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Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon
By PopMatters Staff
The three-day 2011 edition of Slipped Discs -- where we feature great albums that missed our Best Albums of 2011 -- concludes with the smart hip-hop of the Roots, indie greatness from Real Estate and Youth Lagoon, blasts out of the UK from WU LYF and We Were Promised Jetpacks, and many more. [3.Feb.12]
The Amazingness of Everything: A Conversation with Dan Mangan
At the end of the day, "insincerity is so visible, says the much-loved Canadian troubadour. [3.Feb.12]
Bring Out Your Dumb!: The Ficarra Exclusive Concludes
It's been our longest interview for an exclusive yet, Editor John Ficarra, the mind behind MAD. And it ends in the most unexpected place; compassion. [3.Feb.12]
After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
After a British government official declared them "Wreckers of Civilization", Throbbing Gristle understood their mission -- to destroy the Control society. [2.Feb.12]
Carole E. Barrowmans Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth
Hollow Earth isn’t just any book. It may be the Next Big Thing in young adult (YA) literature. It’s cover proclaims that “Imagination can be a dangerous thing,” but fans of John and Carole E. Barrowman are more than willing to take that risk. [2.Feb.12]
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By PopMatters Staff
The three-day 2011 edition of Slipped Discs -- where we feature great albums that missed our Best Albums of 2011 -- continues with the forward-thinking R&B of Frank Ocean, the Americana brilliance of Ha Ha Tonka and Lydia Loveless, the unheralded collaboration of Talib Kweli and Res, and many more.
By PopMatters Staff
The three-day 2011 edition of Slipped Discs -- where we feature great albums that missed our Best Albums of 2011 -- kicks off with Akron/Family's most experimental work, Kate Bush's sound poetry, the stunning Anna Calvi, the brilliant hip-hop of Drake, and many more.
By David Fenigsohn
I have the greatest record collection imaginable. But it's almost exactly the same as all of Rhapsody’s other customers.
By PopMatters Staff
PopMatters looks at those Slipped Discs, the ones that our writers dearly loved and thought were important, but simply didn’t draw enough votes to make the top 75. With that much great music to digest, we’re splitting these picks up over the next three days. So dive in and discover something new or revisit some of last year’s favorites.
By PopMatters Staff
This year was a year when something called Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars could be celebrated alongside the latest Gears of War game. This was a year in which one of the most reviled games, Dragon Age II, was also one of the most revered.
PopMatters previews some of February's most eagerly awaited offerings.
In speaking to PopMatters about the creation of the Flaming Lips' latest edible piece of insanity, frontman Wayne Coyne reveals how he turned mistakes into opportunities, gives much love to the major label he's signed to, and remains unshakably upbeat about what's next for one of the greatest bands working today.
It's especially hard to shift between being a world-class media theorist writing nonfiction, and a writer of fiction. That's even more so when the fiction appears as comics. Why does Douglas Rushkoff make it look so easy?
By Brian Tousey
Exploring the strange parallels between the writing of mythologist Joseph Campbell and the first four Police Academy films.
“Everything that [people] think and everything that they see and everything that they say [about me] is just make believe. It’s all just made up. Most of it is just a projection of who they wish they could be and that’s a shame because I spend a lot of time trying to tell people that they already are amazing. They see nothing in me but themselves."
By Adam Klein
Bowie's odd magnetism has long been interpreted as a function of his ambiguous sexuality, but could it be that he was transgressing more than just gender norms and heralding the rise of the man/machine?
She's a young country hopeful with an incredible voice and even more incredible songs. Speaking with PopMatters, we discover how some of her new songs were originally written when she was 16, the "anti-folk" influence on her own work, and how she very well could've made it as a stand-up comedian ...
After scoring a Mercury Music Prize nomination for her first solo album after working with Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan returns with an effort more sophisticated and mature than before, and tells PopMatters all about it ...
By PopMatters Staff
2011 was a year of good, not necessarily great, films, though the amazing choices by our staff might argue against such a overall cinematic classification.
The Flaming Lips have spent the past year doing off-beat collaborations, releasing songs in skulls both Gummi and real, and creating songs that last up to 24 hours. In this extensive interview with PopMatters, frontman Wayne Coyne discusses all of this... as well as his peacocks.
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  1. 'Touch': The First Episode Is Stunningly Effective (Reviews)
  2. The 40 Best Films of 2011 (Features)
  3. The Hidden Mythos of 'Police Academy' (Features)
  4. ''Memphis': A Tony Award-Winning Musical Brought to Your Living Room (Reviews)
  5. I'm Not Good With Feelings: 'Underworld: Awakening' (Reviews)
  6. Batman Is Boring in ‘Arkham City’ (Columns)
  7. 10 Songs That Will Make You Love U2 (Sound Affects)
  8. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 1: From 13Ghosts to Friendly Fires (Features)
  9. 'Amy' Is a Horror Game That Is Broken in All the Right Ways (Moving Pixels)
  10. The Best Games of 2011 (Features)
  11. The 10 Greatest Movie Spies Ever (Short Ends and Leader)
  12. Facebook's False Frame of Reference (Marginal Utility)
  13. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
  14. Make-Believe Rock Star: An Interview with Anthony Green (Features)
  15. Different Flavored Skulls: An Intimate Chat with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne (Features)
  16. 'Library After Air Raid': On the Survival of Culture Amid the Barbarity of War (Columns)
  17. Navigating the SOPA Soap Opera (Columns)
  18. Did Somebody Say "Snub!?!" - The 2011 Oscar Nominations (Short Ends and Leader)
  19. Paul McCartney: The Family Way (Soundtrack) (Reviews)
  20. Get Off of My Cloud!: 'Collecting' Music in the Digital Age (Features)
  21. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory (Reviews)
  22. The Future Is a Faded Song: Douglas Rushkoff on the Groundbreaking "ADD" (Features)
  23. The Five Certainties of the Oscar Nominations (Short Ends and Leader)
  24. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
  25. Alcest: Les Voyages De L'Âme (Reviews)
  26. Lamb of God: Resolution (Reviews)
  27. Lana Del Rey: Born to Die (Reviews)
  28. Counterbalance No. 66: Carole King’s 'Tapestry' (Sound Affects)
  29. Circling the Sun Machine: Re-thinking David Bowie’s 'Space Oddity' (Features)
  30. 'Namath': Broadway Joe Looks Back (Reviews)
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