Features
Thursday, July 7 2011
Was It All in Her Head?: An Interview with Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips set up a subscription service for her fans to get entire EPs of new music before she had anything even written. Not only did she survive, but she's produced some of most daring music of her career, and tells PopMatters all about it ...
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Wednesday, December 10 2008
The Best Singer-Songwriter Albums of 2008
Former (or current) members of the Dream Syndicate, Fleetwood Mac, and the Wallflowers are just a few of the best singer-songwriters stepping out on their own this year.
Tuesday, December 9 2008
In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over
The old music-industry adage is that if a woman doesn't have a hit by the time she's 22 years old, she should probably look for another career. That's obviously a load of blarney.
Reviews
Thursday, September 8 2011
Sam Phillips: Solid State - Songs from the Long Play
Phillips manages to create a conflicting compilation album admired for the beauty of the music -- but with a disappointing physical packaging.
Tuesday, April 5 2011
Sam Phillips: Cameras in the Sky / Long Play
Sam Phillips' year-long project of intricate multimedia comes to an end on a high note with the full-length release of Cameras in the Sky.
Wednesday, June 4 2008
Sam Phillips: Don't Do Anything
Phillips relishes the inscrutability the material provides. This is song noir, whose low-key, chiaroscuro-style shadings of musical effects heighten the psychological reality.
Monday, July 30 2001
Sam Phillips: Fan Dance
After a five-year hiatus, Sam Phillips returns to form with the very intimate 'Fan Dance', a quality collection of adult pop that allows her sexy voice to deliver cryptically introspective musings in a finely focused, mostly acoustic scheme..
Blogs
Tuesday, October 25 2011
Sam Phillips - "Baby I Can't Please You" (video)
Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos.
Tuesday, October 25 2011
Sam Phillips Plays a Tune on 'The Gilmore Girls'
Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos.
Tuesday, October 25 2011
Sam Phillips - "Don't Do Anything" (video)
Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos.
Tuesday, October 25 2011
Sam Phillips - "Magic For Everybody" (video)
Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos.
Tuesday, October 25 2011
Sam Phillips - "I Need Love" (1994) (video)
Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos.
