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 Best Electronic Music of 2010
As per usual, electronic music in 2010 was rhizomatic, but it was curiously unnamed. We're getting no help from the artists themselves, who seem gleefully unconcerned with staying in one spot very long.
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.
Reviews
Thursday, March 1 2012
King Midas Sound: Without You
Here is a remixed, "revoiced" version of the trio's moody, dubby Waiting For You. With Scritti Politti!
Friday, February 17 2012
Blu: NoYork!
We're 98% positive you've never heard a hip-hop LP quite like NoYork! before.
Thursday, January 13 2011
Flying Lotus: Pattern+Grid World
Flying Lotus follows up on the dense mind-trip of Cosmogramma with a prettier, more approachable batch of tracks.
Friday, October 29 2010
Flying Lotus: Pattern+Grid World
Flying Lotus proves on Pattern+Grid World that the only thing predictable about him is his consistent capacity to awe.
Tuesday, May 4 2010
Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
Insert string of contextually positive expletives here. This is the album that finally reveals Flying Lotus's genealogy of jazz as an essential piece of his framework.
Blogs
Friday, January 28 2011
Flying Lotus Interviewed By Thom Yorke/Performance on BBC Radio1
Last Wednesday night, Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) and his Brain Feeder label mates took over DJ Benji B’s BBC Radio 1 show. During the…
Wednesday, October 27 2010
Beeple's Hilarious and Dark New Flying Lotus Video
Mike Winkelmann, known to the outside world as Beeple, has animated a new video for "Kill Your Co-Workers", the single from Flying Lotus' latest EP,…
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (new album / stream)
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (Warp) Releasing: 4 May Classifying Flying Lotus into any particular genre or sound is almost impossible. Hailing from Winnetka, California the DJ/producer…
News
Monday, May 10 2010
Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, could get out from the underground with 'Cosmogramma'
LOS ANGELES — In October 2008, while Steven Ellison's mother lay dying in a hospital bed, he was at her side recording her. The young…
