Features
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.
Thursday, December 11 2008
The Best Electronic(a) Albums of 2008
Ghosts, bugs, animals, tambourines, other channels, and Hercules: they're all part of the best electronic(a) music of the year.
Thursday, July 17 2008
Life Savers: Girl Talk
Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis) made me do something I never thought I would again: enjoy pop music.
Monday, December 11 2006
Best Electronic Music of 2006
Tim O'Neil sorts through a multitude of techno, microhouse, mix CDs, and mash-ups to offer up the year's best in electronic music.
Reviews
Tuesday, March 15 2011
Girl Talk: 6 March 2011 - Chicago
It’s hard to walk away from a Girl Talk concert and not be a happy camper. Even better, once this party’s over, there are no beer cans to clean up before mom gets home.
Thursday, November 18 2010
Girl Talk: All Day
Girl Talk returns with a surprise (and free) new album of mash-up fervor, but the formula's wearing thin by now.
Thursday, December 4 2008
Girl Talk
Playing for a generation raised on energy drinks, TiVo, and Adderall, Girl Talk’s talent lies in the ability to seamlessly blend disparate pop songs into a non-stop, propulsive groove, achieving a synthesis of irony and innovation.
Monday, June 23 2008
Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
There's no such thing as songwriters anymore, it's all about sound-as-sound, divorced from context and pureed into something wilder than could ever previously have been imagined.
Wednesday, June 21 2006
Girl Talk: Night Ripper
Sampling over 160 bands and artists on the new album, Girl Talk continues to push his way out of the space between DJ mix and mash-up and into territory all his own.
Blogs
Friday, November 19 2010
The Taxonomical Drive and Girl Talk
Citing Nina Power's book, One Dimensional Woman, Jodi Dean posts about the "taxonomical drive": [Power] introduces the idea in the context of contemporary pornography: on…
Thursday, January 8 2009
20 Questions: Girl Talk
Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) sure loves Indiana Jones...
Friday, June 20 2008
The Threat Posed By Girl Talk's New Album
Amazingly enough, Girl Talk's Greg Gillis has been met with virtual silence thus far by the major record companies, despite the relative ubiquity of 2006's…
News
Wednesday, February 9 2011
Girl Talk is a master of musical mixes
PHILADELPHIA — When Gregg Gillis, the biomedical engineer turned pop mash-up mad scientist known as Girl Talk, mixes together a mainstream hit like Rihanna's "Rude…
Tuesday, March 10 2009
Girl Talk is all about the power of pop
Imagine listening to a whole bunch of the songs that you've heard on the radio, or at parties, or at clubs, or in your room,…
Tuesday, May 20 2008
Laptop mixologist Gregg Gillis bares (almost) all
What Gregg Gillis does on stage under the moniker Girl Talk is about as minimalist as you can get, which may be why he's known,…
Monday, February 4 2008
Girl Talk blurs the line between artist and audience
Where do you draw the line between originality and flat-out musical theft? Does it even exist? Mash-up DJ Gregg Gillis wants you to reconsider your…
Tuesday, January 2 2007
Engineer engages in giddy Girl Talk
Biomedical engineer by day, subversive party animal by night, Gregg Gillis has turned his laptop into a lethal weapon. He was one of the most…
