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Wednesday, November 18 2009

The Gospel According to Butch: Part 2—The Performer

By Evan Sawdey

The ever-prolific producer/songwriter Butch Walker notes how live shows lack a genuine mystique these days, his secret for surviving a tour, and why he'll probably never see Third Eye Blind in concert again ...

Tuesday, November 17 2009

Alison Brie and Donald Glover of ‘Community’

By PopMatters Staff

Alison Brie, who plays Trudy on Mad Men and Donald Glover, who wrote for 30 Rock before joining the Community cast, indulge in a friendly, teasing, tête à tête of sorts, as they consider PopMatters 20 Questions.

Friday, November 13 2009

We Few, We Happy Few, We Bandaged Brothers: Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody and the Quest for Self

By Kevin M. Brettauer

A touching, heartfelt meditation on identity and isolation in a small town, Jeff Lemire is able to redress an H.G. Wells classic and make it as timely and disturbing as ever.

Wednesday, November 11 2009

The Gospel According to Butch: Part 1—The Producer

By Evan Sawdey

Butch Walker talks with PopMatters about the music industry, the problems that young bands frequently succumb to in the studio, and why it's more important to write songs than design T-shirts.

Tuesday, November 10 2009

A Working Class Family: Ed and Edie Falco

By Mike Garrett

PopMatters talks with Ed Falco and his niece, actor Edie Falco, about their life in the arts and Ed's gritty new novel, Saint John of the Five Boroughs.

Monday, November 9 2009

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

By Diane Leach

Ayn Rand set out to remake reality as if it were an ill-fitting dress: by sheer will, she tried to fashion a Balenciaga gown from a housedress.

Friday, November 6 2009

Fast Food TV

By Ian Chant

The Next Iron Chef is not a show about cooking. It is a show about people freaking out; cooking just happens to be what they’re doing while they’re freaking out.

Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir

By Alistair Dickinson

These five films from the golden-era of the legendary Nikkatsu studio shows off the never-ending ways Japanese filmmakers were able to combine the best elements of pulp and epic Japanese storytelling.

Thursday, November 5 2009

Nirvana: Bleach

By AJ Ramirez

Starting with Nevermind, Kurt Cobain intentionally simplified his compositions in order to emphasize their pop components. Less song-focused than later Nirvana works, Bleach acts as an interesting showcase of the band’s musical chops.

Wednesday, November 4 2009

Leaving Las Vegas and Leaving for Good

By Aaron Knier

Using Ben in Leaving Las Vegas as a gauge to measure myself against, my life wasn’t anywhere close to as bad as it could be, but people who thought they had better control of their drinking than me still fuck their lives right up, so....

Nicholson Baker’s Enthusiasms and Passionate Obsessions

By Christopher Guerin

Nicholson Baker writes from his enthusiasms, which are many and ever changing. Among other things, his books have focused on sex, John Updike, public libraries, and pacifism and World War II. His latest, The Anthologist, is his love letter to poetry.

Tuesday, November 3 2009

Celebrating the Death of the Dark Knight – and His Rebirth

By C.E. McAuley

With the recent passing of Bruce Wayne, can the Batman character escape the tragedy of Bruce Wayne's life that originally birthed it?

Get Holy: An Interview With John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

By Jer Fairall

Upon the release of the Mountain Goats' latest album, the band's founder and songwriter talks about the literary influences on his prolific output and the biblical theme of his latest opus.

Monday, November 2 2009

10 Rules on How to Sink or Swim at CMJ

By PopMatters Staff

Though several bands demanded double-takes, and many impressed, there were no obvious standouts at this year's CMJ. Instead, our writers found bands that exemplified standards for success, and failure, putting together ten rules on how to sink or swim at CMJ.

How Far Is Too Far?: Navigating the World of Young Adult Fiction

By Beth Greaves

In the world of "edgy" young adult fiction, there's a tendency to either bury real world consequences, or exploit the darker material for all it's worth. But where does that leave the young readers grappling with the content?

Sunday, November 1 2009

Old Canes

By Evan Sawdey

Stealing Kurt Vonnegut books? Getting choked up during M*A*S*H? Appleseed Cast frontman Chris Crisci talks about all of these things and more as his folk-affected side-project releases their second album.

Friday, October 30 2009

Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason

By Stephen Rylance

Despite the efforts of some to dismiss it as a prank, Antichrist is a serious film and its disturbing extremes speak of broad and deeply felt moral, social, and ultimately, political anxieties.

Thursday, October 29 2009

Syfy ‘Ghost Hunters’: Living Normally Within Paranormal Pop Culture

By Aaron Sagers

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of Ghost Hunters have transcended the paranormal entertainment niche, become lasting pop-culture mainstays, and are busiest men in the ghost business.

Wonder: The Photos of Stephanie Chernikowski

By Spencer Tricker

Chernikowski's 35mm black-and-white stills (a sampling of which is included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Looking at Music: Side 2 exhibit this fall) exude more than just an appreciation for the magnetic personalities they capture, but also a sense of discovery.

Wednesday, October 28 2009

20 Questions: Fuck Buttons

By Evan Sawdey

Stealing penguins! A secret connection with Garfield! Dropping fruit pastille in the primordial ooze! Experimental UK noise duo Fuck Buttons discuss this and more.

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