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Music Hold Steady: Dreaming of a Unified Scene By Eric Zimmermann [31.Mar.08] :. Parties, pills, and power chords -- the Hold Steady has it all. But is it enough to make indie rock fun again?

Jim White By PopMatters Staff [31.Mar.08] :. Jim White is a traveler, a Renaissance man, and a candid musical chronicler of the South. He pauses from his busy, restless artistic life to answer PopMatters' 20 questions.

Bob & Ray: The Two and Only By Kerrie Mills [28.Mar.08] :. Turning back the clock, Kerrie Mills explores the pairing of two men who became cornerstones of modern American comedy, as well as icons of the mid-20th century media landscape, Bob & Ray.

Music The Lemonheads: It’s A Shame About Ray: Collector’s Edition By Michael Metivier [28.Mar.08] :. This 1992 classic, a commercial smash and artistic peak for the Lemonheads, wants another bit part in your life. A walk-on would be fine.

Chicha Libre [New York] By Jennifer Kelly [27.Mar.08] :. Blending the strains of native South American, Latin, African, and psychedelic music, Peruvian chicha music has a trippy, lighthearted vibe all its own. Olivier Conan talks to us about this fascinating genre, his band Chicha Libre, and the syncretism of global music.

Music Youngblood Brass Band: Center:Level:Roar By Thomas Hauner [27.Mar.08] :. As a new generation continues to reshape traditional ensembles from big band to chamber and play it punk by adopting pop, it's useful to go back and marvel at one of the albums that truly innovated in this new-jack band geek era.

DVDs The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine By Marco Lanzagorta [26.Mar.08] :. The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.

Music “You Can Only Sweat or Spit or Kick So Many People”: An Interview with Colin Meloy By Evan Sawdey [25.Mar.08] :. The Decemberist explains the virtues of cover songs, the senselessness of going solo, and that he's saving the crazy stuff for later.

Music Funk’s Death Trip By Yuval Taylor [24.Mar.08] :. But for a brief moment in the early '70s, a band captured the odor of the age, the stench of death and corruption, the weary exhalation of America at its lowest. And it smelled very, very funky.

James McMurtry By PopMatters Staff [24.Mar.08] :. Smart and aware, Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry shares some pointed observations about the world with PopMatters' 20 Questions.

Events Pink Floyd Is Actually Australian By Pablo Amor [21.Mar.08] :. In which a skeptic attends his first tribute band concert and comes out the other side convinced that not only is the Australian Pink Floyd Show the real deal, it may be even better than the real thing.

Books In Print and In Conversation: Rocco Versaci By Mikita Brottman [21.Mar.08] :. Surprising though it may be to PopMatters readers, there are those who still feel that a taste for comic books is a sign of arrested development, or wasted youth.

PopMatters @ SXSW 2008 By PopMatters Staff [20.Mar.08] :. PopMatters wraps up its 2008 SXSW coverage with three pieces: Justin Follin's literary Austin/SXSW road journal, "Gutterpunks Gone Gonzo", Kevin Pearson's A to Z of the fest, and Jennifer Kelly's tips for enjoying SXSW.

Film Agnés Varda: Gleaning the Dispossessed By Chris Robé [19.Mar.08] :. It is the two divides -- between the rich and the poor, between publicity and the practices of everyday life -- that most concerns Agnés Varda.

Music Pretty Much a Rock Band: An Interview with Kinski By Jennifer Kelly [19.Mar.08] :. Kinski guitarist Chris Martin says he'll never be nervous again after the summer's last-minute, arena-sized tour with Tool. His Seattle four-piece may be the only band ever to open for Tool and record a split with Acid Mothers Temple.

Books Jeanette Winterson By PopMatters Staff [17.Mar.08] :. Jeanette Winterson's philosophy, as revealed in her response to PopMatters 20 Questions, seems to be: let Art engage and challenge you, and engage yourself artfully, in turn.

TV The Truth You Say?: The End of ‘The Wire’ By Amanda Ann Klein [14.Mar.08] :. Finding ourselves at the end of The Wire we might ask: what was the point of these sometimes hopeful but often tragic stories? What purpose did they serve?

Music Various Artists: City of Dreams By D.M. Edwards [13.Mar.08] :. This collection spreads piano, blues, street beats, and slippery funk over four discs that are as joyous and imperfect as the Crescent City itself.

Visual Arts Identity Thief: “There’s Banksy” By Katharine Rolnick [11.Mar.08] :. If people knew who he was, if they could point and whisper, “There’s Banksy” as he gingerly squeezed tomatoes at his local supermarket, would his art lose its power?

Music Honoring Philly’s Finest: Gamble and Huff By Claudrena N. Harold [10.Mar.08] :. Few producers in the history of American music moved bodies, warmed hearts, and inspired souls as effortlessly as Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. Befitting their achievements, Gamble and Huff head this year’s class of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Music Steve Wynn By PopMatters Staff [10.Mar.08] :. Wynn's new album, Crossing Dragon Bridge, comes out 22 April. He takes a moment to answer PopMatters' 20 Questions and consider what goes best with touring: a martini, Belgian chocolate, or espresso?

Multimedia The Carolina Games Summit Through the Eyes of the Ex-Core By L.B. Jeffries [7.Mar.08] :. Kids, spouses, and jobs are all huge time drains for former hardcore gamers. The appeal of games with unlockable content, beating impossible odds, or even ones that just take a lot of practice no longer work on this demographic. They really play them to kill time.

Books Service, with a Smile By Graziella Jackson [7.Mar.08] :. If Service Included seems at first the wide-eyed induction of a culinary virgin to fine food, it quickly evolves into a circus of pleasures and absurdities experienced on the dining room floor.

Music Inside the Fabulous Funk of the Brand New Heavies By Christian John Wikane [6.Mar.08] :. Andrew Levy tells PopMatters how there's no blues in the Brand New Heavies' rhythm since N'Dea Davenport returned.

Music Marillion, Afraid of Sunlight By Bob Short [6.Mar.08] :. Having made a name as prog-rock revivalists in the '80s, Marillion then lost its singer and slid slowly into semi-obscurity, the band responded with a dark album that assessed the fallout of fame.

Books Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield By Nikki Tranter [5.Mar.08] :. "I think that, except for its ludicrous violence toward the end, the Death Sentence movie does depict its character's decline and the stupidity of vengeful vigilantism." Death Wish creator Brian Garfield talks to PopMatters about remakes, sequels, writing, and the meaning of vengeance.

Music Taking Their Passion Play to the Road: An Interview with Nightwish By Andrew Blackie [5.Mar.08] :. If bassist Marco Hietala laughs easily, it's because his band's back where they want to be after a period of gloom and change.

Music If You Can’t Build a Whole, Build a Mosaic: An Interview with Jim White By Matthew Fiander [4.Mar.08] :. Jim White is changing the face of democracy, or at least taking the drunken poet approach to things. White talks to PopMatters about his new record, Transnormal Skiperoo.

Music By:Larm 2008: Pining For the Fjords By Adrien Begrand [3.Mar.08] :. PopMatters surveys the smorgasbord of Scandinavian pop, metal and everything in between at the by:Larm Festival in Oslo, Norway. Great music, splendid weather, $12 beers and lots of hot dogs later, we emerge already looking forward to next year.

Margaret Cho By PopMatters Staff [3.Mar.08] :. Margaret Cho's "Beautiful" tour, launched in Australia, hits the States March 6th. But first she pauses to braid a big beasty boy's hair, do a little shimmy, and answer PopMatters 20 Questions.

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