Recent Features

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Wednesday, October 7 2009

Running with the Beasts: An Interview with Castanets

By Zach Hinkle

After being held-up at gunpoint, recording alone in the desert, and being covered by Sufjan Stevens, Castanets' Ray Raposa is finally ready to step out on his own with a concept album about wild beasts that features some of his most tender and dramatic performances to date.

Tuesday, October 6 2009

Hollow “Victory”: J Michael Straczynski ‘Reboots’ the Mighty Thor

By shathley Q

J Michael Straczynski's storytelling stands out as one of the most inventive in recent mainstream superhero comics.

Fame, Fortune, and a Fat Queer Icon: An Interview with the Gossip

By Saxon Baird

When the Gossip's musical mastermind Nathan Paine began constructing his own unique strain of dance-punk in Portland, few people knew what to make of it. Now, in 2009, no one dare snicker, as his band has produced the most unlikliest of fashion icons and droves of fans.

Monday, October 5 2009

The Ska Will Go On

By Jennifer Davis

Ska never died... it merely sank back underground to the grimy clubs from whence it sprang, while the genre’s biggest stars took time to rest, regroup, and strategize their comebacks.

Sunday, October 4 2009

20 Questions: Vic Chesnutt

By Zach Hinkle

Chesnutt talks to PopMatters 20 Questions about his upcoming work with Jonathan Richman, taking advice from Michael Stipe, and how his copy of Number One Hits of the Sixties is still the greatest album of all time.

Friday, October 2 2009

American Liars and the Enforcers of Honesty

By Oliver Ho

A hard-boiled history of the lie detector revels in the seedy deceptions at the roots of the search for a truth-telling machine (plus: it exposes the kinky origins of Wonder Woman).

Thursday, October 1 2009

Alligator Lizards in the Air: In Search of the Sublimely Awful Lyric

By Sean Murphy

When it comes to identifying truly awful lyrics that are the result of neither idiocy nor ambition, it’s best to consider the soft and mushy center between those two poles.

Hey Buddy, Got a Spare Time Machine? Ask Pepe Deluxé

By Alan Ranta

The day will come when Spare Time Machine is revered as the masterpiece it is by the crowd it deserves. Luckily, Tomi Paajaanen and James Spectrum have this happy pill to keep them sane until that day arrives.

Wednesday, September 30 2009

“Play Four Chords and Try to Make It a Soul Record”: An Interview with the Gaslight Anthem

By Alex Napoliello

The Gaslight Anthem's sudden rise to fame has been a bit of a whirlwind for the New Jersey-based quartet, but when Bruce Springsteen wants to duet with you on stage, perhaps it's time to acknowledge that you're on to something big ...

The New American Spook Country

By L.B. Jeffries

Spook Country is about America’s loss of innocence, its various ways of remembering the past, and an attempt to find a way of reconciling those memories with the present.

Tuesday, September 29 2009

The Devil’s Due: What Ed Brubaker Did to Reinvent Daredevil

By shathley Q

Could Ed Brubaker have written the definitive version of a character renowned for its production of 'definitive' visions?

Bulletproof Within the Music: An Interview with David Gray

By Michael Franco

For his first new album in four years, David Gray decided to go for broke, sacking his entire band, calling up friends like Annie Lennox and Jolie Holland, and -- for the first time in a long time -- no longer being self-conscious about what he's doing, describing himself as feeling "liberated" now ...

Monday, September 28 2009

Hipster Straw Men

By Adam Clair

While hipsters make an easy scapegoat for the trivialization of our culture, they are merely a symptom of a fractured, niched, and disjointed culture.

Friday, September 25 2009

America’s Best Dance Crew: A Step Into the Limelight

By Alistair Dickinson

America's Best Dance Crew judge Shane Sparks explains his show's unlikely beginnings, its ongoing significance, and what hopes lie ahead for crew-based hip-hop dancing...

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future - Part 5

By PopMatters Staff

Today: Kirby Fields on the iconic Kurt Cobain, Sarah Hentges reveres science fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler and Jillian Steinhauer on the perfect understatement of Steve Buscemi.

Thursday, September 24 2009

Various Artists: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

By Timothy Gabriele

Factory Records was as influential in design, sound production, and defining what a label could be as it was in music.

Wednesday, September 23 2009

Christy McWilson: What Dudes Won’t Tell

By Shira Richman

I felt like a schmuck for holding my notebook in front of me like a choir girl and for stopping mid-song to cry, but I felt better when I remembered how McWilson feels when she first plays a new song.

Tuesday, September 22 2009

Maximum Carnage: A Look Back

By Randy Romig

I was a kid when I first read Maximum Carnage and it became my favorite comic book series. How well does the story hold up over time? Is it still as good as I remember or was my innocent childhood love misplaced?

Monday, September 21 2009

From Scatter to Cantor: Lisa Sokolov Defines Herself

By Lisa Torem

The vocalist explains, "In the commercial world, music can be very shallow, but music as service and language gives its full due."

Sunday, September 20 2009

Bruce Springsteen: Still Going Strong at Age 60

By Louis P. Masur

The key to his success is that Springsteen believes in what he does, but doesn’t try to live inside the rock ‘n’ roll fantasy that glorifies wealth, fame, and superstardom.

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