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Music Beating the System: Radiohead Gives The Man the Middle Finger By Rachel Smucker [31.Oct.07] :. Like it or not, Radiohead's new marketing strategy is changing the way people think about digital music.

Multimedia E for Some But Not All By Ryan Smith [31.Oct.07] :. I felt at times like a kid at an amusement park on a rainy, drizzly day where the weather scares most people off, so the lines for the roller coasters are practically nonexistent.

Music Michael Gira in His Own Words By Jennifer Kelly [30.Oct.07] :. Even after decades of creating powerful music, first through Swans and now with Angels of Light, Michael Gira finds the creative process mysterious, chaotic and a little frightening.

TV Not Just a Fluke: How Darin Morgan Saved The X-Files By Jonathan Kirby [29.Oct.07] :. After playing the “Fluke Man”, Darin Morgan reluctantly agreed to write for The X-Files. His four episodes turned a struggling show around with humor and a deep concern with the pain of loneliness in a strange and incomprehensible world.

Music Rise Like a Phoenix: An Interview with Annie Lennox By Christian John Wikane [26.Oct.07] :. Annie Lennox speaks to PopMatters about how to navigate through life's "juggernauts" and the fine art of living.

Culture Teenage Wasteland By Paul Caine [26.Oct.07] :. A night in a police cruiser in a typical American college town reveals the cumulative effects of suburban boredom.

PopMatters @ CMJ 2007 By PopMatters Staff [25.Oct.07] :. PopMatters' three-day CMJ wrap-up concludes with our picks for Belles of the Ball, artists who rose to the CMJ challenge and offered the best performances of the entire event.

Music Badfinger: Wish You Were Here By Evan Sawdey [25.Oct.07] :. The Beatles' favorite pet project left a failing Apple to record a pair of albums with Warner Bros. that haven't been reissued until now. Thankfully, it was worth the wait.

DVDs Past Imperfect: Luis Buñuel’s Early Work By Bill Gibron [24.Oct.07] :. Sometimes, filmmaking genius is evident in every movie a cinematic master makes. In the case of this famed Spanish surrealist and his two early efforts, the future achievements are well hidden.

DVDs PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD By PopMatters Staff [22.Oct.07] :. As a wrap up to the five-part Best of TV on DVD feature, we offer this partial wish list, this "where are they now?" wistfulness to some of our favorite forgotten shows that should be on DVD.

Music Life of Ryan: An Interview with the Cribs By Robert Collins [22.Oct.07] :. The Cribs made a name for themselves as brash, belligerent punks, but they’ve cemented their place in the rock world with their music -- an intelligent, resolutely British take on power pop that’s actually done better across the pond than in Britain.

Sports Bill Simmons and the New Sports Journalism By Alex Gallo-Brown [19.Oct.07] :. How has sports writing evolved in a world where sports fans are inundated with more information than they can possibly process? ESPN columnist Bill Simmons may be the best case study.

Music Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief By D.M. Edwards [19.Oct.07] :. Humor is a funny thing. Here to prove it are three Monty Python albums, revealing the revolutionary constructs of their work, the dangers of self-parody, and, well, something completely different.

Film Paul Newman’s Influential, Classic Performances in The Hustler and The Verdict By Matt Mazur [18.Oct.07] :. In an era of relatively reserved American cinema, when most actors would be concerned with their images as leading men, Newman was not afraid to experiment and go with his artistic impulses.

Music Max Power: An Interview with Maxïmo Park By Robert Collins [18.Oct.07] :. From the market streets of China to the back alleys of London, Maxïmo Park are poised to take over the world.

Books Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life By Marcelo Ballvé [17.Oct.07] :. Tao Lin has developed his own unmistakable and unique style by utilizing a contagiously honest way of writing. Marcelo Ballvé discusses Bed and Eeeee eee eeee with the author.

Music Play It for Today:  10 Years of Labrador By Dave Heaton [17.Oct.07] :. The Swedish indie-pop label Labrador has been creating their own universe of imaginary blockbuster singles and celebrating the immortal power of "ba-ba-ba" for 10 years now.

Music “Acufunkture” Revisited: An Interview with Nile Rodgers By Christian John Wikane [16.Oct.07] :. Record Mirror called Debbie Harry's KooKoo "riveting". Smash Hits called it "dull". PopMatters speaks with the man behind a notoriously misunderstood album and why listeners didn't even remove the shrink-wrap.

Music Get Ready for Her Sexy Battle: An Interview with Deborah Harry By Christian John Wikane [15.Oct.07] :. The doyenne of New York's downtown scene gets "dirty and deep" with her fifth solo album. Harry talks to PopMatters and we offer a guide to her solo years.

Film Spirited Away: The 45th Annual New York Film Festival - Part Two By Michael Buening [15.Oct.07] :. Thematically, this year's New York Film Festival was strong on sophisticated explorations of religion and spirituality. Stylistically, many films eschewed intricate plotting for evocative visuals.

Visual Arts The Lost Generation and the Art of Living By John Davidson [12.Oct.07] :. Sara and Gerald Murphy inspired an astonishing array of the century’s greatest writers and artists; they helped float, inspire, and otherwise sustain the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Ferdinand Leger, Man Ray, Cole Porter, John Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker, to name but a few.

Film Coping Strategies: Notes on the 26th Vancouver International Film Festival - Part Two By Josh Timmermann [10.Oct.07] :. Like Jarhead, Sam Mendes's underappreciated Gulf War film, Brian De Palma's Redacted clearly understands pop culture's real-life effect on soldiers serving in the post-Vietnam era.

Film Coping Strategies: The 26th Vancouver International Film Festival - Part One By Josh Timmermann [8.Oct.07] :. Most of the films we saw, in one way or another, are about coping -- with guilt, with war, with torture, with disease, with unrequited love, with social perception, with political change, with death, with history.

Music A Crash Course in Heavy Metal for Neophyte Heshers By Adrien Begrand [5.Oct.07] :. If ever there was a genre anthology just begging to be picked apart and criticized by obsessive fans, it’s a metal collection; Rhino's The Heavy Metal Box, an introduction to the music circa 1968-91, gets its share of disassembling, here.

Music Losing California By Rob Horning [5.Oct.07] :. After the Mamas and the Papas, unheralded songwriter John Phillips released one perfect solo album before disintegrating into addiction and self-recrimination.

Music Yuri Lane [Chicago] By Suemedha Sood [4.Oct.07] :. Lights go up onstage revealing one man. The bass drum lays down the initial beat. A boom, chick, boom-boom, chick, punctuated by an explosive blow to the crash cymbal. It’s an orgy of percussion, and it's all coming from a single mouth.

Film Family Dramas: The 45th Annual New York Film Festival, Part 1 By Michael Buening [4.Oct.07] :. The most noticeable feature of this year's New York Film Festival is the preponderance of American pictures.

TV Big Brother USA, Season Eight: The Most Dangerous Game By Quentin B. Huff [3.Oct.07] :. For Eight Seasons, Big Brother USA has brought numerous twists to reality TV. Here is a twist Big Brother might not have seen coming.

Music Fire Engines: Hungry Beat By Jennifer Kelly [3.Oct.07] :. Cowbell-crazed, no-wave noised, robot-funk grooves from the short-lived Scottish band best known for inspiring Franz Ferdinand. Even the most cursory listen provides that they were much, much more interesting than that.

Music C’mon Over and Let’s Make a Record: An Interview with Devendra Banhart By Jennifer Kelly [2.Oct.07] :. How the pied piper of psych folk and his ever growing band of followers holed up in a Topanga Canyon house, broke out a boxload of exotic instruments and kicked out the jams of Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.

Music So Said the Lighthouse Keepers By Evan Sawdey [1.Oct.07] :. When Klaatu debuted in the '70s no one knew who they were. Then suddenly everyone thought they were the Beatles reunited. And then came the backlash.

Film The Face of Another Cinema: Classic and Modern Mirrors of Japan By Michael Barrett [1.Oct.07] :. Criterion captures three films directed jaggedly by Hiroshi Teshigahara, scripted enigmatically by novelist Kobo Abe, and scored unnervingly by Toru Takemitsu, and provides a welcome box of five films by Yasujiro Ozu.

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