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Music Architecture and Morality: The Wedding Present Revisited By Roger Holland [31.May.07] :. Pop scholars frequently undervalue The Wedding Present. If the Smiths were the undeniable figurehead for the UK's thriving independent pop scene of the 1980s, then Gedge's little-band-that-could certainly inherited that mantle.

Film Independent Film Festival of Boston 2007 By Jake Meaney [31.May.07] :. PopMatters took a seat in dark spaces to explore the shadowy places of the human mind, as brought to light via the filmmakers at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Music From Breakfast in Bed to Becoming a Deadhead: An Interview With Joan Osborne By Colin McGuire [30.May.07] :. Osborne talks with PopMatters about performing with the Funk Brothers, filling the shoes of Jerry Garcia, and the sidewalk inspiration for her latest album of R&B and soul songs.

Film Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction By Bill Gibron [29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer By Chris Salewicz [25.May.07] :. Part Five: Earthquake Weather sets Strummer wandering solo through his "wilderness years" in the not so barren climate of Southern California.

Film PopMatters @ Cannes 2007: In the Thick of It By Hannah Eaves [23.May.07] :. Michael Moore's acclaimed Sicko dominates our critic's early experience at Cannes. Word has it there are some celebrities here... somewhere. Although none are spotted, Hannah's in good company with a lot of well-dressed and rather fine-looking people.

TV Make Mine Vanilla: Season Sanjaya Six and the American Idol Illusion By Lana Cooper [21.May.07] :. Far beyond the media sensation of adoration and hate that surrounded Sanjaya Malakar's stint on Idol is how his booting laid bare how empty and soulless the whole affair has become.

Music On All Cylinders: An Interview With Fujiya & Miyagi By Joseph Capriglione [18.May.07] :. The British trio completes their first US visit to cap off their unexpected rise.

Music Growing Up Hurts: Dolly Parton’s Albums of “Independence” By Dave Heaton [17.May.07] :. The songs in the new Dolly Parton re-issue series illustrate her story of attaining stardom, of growing up in a one-room cabin in the mountains of Tennessee as one of 12 children and then leaving that all behind for a career in Nashville.

Sports Bannister’s Magic Run By Rajgopal Nidamboor [17.May.07] :. In May 1954, runner Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier.

Music Stevie Nicks: Dreams Unwound By Christian John Wikane [16.May.07] :. Alternately revered and ridiculed, Stevie Nicks has impacted an entire generation of artists with her bewitching tales and stirring stage theatrics. Crystal Visions traces the tangled web of her solo career.

Film PopMatters @ Cannes 2007: Preview By Hannah Eaves [15.May.07] :. PopMatters' film critic, Hannah Eaves, preps for Cannes 2007 with some tips from Telluride Film Festival's Gary Meyer and Tom Luddy, both seasoned veterans of Cannes. Hannah is fabulously ready. Step aside, Kim Novak.

Music America’s Most Policed Art Form: The Rise of the Informal Mixtape Economy By T.M. Wolf [14.May.07] :. Rapper or DJ, these informal economy entrepreneurs have one foot in the world of suits and contracts, and one foot in the world of white-tees and handshake deals. They operate in that gray area between legal and illegal... the high-stakes informal economy.

Media Total freedom: Interview with Bob Odenkirk By Jesse Hicks [14.May.07] :. Derek and Simon is about two guys -- and now it's expanded to include some of their friends -- and their search for women to sleep with.

Music Back to Basics: An Interview with Wilco By Greg Kot [14.May.07] :. Jeff Tweedy discusses Wilco's new effort Sky Blue Sky, a back-to-basics work evoking The Basement Tapes, and the era of digital music.

The 10th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival By Kevin Greer, Jyllian Gunther, and Isaac Miller [11.May.07] :. Subversive behavior is encouraged, girl-watching is indulged, Hunter S. Thompson gets some respect, and the pig-out at the wrap-up Awards Barbeque begins.

Film Fires on the Plain: I’ll Go On By Mark Labowskie [11.May.07] :. More than any political or social reading, what Fires on the Plain is really about is life in extremis -- life on the border of death.

Culture Electric Litigationland By Michael E. Ross [10.May.07] :. The lucrative marketing of Jimi Hendrix's image has spawned a series of lawsuits and possibly a reality show.

Music British Music During Its Most Fertile Period By Steve Horowitz [10.May.07] :. Before The Beatles and other British Invasion artists set foot in the United States, young people already saw folk music as a safe and respectable entity. Even Jerry Lewis knew that. No wonder Bob Dylan plugged in and went electric.

TV The Shield: The Detective & the Lieutenant By Quentin B. Huff [9.May.07] :. Detective Vic Mackey kills cops, steals money, and beats suspects. How, then, can the man trying to bring him to justice be the "bad guy"?

Music Could Denton, Texas, be the nation’s next hot spot for indie rock? By Cary Darling and Preston Jones [9.May.07] :. When it comes to Texas and music, Austin typically grabs all the glory. But the "live-music capital of the world" might need to watch its back.

Music The Doors: Open for Business (Again) By Sean Murphy [8.May.07] :. If the first two Doors albums are drugs, they’d be of the decidedly psychedelic variety; the next couple are a dangerous cocktail of amphetamines and Quaaludes. Morrison Hotel is beer: authentic, unfiltered, as American as it gets. L.A. Woman manages to be all of the above.

Film BAMcinématek Presents: Best of 2006: Just on the Edge By Michael Buening [8.May.07] :. BAMcinématek’s Best of 2006 series served as a corrective to the clutter of year-end-best film selections, highlighting the unrecognized or undistributed.

Music One of Those Bands: An Interview With the Noisettes By Chris Catania [7.May.07] :. Shingai Shoniwa of the Noisettes turns the tables on the Western mindset and contemporary pop music, as well as on our interviewer.

Music The Gubernatorial Candidates [New Orleans] By D.M. Edwards [7.May.07] :. One of the gems of the often overlooked New Orleans underground rock scene, the Gubernatorial Candidates exist in a place where history overlaps and the Big Easy sidles up to post-punk and post-rock in equal doses.

Film The PopMatters Summer Movie Preview By Bill Gibron [4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. Today: August films, including The Bourne Ultimatum.

Music Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy By Vladimir Wormwood [3.May.07] :. All hail the excitable boy genius of studio-savvy singer/songwriter-dom. PopMatters examines the new slate of Zevon re-issues.

Film A Guide to All Things Spider-Man By Aaron Sagers, Ethan Alter, Kelly Federico [2.May.07] :. Before you see Spider-Man 3, there's a few things you should know about the spider's lair. So go ahead, get tangled up in this extensive guide to Spider-Man's wonderful world-wide web.

Music Fingers Crossed: An Interview With Field Music By Elizabeth Black [1.May.07] :. The Sunderland trio can't find enough time to make as much music as they'd like, but they're working on it.

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