Features
Friday, December 24 2010
The 70 Best Albums of 2010
PopMatters is on its annual publishing break until 3 January 2011, except for some film reviews and blogs. In the meantime, enjoy some of the year's best...
The year's best albums are highlighted by the emergence of a future superstar, two veteran and virtuoso rappers, and a Dream Team of indie bands releasing career peaks.
Friday, December 24 2010
The 60 Best Songs of 2010
Sixty slices of musical greatness highlighted by one of the most delightful expletive-ridden hits in pop music history.
Thursday, December 9 2010
The Best Female Artists of 2010
While the men were showing us their dark and beautiful fantasies, or pulling us into their high brooding violet, the women were absolutely taking over 2010.
Tuesday, December 7 2010
The Best Indie Rock of 2010
"Indie rock" has become a term as amorphous and hard-to-pin-down as some of its associated lingo. But for our purposes here, we'll go with a line of demarcation strangely omitted from the discussion much of the time: the rock portion of the equation.
Reviews
Wednesday, July 14 2010
Beach House: Zebra EP
An album as outstanding as Teen Dream deserves an encore. Thankfully, the brief yet lovely Zebra EP provides one.
Thursday, January 28 2010
Beach House: Teen Dream
Legrand and Scally have made some noticeable changes in both the songwriting and recording of Teen Dream, which incorporates emotionally engaging tunes and textures into the distinctive Beach House sound.
Friday, May 9 2008
Beach House
The show is sold-out, and only the tallest and closest have a decent vantage point. The thing is, though, you don’t really need to see Beach House to “see” them.
Thursday, February 28 2008
Beach House: Devotion
Beach House return with another album of woozy organ, Napoleon Dynamite beats, and enchanting vocals; this time sounding more like a spurned Leslie Gore than an ambivalent Nico.
Tuesday, October 24 2006
Beach House: Beach House
Baltimore duo spins soft vocals, electrified keyboards and mechanical percussion into pearlized fogs of melancholy pop.
Blogs
Thursday, September 30 2010
Vampire Weekend + Beach House: 17 September 2010 - New York
Vampire Weekend rocks Radio City Music Hall for its final night playing NYC.
Monday, September 27 2010
Vampire Weekend + Beach House: 5 September 2010 - Chicago
Vampire Weekend and Beach House stopped through Chicago earlier this month, part of a nationwide tour filled with indie jams and dance grooves.
Friday, April 16 2010
Record Store Day 2010 (website / stream)
This Saturday, April 17, is Record Store Day, which is self-explanatory enough. To lure consumers away from iTunes and into stores to buy CDs and…
Monday, January 25 2010
Beach House - "Zebra" Live on Jimmy Fallon (video)
Baltimore's Beach House unleash their third album and Sub Pop debut this week. The band trekked to upstate New York to lay down the tracks…
Thursday, November 19 2009
Beach House - Teen Dream (new album / MP3)
Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop) Releasing: 26 January From their self-titled debut LP to 2008's tragic Devotion, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scully have kept…
