Friday, September 8 2006
Crüe’d and Tattüe’d
After catching nearly a dozen live dates, PopMatters' Adam Williams explores the rising ranks of a new class of Crüehead.
Thursday, September 7 2006
The Little Ones
With an EP called Sing Song, the Little Ones capture the sweet/sad, just beginning and already wistfully nostalgic vibe of perfect power pop. Frontman Ed Reyes talks about his journey from emo Sunday's Best to the hand-clapped, euphorically harmonized Little Ones... and his less-than-rockstar penchant for early rising.
Behind Impetus Press: An Interview with Jennifer Banash and Willy Blackmore
'We founded Impetus Press because [we believe] there are a lot of readers who don't necessarily want to choose exclusively between highbrow and lowbrow, who want serious literary fiction that takes popular culture as its muse.' PopMatters talks to publishing house revolutionaries Jennifer Banash and Willy Blackmore.
Wednesday, September 6 2006
Low Road to the High Glossies: An Interview with Freelance Writer Jonathan Miles
What a sweet thing that was, to see people reading your words, to hear them bitch and moan, to give them the behind-the-scenes bits and the unverifiable gossip.
The Big O: Beyond the Dark Glasses
Expanded reissues of the pivotal first three LPs recorded by Roy Orbison for Monument Records provides an insightful reminder of a true musical pioneer.
Tuesday, September 5 2006
When MySpace Became HerSpace
A formerly anonymous user finds out what it's like to be a Featured Profile.
Friday, September 1 2006
Moby Dick: American Chowder
'Reduced to more practical terms, if Jazz music is gumbo -- and it is -- the archetypal American novel, with Moby Dick as its progenitor and arguably its apotheosis, is a chowder.' Sean Murphy takes a new look at an old classic.
Thursday, August 31 2006
Bookmarks: Brief reviews of new and overlooked books
Opera has undergone numerous revisions throughout its history, indeed ever since its inception in the late Renaissance. Gallo reminds us, albeit at a breathtaking pace, that it opera hardly an unchanging art-form with an ageless essence.
V Festival 2006
Michael Lomas braves road-trip ruin in a desperate search for the sun. What he finds are ornery guards, boys with drugs up their bums, and a whole lot of bands.
V Festival 2006
Michael Lomas braves road-trip ruin in a desperate search for the sun. What he finds are ornery guards, boys with drugs up their bums, and a whole lot of bands.
Wednesday, August 30 2006
Trouser Snakes on a Tour Plane: A Long Journey with Journey
Love or loathe them, Journey's songs are etched into our collective subconscious, and deeper than most of us would like to admit.
Tuesday, August 29 2006
Unspeakable Tragedy: Race and Katrina
After Katrina, America was poised for a national conversation about race that never actually took place. What happened to squander the opportunity?
Friday, August 25 2006
ICO
While the demands of many gamers and the dreams of many game designers seem concentrated on increasing layers of complexity, critics continually praise those games that buck the trend and opt for playable simplicity. Richard Jude Goodness explains how one such game helped spark the gamer urge inside him while showing him the way a game built on simple gameplay could also be thoroughly engaging.
Thursday, August 24 2006
At the Intersection of Boob and Tube: The Bud-Sponsored Letdown of The Independent Television Festiv
Our fearless writer gets to the ever-retreating bottom of the Independent Television Festival and several free beers.
Wednesday, August 23 2006
The False Divide: Crosstalk in the Digital Wars
In the arguments over digital versus traditional film, can't we all just get along?
Tuesday, August 22 2006
Trippin’: The Cure 1983-1987
The third wave of Cure Deluxe Edition releases track Robert Smith's ascent from a murky personal and professional crisis to far-reaching commercial heights.
Monday, August 21 2006
Top Ten Tight-Arse Tricks: Saving Money on Tour by The Grates
For frequent flyers, especially musicians, the expense of travel can often be a real strain. To help their fellows, the Grates offer these ten favorite tips for saving cash on the road without risking jail time.
Friday, August 18 2006
An Overview of Infinite Proportions: An Examination of the Infinite Crisis Series
, by William Gatevackes - PopMatters Writer William Gatevackes tackles the massive DC crossover so you don't have to.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Spinning the dial and turning back the clock, Bill Gibron travels back in time to nights bathed in darkness and pierced by the crackle of static. Emerging from the speakers, voices beckon our traveler to reflect back on ghostly images of time gone by, revived and resuscitated like the radio drama format itself, and inexorably tied to the long moment-out-of-time that was .
Bookmarks: Brief reviews of new and overlooked books
Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder; The Garbageman and the Prostitute by Zack Wentz
