Features
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.
Reviews
Friday, May 3 2013
Sparks: 25 April 2013 - New York
Sparks' latest tour, titled Two Hands, One Mouth, is a collection of songs from the band's discography reduced to nothing but keyboard and vocals. It speaks volumes that neither the focus of the tour itself, nor the accompanying live album, come across as gimmicky
Tuesday, May 1 2012
The Futureheads: Rant
The Futureheads release an entire album of original songs and cover songs re-worked as a cappella arrangements... and it works.
Friday, October 23 2009
Sparks: The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman
Who else but Sparks could create a half-English, half-Swedish musical about Ingmar Bergman's fictional, fantastical journey to Hollywood... and still make it good?
Wednesday, March 29 2006
Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
What's the difference between carnivalesque and arrested development?
