|
|
Features - November 2006
Browse archives by month...
May.08 | Apr.08 | Mar.08 | Feb.08 | Jan.08 | Dec.07 | Nov.07 | Oct.07 | Sep.07 | Aug.07 | Jul.07 | Jun.07 | May.07 | Apr.07 | Mar.07 | Feb.07 | Jan.07 | Dec.06 | Nov.06 |
Oct.06
Browse archives by year...
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
|
|
Music
Coming Soon: Tori Amos, A Collection of Collections
By Megan Milks
[30.Nov.06] :.
Tori Amos is a fascinating person and she will always be, among other things, the classically trained pianist who rebelled against her preacher father; sought inspiration from witch doctors and their drugs; made zany, unmediated statements in interviews; and proved that pianos are as liberating as guitars.
|
|
|
Music
Metheny / Mehldau—On the Record
By Will Layman
[30.Nov.06] :.
With the release of their first collaboration, jazz musicians Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau talk to PopMatters.
|
|
|
Music
The Art of Everyday Living
By Patrick Schabe
[29.Nov.06] :.
This American Life is the best thing on radio. In fact, This American Life might be the best reason to even own a radio.
|
|
|
Books
The Fuss About Pynchon
By John Carvill
[21.Nov.06] :.
Cast aside synthetic substitutes, junk food for the soul, and take a bite of the pungent, organic mushroom offered up by the man from Oyster Bay, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.
|
|
|
Music
How Solomon Burke Got to Nashville
By Christian John Wikane
[20.Nov.06] :.
Few artists can attest to recording an album in eight days but Solomon Burke is unlike other artists. He's not just the "King of Rock and Soul", he's also a singer who's still learning how to perfect his craft, with a passion that fuels boundless creativity.
|
|
|
Music
Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa
By Shain Shapiro
[16.Nov.06] :.
Three globally successful African hip-hop artists are spreading the word about change on a continent that is often overlooked.
|
|
|
Books
Louise Brooks at 100: Interview with Peter Cowie
By John Davidson
[15.Nov.06] :.
"One learned to take with a pinch of salt some of her assertions about people from the silent period. Sometimes it wasn't just her memory failing, it was a liberal attempt to build history in her own image." PopMatters talks to Peter Cowie, author of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever.
|
|
|
Music
Hot IQs: “Let’s Inflate”
By Patrick Schabe
[14.Nov.06] :.
Hot IQs have claimed a spot atop Denver's indie pile, helping add to the city's resurgent local music scene. And while they definitely have their sights set on the national stage, this band of music geeks-cum-musicians is more than happy to stump for their Mile High hometown.
|
|
|
Sports
Totem Role
By David Swerdlick
[14.Nov.06] :.
When will American sports teams stop using Indians as mascots?
|
|
|
Music
A Memory of Music
By Christopher Tignor
[13.Nov.06] :.
When the technology that delivers pop music changes, our notions of what music is changes as well. Songs have already devolved into ring tones. How much further can they fall?
|
|
|
PopMatters @ CMJ 2006
Writers: Jennifer Kelly, Dan Nishimoto, and Steve Stirling; Edited by Andrew Phillips and Megan Milks
[7.Nov.06] :.
|
|
|
Music
New Adventures in Antiquity
By Zeth Lundy
[3.Nov.06] :.
A new box set commemorating a series of tribute concerts for Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music puts inherited eccentricities center-stage that probe the rift between artifice and authenticity.
|
|
|
Culture
Kings Dominion
By Paul Caine
[2.Nov.06] :.
Though they aspire to be as safe as suburbia, amusement parks provide pleasure beyond class consciousness.
|
|
|
Jessica Lange: The Anti-Streep
By Matt Mazur
[1.Nov.06] :.
Can childhood epiphanies really translate into critical pursuits of acting nuance? For Matt Mazur they most certainly can, as attested by his lifelong devotion to the immersive acting of cinematic chimera Jessica Lange.
|
Browse archives by month...
May.08 | Apr.08 | Mar.08 | Feb.08 | Jan.08 | Dec.07 | Nov.07 | Oct.07 | Sep.07 | Aug.07 | Jul.07 | Jun.07 | May.07 | Apr.07 | Mar.07 | Feb.07 | Jan.07 | Dec.06 | Nov.06 |
Oct.06
Browse archives by year...
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
|
|
