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Music Frank Sinatra: A Voice in Time (1939-1952) By Tim O'Neil [30.Nov.07] :. Sinatra's reputation was a victim of the changing times, and I don't think it's possible to overstate the effect that this transition has had upon the perception of his music.

Books E.L. Doctorow Has His Splendid Crow’s-Nest By Julia Keller [30.Nov.07] :. When it comes to beholding America, E.L. Doctorow always wants the masthead seat. And makes the most of it.

3rd Day Syndrome [London] By Christian John Wikane [29.Nov.07] :. 3rd Day Syndrome has infected London audiences with their singular style of funk, rock, and soul, all while adhering to a contemporary independent, DIY ethos. Could the U.S. be close behind?

Music Let Me Into Your Mind: How J.Ralph Changed My Life By Evan Sawdey [29.Nov.07] :. Evan Sawdey gives his personal take on the familiar tale of first musical love, explaining how stumbling across the work of under-the-radar musician J.Ralph opened up new doors into a consciousness of music's capabilities.

Music New Ground: An Interview with PJ Harvey By Jennifer Kelly [28.Nov.07] :. PJ Harvey talks to PopMatters about her haunting new album, learning piano by ear, limitless imagination, and why she decided to do a string of solo shows to bring White Chalk to her fans.

Books Brave New World By Chris Barsanti [28.Nov.07] :. Naomi Klein convincingly argues in her crushingly pessimistic but magisterial work The Shock Doctrine that the future could well be a "cruel and ruthlessly divided" place where "money and race buy survival".

Music The Unscene By Bryce Merrill [27.Nov.07] :. Is it possible to make pop music without concern that it's popular? A look at paradoxes of home recording.

TV The Ghost Whisperer’s Television Whisperer By Quentin B. Huff [26.Nov.07] :. Reasons to watch Jennifer Love Hewitt in 'Ghost Whisperer', ways to detect rounded characters on a flat screen, and why I should be called 'Television Whisperer'.

Music A Constant Questioning: An Interview with Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown By Eddie Ciminelli [26.Nov.07] :. The key member of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade matches his ambition with his humility. And his coffee.

Music The Cost of Freedom: The Rascals’ Struggle for Change By Tony Sclafani [21.Nov.07] :. In 1967-68, The Rascals were on top of the pop charts. So they decided to use their power to take a stand on Civil Rights. That’s when the problems started.

Music Various Artists: The Brit Box By Michael Keefe [20.Nov.07] :. Tracing the evolution of UK alt-pop from just after new wave died, through the Britpop explosion, and ending right before Coldplay emerged, this four-disc box set is both an excellent survey and a very well sequenced mix.

Music Too Young to Let Go: Jay-Z, Medicare, and You By Josh Timmermann [19.Nov.07] :. Jay-Z's evolution into the bridge between hip-hop and mainstream popular culture has been a long one, but his nostalgic turn worked to make him a figure whose mythos will likely endure into the old age of a generation.

TV Coming Up Clausen: An Interview with The Simpsons Composer By Dan MacIntosh [19.Nov.07] :. Alf Clausen explains the workings behind the music of The Simpsons, and shows how he fits right in.

Music Standing Under Stars: An Interview with Rahsaan Patterson By Christian John Wikane [16.Nov.07] :. The innovative soul stylist tested the concept of God and what did he find? Patterson talks to PopMatters.

Music Pop Goes Twang: The Best of the Americana Music Festival 2007 By Sarah Zupko and Karen Zarker [16.Nov.07] :. PopMatters attended the 8th annual Americana Music Festival in Nashville. We offer our hard-to-pare-down picks of the best Americana had to offer this year.

Books Olaf Stapledon: Of His Time, and Others By L.B. Jeffries [16.Nov.07] :. To sit and complain about the lack of credit Stapledon receives is to undermine the very principle for which he was writing about: mankind's yearning for community.

Multimedia First Person of Shooters: An Interview with Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel By Ryan Smith [15.Nov.07] :. "I don't think Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan or any of those guys took it lightly when they became who they were. It was because they were obsessed about something, probably a little crazy and I think I do the same thing."

Music Deadly Packaging: The Cover Art of No Limit Records By Drew Hinshaw [14.Nov.07] :. If any one visual movement did justice to the absurd, untenable profitability of that dot-com windfall, it was the striking art of No Limit Records, the apex and nadir of commercial hip-hop thuggery.

Books After the Silicon Rush By Patrick Schabe [13.Nov.07] :. In the 20-plus years since cyberpunk threw down a gauntlet to science fiction and stormed the cultural gates, its vision has been praised, criticized, absorbed, and integrated into the mainstream. Does post-cyberpunk have something new to offer?

Music Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed By Evan Sawdey [12.Nov.07] :. Three decades letter, Metal Machine Music gets a classical reworking. Lou Reed talks to PopMatters about this legendary album and Zeitkratzer's interpretation of it.

Film It’s Not Nice, It’s Art! By Chadwick Jenkins [12.Nov.07] :. In the film version of The Threepenny Opera, Pabst managed to accomplish what Brecht could not: a true reconciliation between the satiric jubilance of the original stage play and the politically driven cynicism of Brecht’s revision.

Music Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 By Tom Useted [9.Nov.07] :. For the first time, the musical and attitudinal highs and lows of the Bay Area scene are on full, accurate, and coherent display. Forty years was a long time to wait.

DVDs Incomplete Coquette: The Brigitte Bardot Collection By Bill Gibron [9.Nov.07] :. As a vision, Bardot is still alluring. As an actress, however, she’s a strange cinematic cipher. These films just do not serve Bardot.

Music Southern Comfort: An Interview with Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell By Joe Tacopino [8.Nov.07] :. Band of Horses' reluctant frontman talks about moving back South to record his new album, the fading playoff hopes of the New York Yankees, and indie rock's most influential beards.

Music The Tragically Miffed By Matthew McKean [7.Nov.07] :. Canada's Barenaked Ladies make some of today's best, most relevant protest music. No, really.

Music Taking It Slow: An Interview with Glenn Mercer of the Feelies By Jennifer Kelly [6.Nov.07] :. With Bill Million, Glenn Mercer headed up the Feelies, one of the best and most underrated bands of '70s and '80s. Now he's back with a solo album that features several ex-Feelies and has the same bewitching shimmer.

Music In Defense of Britney By Josh Timmermann [5.Nov.07] :. There’s nothing but guilt surrounding Britney -- guilt for secretly enjoying “Gimme More”, guilt for tuning in to see what sort of trouble she’s gotten herself into today, guilt for not having the balls to use the word “misogyny“.

Music Pastures of Plenty: An Interview with Fields By Robert Collins [5.Nov.07] :. It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Fields are proving that on a daily basis.

Music Sea of Heartbreak: Dennis Wilson’s Majestic Solo Work By Tony Sclafani [2.Nov.07] :. Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, released 30 years ago, is majestic and haunting, a work as rich and complex as almost anything the Beach Boys released. So why is it out of print?

Film The Cult of Personality By Michael Barrett [2.Nov.07] :. Stalin's reach into Soviet Cinema is undeniable in these films, available on DVD: The Fall of Berlin: The Restored Soviet WW2 Epic, I Worked for Stalin, and Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn

Books Michel Faber’s Fantasies By Jason B. Jones [1.Nov.07] :. "My fiction should make the reader want to grab some of these characters and shout, 'No, no, can't you see it's not LIKE that?!'"

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