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Recent FeaturesTuesday, December 2 2008
“Great Music Comes from Losing Your Fear”: An Interview with KeaneAfter a year that featured their singer going in to rehab, a Gallagher brother slagging them off, and -- oh yeah -- having all their albums top the charts in Britain, Keane songsmith Tim Rice-Oxley discusses coming to terms with his past, his excitement for the future, and how the band handled that big elephant in the room ... Monday, December 1 2008
Does Video Game Criticism Need a Lester Bangs?Part of the reason Lester Bangs was a great rock critic was because he reflected the virtues and vices of his medium. Yet as a critic Bangs provided a lot of personal standards that could be easily applied to multiple mediums. 
Laura MillerCofounder of Salon.com, ravenous reader Laura Miller talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and other influences that led to The Magician's Book. Wednesday, November 26 2008
Separate But Very Equal: The (Other) Important Albums of 1968Day Two: The last quintet of choices show how the blues reclaimed its basis for a dozen hard rock hymns, argued for the importance of following one's singer/songwriter muse, and proved that not every significant sound coming out of the UK was Beatle-based. 
Revolution None: The Beatles’ ‘Wide Album’How the Beatles fell into avant garde hell with 1968’s unreleased Wide Album. Tuesday, November 25 2008
The ‘Murderous’ Art of George BaselitzFor Baselitz, the true artist is the eternal outsider. While he leads a good bourgeois family life, at his art he becomes a murderer, a man on the fringes of good society, a destroyer. Monday, November 24 2008
The Church of AxlHas a strange history of creative battles, multiple delays, and avoiding the spotlight meant that Axl Rose and Chinese Democracy are doomed to be a punchline? One fan explains why he's been keeping the faith. 
Various Artists: Love Train: The Sound of PhiladelphiaYou definitely know Motown. You probably know Stax. But it's time to get (re)acquainted with the other big player in the golden age of soul music -- Philly. Friday, November 21 2008
Birthday: The Beatles’ White Album 40th AnniversarySide Four: The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end. 
Layers of Composition: An Interview with Andy MilneYou might consider him a jazz artist, but Milne continues to incorporate new forms into his work, teaching himself when he isn't teaching students. Wednesday, November 19 2008
Prisoners Are the Best Audience: The Challenge of ‘At Folsom Prison’Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison wasn't a pivotal live album or country album or Cash album -- it was a piece of history unto itself, flaws and all. Monday, November 17 2008
Hamburg: Germany’s Port of Rock ‘n’ RollPopMatters shoulders its backpacks and treks to Hamburg to check out Germany's pop music capital, to partake of four days of Kunst und Kultur, historical wanderings, and indulge in a bit of Gemütlichkeit. 
Roy HarperRoy Harper is a consummate musician's musician, straight out of the British folk scene. He chats with PopMatters 20 Questions, sometimes with tear in eye, sometimes with tongue in cheek, about film, literature, and music. Friday, November 14 2008
Voodoo Music Experience FestivalThe Voodoo Experience brings national acts to New Orleans and highlights the city’s uniquely diverse music scene. Such is the ethos of the city: Anything goes, as long as there’s dancing. Thursday, November 13 2008
Where Music is Written, or Dapper LeChampagne’s Unraveling at Austin City LimitsDapper was going to disintegrate today. He would see her during Band of Horses. She was wearing white. Her eyes were round and soft when they met his. 
Unchartered Territory: The Making of an Icon in The James Stewart Western CollectionAs he headed westward in his films, a new, darker Jimmy Stewart helped redefine a genre. Wednesday, November 12 2008
The Signal and the Violence of American Identity PoliticsThe oppressor in The Signal is an underlying, parental figure in absentia. It is industrial civilization as pathology, inextricably and somehow willfully divorced from reality. Tuesday, November 11 2008
“To Be Happy in Your Own Life is All You Can Do”: An Interview with Wayne CoyneIt laboured for years in production, all while its lead actor was at the height of his drug addiction and the press grew wary of its many delays. Finally, the Flaming Lips' full-length film Christmas on Mars is seeing the light of day, and Wayne Coyne couldn't be happier to talk about it. Monday, November 10 2008
Hung Up: The State of Rock Poster ArtWith major labels fading and promotional budgets cut to the bone, can rock-concert poster art survive? Can it even thrive? 
StereophonicsOne of Apple's inventions and Salvador Dali's creations hold some envy for members of Stereophonics. The band's bassist and drummer talk with 20 Questions about these and other inspirations. |
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