Recent Music Features

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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.

Friday, September 18 2009

No Sympathy for the Devil

By Jeff Walzer

Over time, "Sympathy for the Devil" has been treated with huge fanfare and has become the common denominator fan favorite, but in actuality "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" gets to the core of what the Rolling Stones were.

Wednesday, September 16 2009

Happiness Is a Warm Band: An Interview with Emily Haines of Metric

By Drew Fortune

Haines fled to South America, Metric scrapped their new songs, and everyone realized their well-considered Fantasies.

Tuesday, September 15 2009

In Circles: Sunny Day Real Estate Reconsidered

By Mehan Jayasuriya

In anticipation of a reunion tour, the two albums produced by the original Sunny Day Real Estate lineup get remastered and repackaged with extra tracks and expanded liner notes. They are ripe for revisiting.

Monday, September 14 2009

Music Scrobbling as a Panopticism of Taste

By Calum Marsh

Among social networking sites, it's only Last.fm, only scrobbling -- which, once activated, operates entirely on its own, as an unconscious background function -- that channels the essence of Foucault's social panopticism.

Thursday, September 10 2009

The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses: 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

By Evan Sawdey

Imagine if you will: an album re-release that actually gets everything right, making an already-classic album sound even better than before, deepening our understanding as to what made it so iconic.

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Terence Blanchard

By PopMatters Staff

The cerebral, soulful, three-time Grammy award winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard tells us how our turbulent, dynamic world inspires his beautiful music.

Thursday, September 3 2009

Great City, a Great City’s Music: The Vancouver International Jazz Festival

By Will Layman

Our jazz critic Will Layman spent a full week soaking up the music -- and the city -- offered by what may be North America's finest jazz festival.

Wednesday, September 2 2009

Charlie Louvin

By PopMatters Staff

Charlie Louvin, Country Music Hall of Fame legend and half of the immortal country duo The Louvin Brothers, tells PopMatters 20 Questions about the best thing he ever got – for only $3.

Who Are You: Tom Waits and ‘Lowside of the Road’ by Barney Hoskyns

By Robert Loss

Waits is a deconstructionist vaudevillian with a heart who rails against cynicism; a furious bluesman blaring unabashedly about the soul-- his words and music stretch into a bizarre land, where the light is slanted, eerie.

Tuesday, September 1 2009

Wide-Eyed Wonder: An Interview with Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance

By Ron Hart

Six Organs of Admittance/Comets on Fire frontman Ben Chasny has a lot on his mind. Sitting down with PopMatters, he lets it all out, spilling a couple unique secrets in the process ...

Thursday, August 27 2009

Robert Glasper Loves the Groove

By Thomas Hauner

On the eve of his third Blue Note release, Double Booked, jazz pianist Robert Glasper discusses his stylistic bifurcation, MC skills, and -- inevitably -- Michael Jackson's legacy.

Wednesday, August 26 2009

Wayne Hancock

By PopMatters Staff

The master of juke joint swing performs like a visiting country doctor, or maybe a preacher, ministering to the rural folks in three-hour, boogie healing woogie doses. Here a little shot is given to us...

Tuesday, August 25 2009

Let’s Sing / Think About the Status Quo, But the Point Is to Change It

By Jayson Harsin

Against Me! protests and documents. But they also ask questions, even about the usefulness of protest or of asking questions about the usefulness of protest.

Mobiles Chirping, Plates Spinning, Sirens Singing:  Radiohead’s 21st Century Digital Noise

By Thomas Britt

In the years directly following the rapturous reception of OK Computer, Radiohead wearied from the repetitive touring cycle, interviews and set lists. What to do at a misanthropic low? Dr. Manhattan takes off for Mars, and Radiohead records Kid A.

Friday, August 21 2009

Casablanca Records: Play It Again

By Christian John Wikane

Thirty-five years ago, KISS and Parliament debuted on Casablanca, a label that influenced generations of music listeners and defined an era in popular music. Join PopMatters and more than 50 artists and executives for our exclusive, five-part oral history of Casablanca.

Thursday, August 20 2009

FM Supreme [Chicago, IL]

By Chris Catania

FM Supreme may be young, but she's well on her way toward creating awareness and building momentum for social and personal action using hip-hop, spoken word, and youth activism.

Wednesday, August 19 2009

Nosaj Thing [Los Angeles]

By Dominic Umile

Nosaj Thing's music is mysterious and provocative, bringing a rumbling intensity and highly individual style to both remixes and his own work.

Sunday, August 16 2009

Three Days, Forty Years, Six Discs

By Justin Cober-Lake

It's the enticing performances of the smaller acts -- and not the explosions of the big ones -- that made Woodstock such a singular event.

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