finally “won” due to the mainstream breakthrough of...

Bionic Six: Scientifically Impossible

by Monte Williams

[4.Dec.09] :. If ‘80s cartoons like ThunderCats, Transformers, G.I. Joe and He-Man can be said to have one thing in common, it’s that none of them withstand objective scrutiny. If you can...

Joss Stone - “Baby Baby Baby” (video)

by Jennifer Cooke

[4.Dec.09] :. UK soul songstress Joss Stone has a new video making the rounds that’s got “viral” written all over it. The rumor is that her brother directed the clip, and her record company, EMI,...

The Mystery of Assassin’s Creed

by Nick Dinicola

[4.Dec.09] :. Assassin’s Creed is largely a mystery game, but we'll only find answers to its complex conspiracy if we divert from the path that the game sets for us.

Poe for sale

by Lara Killian

[4.Dec.09] :. What would you pay for an original work of Edgar Allan Poe? How about a first edition of his very first book? Would you care if his name wasn’t even on it? Friday December 4th, CBC reports, a...

Blackadder Remastered: The Ultimate Edition

by Christel Loar

[4.Dec.09] :. "This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit." Indeed, this is exemplary of the way to make a near-perfect DVD set of the prime example of a near-perfect comedy.

Reconsidering the Revival of Cassette Tape Culture

by Calum Marsh

[4.Dec.09] :. At best, the cassette revival is merely a vacuous fad of no genuine value; but at worst, it's a confused, regressive cultural misstep more dangerous than most would care to admit.

Britney Spears: The Singles Collection

by Evan Sawdey

[4.Dec.09] :. "'Sharing the same heart'? That's like some... Britney Spears sh*t, man!" -- Jay (Romany Malco) The 40 Year Old Virgin.

The Bee Gees: The Ultimate Bee Gees

by Bill Holmes

[4.Dec.09] :. Yet another greatest hits collection from the Brothers Gibb. Worth grabbing the Limited Edition just for the videos, but the two audio discs are redundant.

moe.: 14 November 2009 - Austin, TX

by Greg M. Schwartz

[4.Dec.09] :. The band’s down-to-earth demeanor is a significant part of what makes them so endearing to their fans. There are no pretensions of any kind…just great music.