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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.


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.


Sunday, December 17 2006

Kill the House Lights: An Interview With Britt Daniel

Spoon's frontman explains his involvement with the new film Stranger Than Fiction and his love for an unlikely soundtrack.


Reviews

Friday, June 25 2010

Primavera Sound Festival: 27-29 May 2010: Barcelona, Spain

Primavera never stops growing. There are now more stages than ever before, a whole week of live music before the festival even begins, ad-hoc stages set-up in parks all over the city, as well as the obligatory closing party.


Friday, April 16 2010

Spoon + Deerhunter: 29 March 2010 - Toronto

Somehow, a show by one of my favorite bands, playing a bunch of my favorite songs, was more enervating than engaging.


Monday, January 18 2010

Spoon: Transference

When you break it down, Transference is really just another Spoon album... and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.


Friday, May 22 2009

Spoon + Black Nasty: 22 April 2009 - Houston

While several new songs were welcomed with polite applause, tunes from Spoon’s back catalogue elicited a more raucous response.


Monday, November 19 2007

Spoon

I’d never thought of Spoon as bourgie, but, suddenly, it seems obvious. After all, they play tight, melodic rock that’s just a little bit uppercrust. These guys are, dare I say it, adults...


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Tuesday, August 10 2010

Arcade Fire + Spoon: 6 Aug 2010 - Columbia, MD

More than any other band of their generation, the Arcade Fire prove that "indie rock" and "stadium rock" are not mutually exclusive categories.


Wednesday, March 24 2010

Spoon + Deerhunter + The Strange Boys: 22.Mar.10 - Washington D.C.

How do you improve on perfection? In the case of Spoon, you pair one of indie rock's most reliable live acts with two up-and-coming bands that can more than hold their own.


Monday, November 30 2009

Spoon - Transference (new album / video / MP3)

Spoon Transference (Merge) Releasing: 19 January Spoon follows last year's beloved Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga with Transference. Check out a video teaser and two…


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