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Film
Independent Film Festival of Boston 2008
By Jake Meaney
[16.May.08] :.
The Independent Film Festival of Boston brought a slew of new features, documentaries, and shorts to Beantown for the sixth year. PopMatters has all the highlights (and lowlights) from films that tackled everything from vanishing languages to fashion design.
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Traveling Light
By Catherine Wagley
[16.May.08] :.
No supergroup has ever squandered more talent than the Traveling Wilburys. Yet despite themselves, they stand as an enduring testament to the sheer pleasures of collaboration.
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Tickley Feather [Philadelphia, PA]
By Jeremy Butman
[15.May.08] :.
Philadelphia's Tickley Feather brings a new face to the Philly music scene -- in part by tackling the national stage as a new recruit to Paw Tracks.
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Music
The Plain Truth About Karen Dalton: An Interview with Joe Loop
By Nate Cunningham
[13.May.08] :.
One-time coffeehouse proprietor Joe Loop shed light on the mysterious Karen Dalton with his notes to the Cotton-Eyed Joe recording and speaks to PopMatters about his memories of the '60s folk scene and his friend Karen.
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Music
Animals in Time: Neko Case and the Contemporary Country
By Michelle Banks
[12.May.08] :.
The music of Neko Case shows us a world of danger, guilt, regret, displaced hearts, lost time and lost faith, several deaths, the matter-of-factness of animals, and reckoning. In other words, exactly what the contemporary moment shows us.
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Tod A of Firewater
By PopMatters Staff
[12.May.08] :.
PopMatters 20 Questions caught up with Tod A of Firewater in Bali, where he shares some thoughts about cultural and political matters, and speculates on what visiting extraterrestrials might look like.
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The Consumer Consumed
By Claudia Grinnell
[9.May.08] :.
In pursuing the convenience of a Web 2.0 world, we are consenting to being incorporated into a finely tuned marketing machine, with ever more subtly adapted gears, to our meet our needs -- manufactured and otherwise.
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Politics
Out of Africa: Barack Obama in Pan-African Music
By Drew Hinshaw
[9.May.08] :.
While Barack Obama's candidacy has sparked new political interest within the United States, perhaps the best indication of his foreign policy advantage may be found in the music praising Obama coming from other countries around the world.
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Multimedia
Play’s the Thing: The Art of Video Game Writing
By L.B. Jeffries
[7.May.08] :.
Many of the people who make the video games you play don't like having a plot at all, much less a good one. It constrains their designs and forces them to sacrifice player freedom for something that the player should be doing themselves.
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Guster’s “Jesus on the Radio”
By Kirthana Ramisetti
[7.May.08] :.
Ramisetti realizes that a simple love and appreciation for a song is all that matters in the end -- how it finds you, and how it moves you -- even when it comes from a random YouTube video.
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Events
Winter Music Conference 2008
By David Tatasciore
[6.May.08] :.
In his account of the nation's premier techno festival, David Tatasciore captures the good, the bad, and the ugly that made the Winter Music Conference such an unforgettable experience.
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Music
Saudade: A Conversation with Carly Simon
By Christian John Wikane
[5.May.08] :.
Tall and tan and still very lovely, Carly Simon takes a cue from Antonio Carlos Jobim on her new album. So why does All About Eve make a cameo?
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Pico Iyer
By PopMatters Staff
[5.May.08] :.
The compassionate, prolific writer and traveler, Pico Iyer, talks with PopMatters 20 Questions, about the Dalai Lama, Benji, Keith Richards, and Paddington Bear.
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Snap!: “I’ve Got the Power”
By Emily Popek
[2.May.08] :.
In the unlikely form of a Snap! album, Popek reveals how an ephemeral dance track helped her discover both hip-hop and the understanding that all music is for everyone.
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Music
Fun & Games: Killing Joke in the mid-’80s
By Adrien Begrand
[1.May.08] :.
Though lumped in with post-punk acts, Killing Joke were considerably less edgy than their peers, their blunt, pulverizing music echoing the rage and cynicism expressed in the songs making them somewhat of an anomaly.
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