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Tuesday, November 1 2011

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or Shame?

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently announced its 15 nominees for its 2012 induction class. Once again, that means the blogosphere is abuzz with complaints about the Hall's irrelevancy. Are they legitimate?


Wednesday, September 14 2011

White Lies: iTunes Festival London 2011

Yes, this question's got a hold on me: Why does a band that relies on studio clean-up bother releasing live content that is so dull and subpar?


Thursday, September 1 2011

20 Unsung Music Videos from the 1980s

PopMatters begins a new series examining at the widespread emergence of music video in the 1980s. From major artists like the Clash, David Bowie, and U2 to less famous brethren such as Haysi Fantayzee and Grandmaster Caz, these are the unsung videos from that decade that might have missed your attention the first time around.


Friday, April 22 2011

The Raveonettes: Raven in the Grave

If the Raveonettes of yore were Tarantino flick knives, bubble gum, and Ray Bans, they're now the decaying beauty and warped nightmares of David Lynch.


Friday, June 4 2010

Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1989 - Disintegration

By 1989, Robert Smith had grown a bit weary of his new found pop stardom and was determined to swim out of the mainstream back into what he thought were the deeper waters of the band's earlier work.


Tuesday, May 18 2010

Walked in Line: The Musical Disciples of Joy Division

If any band is heir to the musical path Joy Division laid out, it would be the Cure, quite possibly the second-most influential band of the post-punk era.


Tuesday, May 11 2010

Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1987 - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

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.


Friday, April 23 2010

Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1985 - The Head on the Door

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.


Monday, March 15 2010

Verse-Chorus-Verse: “Lovesong” - The Cure

Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.


The Cure - “A Pink Dream” (Sound Affects) [23.Jan.09]
The Cure: 4:13 Dream (Reviews) [28.Oct.08]
The Cure [2007 Rewind] (Reviews) [2.Jan.08]
The Cure (Reviews) [5.Sep.07]
Digitalism: Idealism (Reviews) [24.Aug.07]
The Cure: Festival 2005 [DVD] (Reviews) [16.Jan.07]
Best Reissues of 2006 (Features) [23.Dec.06]
The Cure: self-titled (Reviews) [23.Jul.04]
The Cure (Reviews) [11.May.04]
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  3. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 1: From 13Ghosts to Friendly Fires (Features)
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  5. Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
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  7. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
  8. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
  9. Lana Del Rey: Born to Die (Reviews)
  10. The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time (Sound Affects)
  11. Get Off of My Cloud!: 'Collecting' Music in the Digital Age (Features)
  12. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Reviews)
  13. Google and the Production of Curiosity (Marginal Utility)
  14. Carole E. Barrowman’s Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth (Features)
  15. Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
  16. Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
  17. The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
  18. “Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity (Features)
  19. Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks (Reviews)
  20. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
  21. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
  22. A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football (Columns)
  23. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
  24. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
  25. Chairlift: Something (Reviews)
  26. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Heart Attack" (Cosmic Kids Remix) (PopMatters Premiere) (Mixed Media)
  27. The Barbaric (and Poetic) Yawp of Shelby Lynne (Notes from the Road)
  28. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (Reviews)
  29. After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Features)
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