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Thursday, July 9 2009

The Love You Save: A Tribute to Michael Jackson

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters concludes its tribute to the odd, turbulent rule of the King of Pop. Today: The MJ Top Ten Tribute by Diepiriye Kuku | The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster by Timothy Gabriele | The Teflon King: Ronald Reagan and the Death of Michael Jackson by Kevin M. Brettauer | Artomising MJ by Kiernan Curran | 'Thriller': The First in Meta Horror by Teresa Jusino | Michael Jackson Forever by Michael Caylo-Baradi

Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition)

By Sean Murphy

Mingus Ah Um sounds like the 20th Century: it is a self-portrait of a man who helped define the direction of post-bop jazz, commenting on the country that created him.

Wednesday, July 8 2009

Collapse: 1989’s Legion of Super-Heroes

By shathley Q

This comic offers a profound meditation on the far-reaching effects the confluence of a literary revolution, engineering miracle and scientific doctrine would have on popular culture.

Tuesday, July 7 2009

Eleni Mandell

By PopMatters Staff

Acclaimed songwriter Eleni Mandell answers PopMatters ‘Miss America’-like 20 Questions with self-deprecating humor.

Monday, July 6 2009

Viva Africa: An Interview with Amadou & Mariam and BLK JKS

By Cary Darling

African music, often exiled from the pop mainstream, is making a new incursion in the U.S. Darling speaks to two major African artists, plus highlights the best new releases.

Monday, June 29 2009

The Edge of Change: The Most Memorable Albums of 1999

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters turns 10 this year and to celebrate we are looking back at the popular music that defined the year of our birth. [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5]

2009 Silverdocs Documentary Festival

By Chris Barsanti

Silverdocs 2009 was a rewarding and refreshing event, offering classic and independent documentaries and previewing several that will crop up over the next year or two on TV and art house screens.

Friday, June 26 2009

The Futility of Truth or Reconciliation in Waltz with Bashir

By Luke Z. Fenchel

Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn.

Long Live the King: Remembering Michael Jackson

By Evan Sawdey

As the world mourns the passing of its definitive pop star, we must ask ourselves why his death means so much to us -- and where the legacy of one of the greatest entertainers of all time now stands.

Wednesday, June 24 2009

Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition)

By Sean Murphy

The secret to creating music that stands the test of time is to create timeless music: Sketches of Spain was, and remains, quite unlike anything else created in the jazz idiom.

Tuesday, June 23 2009

Aleksandar Hemon

By PopMatters Staff

“Hell,” Hemon tells PopMatters 20 Questions, “is being stuck at an airport without a book, starving for thought, forced to watch CNN.” Heaven might be a bathtub full of Turkish coffee …

Friday, June 19 2009

Bumming Smokes in Paris and London: George Orwell’s Obsession with Tobacco

By Josh Indar

Cigarette smoke so permeates George Orwell’s stories it almost leaves stains on one’s fingers when reading his books.

Primavera Sound: On the Beach

By Ally Brown

Providing the perfect midway point between British and American festivals, Primavera Sound really is the best of both worlds.

Thursday, June 18 2009

The New Games Journalism

By L.B. Jeffries

The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.

The History of Comic Conventions

By shathley Q

This edition of "Iconographies" looks at the rise in popularity of the comics convention, and the pop-cultural changes conventions have brought to comics.

Wednesday, June 17 2009

Dinosaur, Sr. or, Growing Old with (Prog) Rock and Roll

By Rob Kirkpatrick

As part of his own personal “See ‘em While They’re Still Standing” 2008-2009 Tour -- tracking how his old music heroes are aging -- one PopMatters writer checks in on Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.

Tuesday, June 16 2009

Pixelated Brains and New Media: Part Two

By PopMatters Staff

Pixelated Brains continues... Today: “The Power of Story in the Digital Age” argues that the ancient art of storytelling emerges from the random bytes of factoids. “Screaming in Digital” asserts that we are permanently altering the DNA of communication.

Crayton Robey

By Christian John Wikane

The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Monday, June 15 2009

Like Tiny Bacteria Running Around: An Interview with the Dirty Projectors

By Mehan Jayasuriya

The Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth discusses Bitte Orca, his recent collaborations with Björk and David Byrne and the art of discharging firearms in Canadian shopping malls.

Friday, June 12 2009

Love Your Big Brother: What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Tells Us About 2009

By Nav Purewal

George Orwell’s seminal book can equip its readers with the intellectual apparatus necessary to see through the routine mendacity and stupefying barrage of euphemism that plagues contemporary political life.

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