Recent Music Features

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Friday, October 23 2009

PopMatters @ 10

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters celebrates its birthday this week with a series of essays on cultural changes over our 10-year lifespan. Today: Mark Reynolds on "The Long and Short of Long-Form Journalism" and Nikki Tranter on "Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters".

Tuesday, October 20 2009

Magazine: The Correct Use of Soap

By Stephen Rylance

Magazine's The Correct Use of Soap is such a wayward, iconoclastic record, so willfully out of kilter with its own time, that its sound-world and emotional landscape remain unique in pop.

Thursday, October 15 2009

The Ever-Shifting, Hour-Glass World of Loudon Wainwright III

By Lisa Torem

Loudon Wainwright III has recently undertaken the ambitious task of writing songs that Charlie Poole might have given voice to had he not sabotaged his own career trajectory.

You Only Live Once: An Interview With Nancy Sinatra

By Steve Horowitz

"When I die, I already know what my obituary will be, 'Frank’s daughter died with her boots on!' Ha.”

Wednesday, October 14 2009

Anvil

By Evan Sawdey

Still riding high off of the success of their acclaimed documentary (and likely Oscar-nominee), the founders of Canada's famed metal trailblazers Anvil sit down to answer 20 Questions about family, weed, and a surprising love of Star Trek ...

Tuesday, October 13 2009

Space to Breathe: An Intimate Chat with Air

By Adam Conner-Simons

With the release of Air's fifth full-length album, J.B. Dunckel discusses his experience working with Nigel Godrich, his desire to score the next Bond film, and his fear that in the future, anyone can sound like Elvis.

Monday, October 12 2009

The Myth and the Machine

By Dan Johnson

The overlapping narratives of Nine Inch Nails within the control of the recording industry and Western culture moving through the Information Age combine in the band’s music as a sonic collage questioning the role of man in the machine.

Thursday, October 8 2009

Sun, Sweat and Tears: Three Days at the Austin City Limits Festival

By Tim Slowikowski

PopMatters takes a look at how a disparate array of acts fared in Austin’s playpen of mud, the blood, and the beer.

Wednesday, October 7 2009

Ramsey Lewis

By PopMatters Staff

Jazz legend Ramsey Lewis chats with PopMatters 20 Questions about feeding the spirit and living in the moment.

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

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.

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 ...

Tuesday, September 29 2009

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 ...

Friday, September 25 2009

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.

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