Monday, November 17 2008
Birthday: The White Album Turns 40
In the first day of PopMatters' week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' self-titled double album, Bill Gibron and Zeth Lundy discuss the record's importance and impact, and why it continues to resonate within popular culture some four decades later.
Friday, January 25 2008
The Best Music DVDs of 2007
The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.
Wednesday, January 2 2008
Paul McCartney – We Believe In Yesterday
Taken together, Help! and The McCartney Years, show the breadth of an artist's career, warts and all. Few have lived a life as well-documented or as successful as Paul McCartney.
Wednesday, December 5 2007
Jars of Clay: Christmas Songs
Christmas Songs is refuge from the bombast of the season, a perfectly subtle slice of Heaven.
Tuesday, December 4 2007
McCartney `trying to create an antidote’ for difficult times
"I'm from the world of 45's and LP's, then it became cassettes and 8-tracks, then CDs, and now it's downloading. It doesn't make much difference to me."
Friday, November 2 2007
Help!
The Beatles' second (and second-best) movie, an absurdist romp with Bond-esque aspirations, gets an overdue clean-up on this new double-disc edition.
Monday, June 25 2007
Reflections of a Renaissance Man: An Interview with Paul McCartney
From Astaire to T-Pain, from Little Richard to de Kooning, McCartney talks to PopMatters and covers it all, including his uncertainty about what kind of send-off he'd like.
Tuesday, June 19 2007
Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking
Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.
