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Angela Johnson [New York] By Christian John Wikane [31.Jan.08] :. Part-time house diva and full time soul music icon, Angela Johnson has already achieved acclaim as a performer, but now she's ready to challenge the gender assumptions about R&B producers with a collaborative album that might be one of the year's early bests.

Al Kooper, New York City (You’re a Woman) (1971) By Rob Horning [31.Jan.08] :. This album features some of the best of Kooper's original compositions and is free of his tendency to include reinterpretations of over-familiar songs.

Film The Enemy Within By Derek Halm [30.Jan.08] :. One of the last Godzilla films, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, challenges Japan to confront its own war guilt.

Music Drive-By Truckers: The Burrs in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Saddle By Andy Tennille [29.Jan.08] :. The Truckers earned universal acclaim for their well-crafted rock albums and raucous live shows, but 2008 marks a new era. PopMatters talks with Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood.

Music It’s Hard to Rhyme Anything with Atchafalaya: An Interview with Chris Walla By Evan Sawdey [28.Jan.08] :. Chris Walla has finally made peace with Homeland Security, but that's not the only thing that the Death Cab for Cutie guitarist wants to set right. Walla talks to PopMatters.

Film Fireflies and Failureboys By Brian Holcomb [28.Jan.08] :. Digital filmmaking has provided independent filmmakers with the tools to produce watchable films, but then there's the matter of enticing people to actually watch them. An interview with indie filmmaker, Peter Marcy.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 By PopMatters Staff [25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

DVDs The Best Music DVDs of 2007 By Ron Hart [25.Jan.08] :. The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.

Music Slipped Discs 2007 By PopMatters Staff [23.Jan.08] :. PopMatters' annual tradition of offering up its Slipped Discs picks continues with the biggest installment to date. These are the albums our writers just loved, but missed our enormous top 60 albums list late last year.

Music Faded Reflection: Lance Hahn, 1967-2007 By Jonathan Kirby [23.Jan.08] :. A true punk Renaissance man with an unrelenting DIY work ethic, J Church frontman Lance Hahn may never have achieved wealth and widespread fame, but his passing in 2007 robbed the world of one of the most prolific and dedicated punk rockers of the last 20 years.

Music Nuevo Marketing: An Interview with Me Talk Pretty By Adam Williams [22.Jan.08] :. Me Talk Pretty takes a flexible approach to new forms of distribution while trying not to leave anyone bewildered.

Film The Best Movies of 2007 By Cynthia Fuchs [18.Jan.08] :. Fuchs' picks for the year's best movies reveal the difficulty of the quest, uncovering in their seeming failures more remarkable potentials.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007 By Jason Gross [15.Jan.08] :. Cultural wars, hard news dies hard and a female voice of a generation, Gross presents the sixth annual edition of his picks for the year's best music writing sans PopMatters.

Music Hospitals and Baseball Games: An Interview with Magnolia Electric Co. By Suemedha Sood [14.Jan.08] :. Jason Molina seems to write more often than he changes recording names, and the result is a recent box set from Magnolia Electric Co.

Music Sufficiently Forward-Looking: An Interview with Einstürzende Neubauten By Tim O'Neil [10.Jan.08] :. The singer and lyricist gives his take on the music-industrial complex, including the challenge of visiting the United States.

Politics Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values By Aaron McKain [8.Jan.08] :. The bass-playing presidential hopeful from Arkansas loves pop culture and Chuck Norris. Has Huckabee made irony the stalking horse for social conservatism?

PopMatters Picks: The Best (and Worst) in Show 2007 By PopMatters Staff [7.Jan.08] :. In the past 12 months, we have gone to house shows, club shows, theater shows, arena shows. Here's the best and the worst 2007 had to offer.

Music David Bowie and the Crisis Pentalogy By Mike Schiller [4.Jan.08] :. The recently-released David Bowie Box documents the ten years or so before Bowie's heart attack, during which he worked his way through his midlife crisis.

Music Everybody Enduring: An Interview with Sam Prekop By Eddie Ciminelli [3.Jan.08] :. Over the course of 14 years, the Sea and Cake has quietly established itself as a Chicago institution.

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Bo-Day-Shus!!! (1987) By James Greene Jr. [3.Jan.08] :. Two decades later, Bo-Day-Shus!!! stands as the ultimate musical document of America's '80s love affair with redneck culture.

Music Paul McCartney – We Believe In Yesterday By Gary Frenay [2.Jan.08] :. Taken together, Help! and The McCartney Years, show the breadth of an artist's career, warts and all. Few have lived a life as well-documented or as successful as Paul McCartney.

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