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Monday, October 26 2009

Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

By Chris Milam

Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff's head and said, "This song will change your life." The resulting sound was not only that of carefully composed dullness, but of a million wealthy white kids investing in dull acoustic music to soundtrack their own romantic melodrama.

Sunday, October 25 2009

The 47th Annual New York Film Festival

By Michael Buening

There were plenty of films in the New York Film Festival that captured similar redemptive moments and there is nothing esoteric, depressing or arduous about that.

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".

Thursday, October 22 2009

“They’re All My Children”: An Interview with Ennio Morricone

By Drew Fortune

The legendary Italian maestro is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and at 81 years old is still going strong.

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.

Monday, October 19 2009

One of Those Faces You Can’t Help Believing: Anthony Perkins in Psycho

By Aaron Knier

The "shower scene" in Hitchcock's Psycho has become woven into our pop cultural backdrop, but it's the “dinner scene” that shines a narrow light on the character of Norman Bates.

Sunday, October 18 2009

Patricia Cornwell

By PopMatters Staff

20 Questions caught up with award-winning, international best-selling author Patricia Cornwell in a rare moment when her feet were on the ground.

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 ...

Await Your Reply: Dan Chaon Talks About Self-invention

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

Lost, indie music and Final Destination inspired Dan Chaon's latest novel, Await Your Reply -- all deal with issues of self-invention and how we conceptualize the self, he tells PopMatters.

Tuesday, October 13 2009

Beautiful and Unique Snowflakes: Warren Ellis’ ‘Planetary’

By Kevin M. Brettauer

Warren Ellis, once thought of by many as comics’ resident Orson Welles, an angry, embittered artist, is actually the industry’s Kurt Vonnegut, sent here to make us feel as if "everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt".

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.

Sunday, October 11 2009

Aziz Ansari

By PopMatters Staff

Named Entertainment Weekly’s top 12 future stars of comedy, Aziz Ansari has a voracious appetite for performing, eating, and… just about anything else that is subject to an appetite.

Friday, October 9 2009

“Paranormal Activity” and the Pinocchio Complex

By Stephen Graham Jones

Author and horror enthusiast Stephen Graham Jones explains how in mixing a range of sub-genre conventions into one film, Paranormal Activity could be this generation's Exorcist.

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.

Tim and Eric Awesome Show ... Interesting Job

By Thomas Britt

Through absurd humour, this show relentlessly disparages the wholesale futility of masculine posturing, useless products, and mindless modern entertainment.

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.

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