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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
By PopMatters Staff
[21.Dec.07] :. 60 best albums | 50 best singles | 20 best re-issues | genre bests. Watch for our picks for best film, TV, DVDs, books and events starting next Monday.
Music
Across the Great Divides One Last Time: An Interview with the Mendoza Line
By Jon Langmead
[20.Dec.07] :. Timothy Braces gives the story behind the band's literal break-up album.
Music
“Bigger Than Hip-Hop or Oprah”: An Interview with Mr. J. Medeiros
By Chris Catania
[17.Dec.07] :. From Fisher Price to Phillipino porn, this smart rapper takes in all in and talks with PopMatters about his career as a b-boy, graffiti artist and social activist.
Film
Prague’s Cinematic Jukebox
By Jonathan Gainer
[14.Dec.07] :. Over 60 filmmakers and musicians from 21 countries made their way, along with 10,000 viewers, to Prague’s Kino Lucerna, Europe’s oldest, and arguably most beautiful, cinema complex, for MOFFOM.
Books
Love, Blood, and the Art of Sports Writing
By Bradford R. Pilcher
[12.Dec.07] :. The hallmark of good sports writing is that it rarely confines itself to the action on the field. You rarely see that peddled in most daily sports pages.
Music
Young and Hopeful: An Interview With Good Charlotte
By Colin McGuire
[11.Dec.07] :. Guitarist Billy Martin explains how neither ruining the scene nor a Spinal Tap-like string of drummers has bothered the band.
Music
A Blues for Otis: The Life and Legacy of a Soul Legend
By Claudrena N. Harold
[7.Dec.07] :. Though all too often overshadowed by those who came after him, the 40th anniversary of his death affords us a moment to pause and reconsider the all-too-brief life and enduring legacy of soul pioneer Otis Redding.
Music
Honor Thy Father: An Interview with Dweezil Zappa
By Tony Sclafani
[6.Dec.07] :. Dweezil Zappa has spent the last several years of his life reviving the music of his father, the late Frank Zappa. Why now?
Music
Not a Saint (Just a Living Legend)
By Josh Timmermann
[5.Dec.07] :. Lil Wayne is the best rapper in the game, and through a brilliant proliferation of mixtapes and guest spots, he's proven to be the definition of finding treasure in the journey on the way to a proper album destination.
Film
It Felt Fluid and Rhythmic: An Interview with Diablo Cody and Ellen Page
By Tricia Olszewski
[5.Dec.07] :. The story in Juno is unpredictable and touching. But Cody's dialogue is exceptional, a flurry of hip, witty words that snap and dissipate before you can accuse them of being too stylized.
Music
The Party of the Humans Has Left Us Hungover: An Interview with the Most Serene Republic
By Evan Sawdey
[4.Dec.07] :. Ryan Lenssen nearly had his hands cut off, made his bandmates re-record the same album three times over, and says that their latest album wouldn't have been possible without the help of Ayn Rand.
Music
Here’s the News, and All of It Is Good: An Interview with Mick Jones
By Michael Franco
[3.Dec.07] :. The ex-Clash artist returns with a new outlook and a new means of spreading his music, but the rebelliousness remains. Jones talks to PopMatters about his new project Carbon/Silicon.
DVDs
Berlin Alexanderplatz
By Michael Barrett
[3.Dec.07] :. Berlin Alexanderplatz, both serial film and novel, are essential to knowing Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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