Recent Features

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Friday, March 16 2007

The Lies They Tell: How to Stop the Fox Propaganda Machine

By Don Hazen

The "Sliming Bowl" is well under way, and Fox's influence is too big -- and too damaging -- to ignore. Can the progressive Internet media and blogosphere bring it down?

Thursday, March 15 2007

Film: Day 4

By Terry Sawyer and Anita Schillhorn

The gloves come off as PopMatters' SXSW Film crew digs into a drug-addled drama, takes on the terminator, and goes to blows over the mirth of marijuana.

Film: Day 3

By Terry Sawyer and Anita Schillhorn

PopMatters' SXSW film crew ventures off the beaten path today, taking a trip to Frownland, deconstructing a Supersize Me-style documentary that really pops, and feigning fondly over a horror apocalypse of the human mind.

A New Day for the NBA?

By Roy L. Pickering, Jr.

Tim Hardaway has made it especially easy to view John Amaechi as heroic, the Rosa Parks of Black British Ballers.

Wednesday, March 14 2007

The Slip [Boston/Montreal]

By John Weir

The Slip have moved away from years of jazz-inspired instrumentals and towards more traditional pop structures, leading them into exciting new territory and bringing compositional dexterity to their recent pop.

Tuesday, March 13 2007

Film: Days 1 and 2

By Terry Sawyer and Anita Schillhorn

In Day 1 and 2 of our SXSW coverage, PopMatters dives deep into the film festival, fraternizing with zombies, dissing deep on mindless Michael Moore attacks, and rocking a little Bible study with the folks from The State.

Monday, March 12 2007

PopMatters @ SXSW 2007

Edited and produced by Andrew Phillips, Megan Milks, and Sarah Zupko

Cook videoblogs from this year's SXSW festival, interviewing Mike Watt and Swamp Dogg in the process.

Complex Music for Everyone: An Interview With Loney, Dear

By Jennifer Kelly

Emil Svanägen, the Swedish pop auteur otherwise known as Loney, Dear, has no patience at all for minimalism or primitivism or any of the -isms that make music less baroquely abundant than it naturally is. "For me I want to make complex music that everyone can like."

Friday, March 9 2007

Scandinavia’s Hot Music from the Cold North

By Andrew Phillips

Held deep in the ice-bitten annals of Trondheim, Norway, By:Larm 2007 gathered hundreds of Scandinavian musicians for a massive, three-day music-and-arts festival. PopMatters covers the best new Scandanavian talent emerging from the festival and offers 20 exclusive MP3s and an exclusive mix.

Thursday, March 8 2007

Eggs, Tea, and a Georgia Peach: An Interview with Gregg Allman

By Martin Halo

The way things have gone, Allman explains, he might have been better off as a dentist.

Paul Robeson: Showing a Little Grit

By Cynthia Fuchs

Today, Paul Robeson seems impossible. How could one man have accomplished so much, commanded such respect, be so large and legendary, even during his lifetime?

Wednesday, March 7 2007

Mob Rule: An Interview with Kaiser Chiefs

By Dan MacIntosh

Keyboardist Nick Baines explains the rise from peanuts to festivals.

Inside a Chicago Fan’s Super Bowl Scuffle

By Chris Catania

Chicago sports fans suffer from a chronic self-induced nostalgic obsession, passed down from generation-to-generation, which destroys any chance for realistic expectations.

Tuesday, March 6 2007

The Stooges take 34 years off and become punk legends

By Greg Kot

The Stooges once made groundbreaking, life-altering music, and they paid dearly for it. Now more than three decades after they came and went, the Stooges have returned, acknowledged as legends and basking in unprecedented respect, adulation and cash.

Jamie, Take a Bow

By Sarah Feldman

Jamie Stewart, front man for noise-rock confessional Xiu Xiu, goes beyond therapy on his new album, The Air Force.

Monday, March 5 2007

Band of the Year: An Interview with Arcade Fire

By Greg Kot

The artistic license offered by an indie label led to the darker and more ambitious Neon Bible. It brims with arrangements that include a symphony orchestra and a choir recorded in Budapest, Hungary, and a massive church organ. "It felt sometimes like we were making a film rather than a record," Win Butler says.

Not Such a Merry Dance

By Ross Palmer

Should it matter that Simone Clarke, a ballerina for the English National Ballet, is also a member of the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party?

Friday, March 2 2007

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

By Bill Gibron

In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

Thursday, March 1 2007

The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy

By Chris Hedges

We must attend to growing social and economic inequities in order to stop the most dangerous mass movement in American history -- or face a future of fascism under the guise of Christian values.

Blood, Guts, and Counter-Revolution

By Boyd Williamson

Entreaties to “build the middle-class” and “extend a hand to whoever works for you” are of course meaningless, feel-good platitudes offered as alternatives to empowering the impoverished. A critical look at Venezuela’s number-one anti-Chávez action flick, Secuestro Express.

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