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TV Extra Ordinary: Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Mad Prophets By Jason Fraley [29.Feb.08] :. Despite its talking hamburgers, mechanical rabbits and the like, Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force is less surreal than hyperreal.

Music Dear Planet Earth: An Interview with Sebastian Bach By Adam Williams [29.Feb.08] :. Through reality shows, theater appearances, and Hep Alien, the enthusiastic Bach keeps his focus (and his funding) on his music, even if the industry is a bitchslap.

Film The Grand Tension of Peter Watkins By Michael Buening [28.Feb.08] :. Peter Watkins is a stubborn, one-man army, relentlessly pushing the film medium in a direction that is more challenging, productive, and involving.

Souled American, Around the Horn (1990) By Zach Schonfeld [28.Feb.08] :. Chicago’s Souled American's album, Around the Horn, may be the most uniquely beautiful alt-country album you’ve never heard.

Multimedia Rejecting the Conventional Industry: The Independent Gaming Scene By L.B. Jeffries [27.Feb.08] :. What makes the games these people produce so impressive is not just the dedication of the people making them, but the staggering creativity that makes so many of them stand out.

Music I Felt Like Another Country Myself: An Interview with Tift Merritt By Michael Franco [26.Feb.08] :. PopMatters talks to Merritt in a revealing and engrossing discussion. She gives insight into her art, her career, and how the two are sometimes at odds with one another.

Culture I Am Obama: The American Imagination and the New Black Hero By Derik Smith [25.Feb.08] :. If Americans are willing to believe that the former Fresh Prince of West Philly can save the world all by himself, then there is a possibility that a black man may be the next president of the United States.

Mike Doughty By PopMatters Staff [25.Feb.08] :. Former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty is a Renaissance Man of sorts, plying his trade as a musician, songwriter, poet, playwright, photographer, and blogger and he answers PopMatters' 20 questions.

DVDs Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Jake By Bill Gibron [22.Feb.08] :. Chinatown remains a stalwart of '70s cinema. The uninspired follow-up 16 years later reminds one that, sometimes, a masterpiece needs to simply be left alone.

Culture Move Over Alpha Geeks, Here Come the Fangrrls By Elizabeth Todd Doyle [22.Feb.08] :. Thousands of women gather for a sci-fi convention, and they have a pretty great life, thanks very much.

Comics A New Era: Infinite Crisis, Civil War, and the End of the Modern Age of Comics By Shawn O'Rourke [22.Feb.08] :. The changes in the superhero mythos resulting mainly from Infinite Crisis, Civil War show the Modern Age has ended and the Postmodern Age is here. A new era in superhero comics has begun.

Books A Cooler Head Prevails By Michael Antman [21.Feb.08] :. A humane and practical corrective to an argument that has grown far too overheated, Cool It is a breath of fresh air that needs to be read by everyone who fears for the future of our world.

Film Revinventing the Way We Live: Interview with Ray McCormack By Ellise Fuchs [20.Feb.08] :. "If we wait (for a time without enough oil), then it is going to be very, very rough for us all. It’s not a question of if or when it will happen, it’s a question of how it will happen," says the director of A Crude Awakening.

Music Isolation Songs: An Interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon By Jennifer Kelly [19.Feb.08] :. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon holed up in the north Wisconsin woods to try to get his life and his music back on track ... and, in the process, almost by accident, made one of this year's most hauntingly beautiful folk-rock albums.

Culture America’s Most Policed Art Form: Subway Graffiti, NYC’s Visual Criminal By T.M. Wolf [18.Feb.08] :. The policing of the art form has been so thorough and enduring that it’s become possible to see hip-hop as just that: an agent, or better, a target, that has a life over and above the individuals that practice it.

Allison Moorer By PopMatters Staff [18.Feb.08] :. Allison Moorer's new collection of female penned covers drops tomorrow and she hits the road with hubby Steve Earle, but not before answering PopMatters' 20 questions.

Music Which Echoes Belong? By Brandon Kreitler [15.Feb.08] :. Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is often dubbed a postmodern classic. But what is that even supposed to mean?

Music Forgotten Treasures of ‘60s Soul: The Chambers Brothers’ Vault Recordings By Claudrena Harold [15.Feb.08] :. Long before the Chambers Brothers psychedelicized soul with their anthemic classic, “Time Has Come Today”, the talented band gained respect for their eclectic blend of blues, gospel, and classic rock ‘n’ roll.

Music Flux as Inspiration: An Interview with Oakley Hall By Ryan Henriquez [14.Feb.08] :. Pat Sullivan and Rachel Cox take us from Morrissey to Blake to the Clancy Brothers, while warning us not to eat the fish. The Brooklyn indie band discusses this and more with PopMatters.

Politics Yes Wii Can vs. R3ady By Ross McGowan [13.Feb.08] :. How the ongoing video game console war parallels the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries.

Music Dead Grammy Walking By Terry Sawyer [12.Feb.08] :. The Grammys are a tradition whose bottom has fallen out, a relic still standing only because people are too bored to say otherwise.

Music Trophy Case: The 2008 Grammy Awards By Evan Sawdey [12.Feb.08] :. Somehow, Kanye West was able to make the entire evening about himself. Surprise, surprise...

Culture No Punk Left Behind By Rebecca Skulnick Cohen [11.Feb.08] :. How dissent is sustained in the face of consumerism and co-optation in Bloomington, Indiana, a quintessential midwestern college town.

Music Robyn Hitchcock By PopMatters Staff [11.Feb.08] :. PopMatters debuts "20 Questions", a weekly feature of short, sassy questions aimed to encourage playful responses that reveal the gist of the artist. We couldn't think of a better person to start with than the witty and clever Robyn Hitchcock.

Music Just Another Brick: The Phases of Pink Floyd By Michael Keefe [8.Feb.08] :. Keefe trolls through all the highs and lows of the Pink Floyd catalogue, surveying both their history and offering video highlights of the seminal band's many incarnations.

Multimedia Headshots 4 Jesus By Cole Stryker [8.Feb.08] :. In its quest to be seen as a legitimate way of life among a legion of detractors, the Christian Church has turned to alternative methods of getting its point across.

The Teenage Prayers [New York] By David Banash [7.Feb.08] :. Bucking the "nostalgia band" trend by being authentically nostalgic, the Teenage Prayers cause you to give blessings to that raw, purely enthusiastic adolescent music fan in all of us.

Culture Plough Shares: Gardening’s Radical Edge By Olly Zanetti [6.Feb.08] :. Can political activism be achieved with a trowel and some bulbs? For Guerrilla Gardeners, the act of urban planting is more than beautification, it's a reclamation of public space that challenges concepts of municipal ownership.

Music Putney Appalachian Pop: An Interview with Hot Chip By Kevin Pearson [5.Feb.08] :. Moving from the bedroom to the studio, Hot Chip might have matured, but don't think they still won't take the gloves off. Hot Chip talks to PopMatters about their fine new record.

Music The Light Within: The 21st Century Love Songs of Nick Cave By Jillian Burt [4.Feb.08] :. As the Bad Seeds prepare to release their new album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Burt considers the mythological symbols in Nick Cave's songs and what they say about the time we live in.

Books PopMatters Picks: Best of Books 2007 By PopMatters Staff [1.Feb.08] :. Memoirs of astounding heartbreak, apocalyptic analysis of the economy, the environment, and the future... looking back at 2007 books, eh, we've seen worse.

Film When Rules Were Meant to be (Silently) Broken By Michael Barrett [1.Feb.08] :. The films produced by Thanhouser may seem fragile in their faded beauty and quaint devices, but their very age and quaintness become strengths to who admire the style and vigor of silent cinema.

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