Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2012-02-14T19:06:20Z Copyright (c) 2012, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2012:02:14 tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154643 2012-02-14T22:00:56Z 2012-02-14T22:00:56Z PopMatters Staff The eagerly awaited new Grimes album, Visions, releases next week. Look for our review then, but in the meantime, you can sample a few MP3s and even listen to the whole record over at... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154614 2012-02-14T21:00:14Z 2012-02-14T21:00:14Z Cynthia Fuchs If they can stop one act of violence, they might stop another. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154627 2012-02-14T20:00:07Z 2012-02-14T20:00:07Z Cynthia Fuchs "I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch." Thus Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) indicates his peculiarly American identity. And just so, Allen's... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154549 2012-02-14T19:00:01Z 2012-02-14T19:00:01Z Jose Solís Mayén Woody Allen has been one of the most influential figures in cinema for more than four decades while remaining an enigma...until now. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.153924 2012-02-14T18:00:40Z 2012-02-14T18:00:40Z Fredara Mareva She's a pianist, a singer, and a part-time punk bandleader who managed to garner interest from the likes of P. Diddy and more on her quest for true soulfulness. Sitting down with PopMatters, Brown tells us all about her journey towards getting here. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154625 2012-02-14T17:55:28Z 2012-02-14T17:55:28Z PopMatters Staff RACES' psych-influenced indie pop will be on full display when Year of the Witch releases on 27 March. In the meantime, check out today's premiere of a new remix. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/reprint/33.154153 2012-02-14T16:30:03Z 2012-02-14T16:30:03Z Gabrielle Malcolm Time was when you couldn’t move in a library in England for romance fiction: Dames Barbara and Catherine (Cartland and Cookson) dominated the shelves. Hundreds upon hundreds of copies of their titles (in large-print format very often) were loaned out by the armful. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154500 2012-02-14T16:00:54Z 2012-02-14T16:00:54Z Cynthia Fuchs The nominees for the 2012 Live Action Short Oscar alternate between expected and slightly less, all having something to do with time, its elusiveness and its ineluctable demands. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.154586 2012-02-14T15:00:00Z 2012-02-14T15:00:00Z Bill Gibron Love is in the air, as mandated by Madison Avenue, various greeting card manufacturers, and endless couples' arguments. Here are 10 ways to step outside the norm and avoid the annual festival of forced affection. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154603 2012-02-14T14:00:42Z 2012-02-14T14:00:42Z Comfort Clinton The buoyant single “What Love Looks Like”, debuting here on PopMatters, is clearly the product of a life-learned maturity. Fittingly making its premiere on Valentine’s Day, the song is a portrait of modern-day love, set to an upbeat and melodious tune ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154624 2012-02-14T13:45:00Z 2012-02-14T13:45:00Z Cynthia Fuchs The film's story of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving in intimate, evocative images. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.154555 2012-02-14T13:00:00Z 2012-02-14T13:00:00Z Mattie Brice No one is implying that the LGBT community turn into blood magicians and that the religious march out to cage and murder them, but this conflict still echoes the tensions felt in the lives of real people. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154579 2012-02-14T12:45:00Z 2012-02-14T12:45:00Z shathley Q It's a rare treat to see one writer experiment with multiple styles of storytelling. But Geoff Johns pulls it off with aplomb in "The Other Hero". ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/feature/21.154575 2012-02-14T07:00:20Z 2012-02-14T07:00:20Z Joseph Fisher What has come to be known as indie music cannot be recorded and released in places where people are absolutely independent. We need to start thinking -- really, seriously thinking -- about how something that is supposed to be inherently independent can be so dependent on so much else. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/column/19.154050 2012-02-14T07:00:15Z 2012-02-14T07:00:15Z David Masciotra Tim Hall possesses the uncanny gift to compress startling insight into short phrases with such care and concision that he could likely turn a Twitter feed into a system of philosophy. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/feature/21.154429 2012-02-14T07:00:10Z 2012-02-14T07:00:10Z Evan Sawdey The Mercury Music Prize-nominated folk artist Fionn Regan has lead a lot of living in a very short while, and while his new album has been getting raves, it's here that he reveals a strong affinity for Dylan Thomas, how his stabs at art are very much informed by his love of music, and why he might be "cruising for a bruising" in those oxblood Doc Martens ... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154542 2012-02-14T07:00:06Z 2012-02-14T07:00:06Z Zach Schonfeld 2010’s The Golden Archipelago concluded a gorgeous trilogy, but Animal Joy presents a leaner, rougher Shearwater. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154196 2012-02-14T07:00:05Z 2012-02-14T07:00:05Z Daniel Tebo Veteran psych-pop outfit takes some welcome detours on their sixth LP. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154056 2012-02-14T07:00:04Z 2012-02-14T07:00:04Z Philip Majorins Rosie Thomas’ first full-length record in four years is a risky, yet utterly sincere, retro-pop gem. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.154171 2012-02-14T07:00:04Z 2012-02-14T07:00:04Z Jeff Strowe tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.153690 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z Jedd Beaudoin tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154106 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z Elias Leight The Internet’s ability to work with a wide array of sounds in different ways is admirable, but few of their unexpected turns stick with you. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154403 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z Jonathan Kosakow While some danced right in front of the stage, others stood back and took in the show standing still, heads bobbing, pint in hand. And it seemed like that’s exactly what people who listen to El Ten Eleven want to do: listen. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154490 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z 2012-02-14T07:00:03Z David L. Ulin Shalom Auslander is willfully outrageous in Hope: A Tragedy; a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist’s heart. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153832 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z John Garratt You have to admire Dakota Suite and Quentin Sirjacq for wringing this much music out of one mood and a limited number of instruments. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154432 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z Brent McKnight Neither a suped-up action flick or traditional edge-of-your-seat thriller, Outrage weaves together a twisted web of themes of honor, respect, loyalty, betrayal, intrigue, corruption, and the costs of these and more. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.152223 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z 2012-02-14T07:00:02Z Deanne Sole tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.154213 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z David Maine tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153386 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z Carl Schonbeck Doors leading nowhere but to drek? Not quite so fast. The now digitally reissued post-Jimus Doors offer up a few choice nuggets worth hearing. Just tread carefully.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153890 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z Paula Cerni What does theology want from science? Above all, the heady feeling of mystery its own traditional texts no longer convey to a sophisticated, urban and multicultural public. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154350 2012-02-13T21:25:21Z 2012-02-13T21:25:21Z Brice Ezell A Different Kind of Truth is a return to form, but that doesn't mean it captures the brilliance of Van Halen's early recordings. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153768 2012-02-13T21:00:54Z 2012-02-13T21:00:54Z Zachary Houle When I Fall Out is the first of two thematically-linked albums from Brooklyn’s the Phantom Family Halo to be released this year, and as good as it is, it leaves you almost breathlessly wondering how the follow-up will sound like. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153884 2012-02-13T18:50:02Z 2012-02-13T18:50:02Z David Maine Percival Everett's on-target satire eviscerates everyone from Oprah to your English professor. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154286 2012-02-13T18:45:30Z 2012-02-13T18:45:30Z Jedd Beaudoin This film gives us a look back at a puzzling and fascinating moment in American history that casts a different light on '60s idealism and the death of that decade's ideals. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154556 2012-02-13T17:00:00Z 2012-02-13T17:00:00Z Jessy Krupa Starting with the most memorable and ending with the most dull (or clichéd), here’s what happened on “music’s biggest night”. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.154517 2012-02-13T15:30:10Z 2012-02-13T15:30:10Z Jacob Adams Coming after the aggressive intensity of the end of “The Sounds of Science”, “3-Minute Rule” seems slight, like the Beasties went on a mini-vacation. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154359 2012-02-13T14:30:56Z 2012-02-13T14:30:56Z Jessy Krupa Down With Valentine’s Day! A Playlist for the Rest of Us. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154463 2012-02-13T14:17:00Z 2012-02-13T14:17:00Z Cynthia Fuchs The difficulty of communication is the focus of Mourning (Soog), showed in the long shots, long takes, and confined spaces convey Kamran and Sharareh's journey during a very long night. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154562 2012-02-13T13:29:00Z 2012-02-13T13:29:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Talking Landscape exposes how "real life" only sometimes resembles efforts to describe it. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.154482 2012-02-13T13:00:02Z 2012-02-13T13:00:02Z G. Christopher Williams It's hard to avoid the allure of League of Legends. It's free-to-play, features matches that can be completed in an hour, and has a community that... well... it has a community. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/feature/21.154557 2012-02-13T11:40:30Z 2012-02-13T11:40:30Z Evan Sawdey In the wake of a tragic loss within the music industry, the Grammy Awards actually went on a surprisingly respectful, understated route... before turning into the vapid technicolor circus that has become hallmark for the very worst of Grammy broadcasts. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154559 2012-02-13T11:10:07Z 2012-02-13T11:10:07Z Michael D. Stewart Truly a mixed bag--the legendary Richard Corben demonstrates why his artwork has enthralled generations, yet fails to craft a narrative of similar elegance in this oneshot that brings the best of Robert E. Howard-pulp to mind. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154499 2012-02-13T11:00:14Z 2012-02-13T11:00:14Z Ryan Lester Zola Jesus had accomplished what they set out to do. Their set had completely transfixed those in attendance, and left little doubt the band is a live force. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/feature/21.153433 2012-02-13T07:00:20Z 2012-02-13T07:00:20Z Scott Elingburg What the Spice Girls had, at the risk of sounding errantly uncool, was magical. It helped teenaged girls define themselves and their world; jump-started teenage boys’ libidos; provided common listening ground for parents and kids; and, best of all, encouraged exuberant positivity -- something sorely lacking from our hollow, joyless decade. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/column/19.154021 2012-02-13T07:00:15Z 2012-02-13T07:00:15Z Quentin B. Huff This travelogue takes us four locales: Havana, Chicago, Sydney and Caracas. Each locale translates into distinctive interactions with hip-hop and its pillars of deejaying, emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154219 2012-02-13T07:00:04Z 2012-02-13T07:00:04Z Brice Ezell The Narrow Garden is a score to a nonexistent film. While beautiful, the album echoes of a grander context that it's lacking. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.152654 2012-02-13T07:00:04Z 2012-02-13T07:00:04Z Freeden Oeur tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.154210 2012-02-13T07:00:03Z 2012-02-13T07:00:03Z Brice Ezell tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153664 2012-02-13T07:00:03Z 2012-02-13T07:00:03Z John Garratt Jack DeJohnette has done it all. Time for him to have a little fun. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.149892 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z Deanne Sole System Krush has done the right thing and given us tracks that are long. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154244 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z Jedd Beaudoin There are incredible similarities between the analog and digital age. Unfortunately, this volume doesn't make stronger connections between the two, although it frequently wants to. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.153203 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z 2012-02-13T07:00:02Z Jedd Beaudoin tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/37.153557 2012-02-13T07:00:01Z 2012-02-13T07:00:01Z David Maine tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.152760 2012-02-13T07:00:01Z 2012-02-13T07:00:01Z Elias Leight The Screaming Tribesmen are a solid rock band. This re-issue of some already released material and first time release of some live songs, B-sides, and demos shows that they had some talent, but not a lot of hidden depth. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.153016 2012-02-13T07:00:00Z 2012-02-13T07:00:00Z Jedd Beaudoin tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.154260 2012-02-10T22:00:30Z 2012-02-10T22:00:30Z Michael Barrett In Flanders Fields: A tribute from one artist to another. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154430 2012-02-10T19:00:19Z 2012-02-10T19:00:19Z Sachyn Mital This Sunday, February 11, Glen Campbell will have Blake Shelton and the Band Perry accompanying him as he performs at the Grammy Awards where he will be presented with the Recording Academy® Lifetime Achievement Award. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/review/5.154458 2012-02-10T17:03:53Z 2012-02-10T17:03:53Z Cynthia Fuchs Now back in a small world, a world both familiar and strange, Kelli does her best to return to the way things were. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2012:pm/blogs/media-center/15.154434 2012-02-10T16:30:01Z 2012-02-10T16:30:01Z Comfort Clinton Brooklyn electro-dancers Tayisha Busay offer up a perfect new video for Valentine's Day, “Heartmeat, Lovemuscle”. ]]>