Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2010-02-09T20:32:34Z Copyright (c) 2010, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2010:02:09 tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.120559 2010-02-09T20:05:55Z 2010-02-09T20:05:55Z Bill Gibron In less than three days we will see what, if anything, new Oscar winning actor Benicio del Toro and replacement director Joe Johnston have to offer the whole 'man into beast' fright film formula.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120555 2010-02-09T19:30:23Z 2010-02-09T19:30:23Z PopMatters Staff Heartland, saying it "has a fine polish that feels as expansive as it is ornate." Pallett recently stopped by Q TV and here is his... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.120550 2010-02-09T18:00:55Z 2010-02-09T18:00:55Z Paul Hiebert tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120553 2010-02-09T18:00:16Z 2010-02-09T18:00:16Z PopMatters Staff Basement Jaxx have remixed '80s new wave classic from those old New Romantics, ABC. Man, this one takes me back... Actually, the album that song originally comes from (The Lexicon of Love) is... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.120323 2010-02-09T17:30:28Z 2010-02-09T17:30:28Z Sean McCarthy Just like it took years to realize what an incredible year 1999 was to cinema, expect the "What was the best album of the last decade?" debate to go on for years. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/graphically-speaking/40.120411 2010-02-09T17:13:28Z 2010-02-09T17:13:28Z Randy Romig Earth X’s storyline, then take a closer look at the artwork of both the covers and interiors. However, on... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120540 2010-02-09T17:00:47Z 2010-02-09T17:00:47Z PopMatters Staff tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120520 2010-02-09T16:00:10Z 2010-02-09T16:00:10Z Matt Moeller Indie film upstarts the Duplass brothers have a new movie being released to US theaters on July 9th. These recent arrivals to the scene are most notable for their writing/directing/producing work in... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120537 2010-02-09T15:00:19Z 2010-02-09T15:00:19Z PopMatters Staff Go, due out in April on the uber-trendy XL label, and a long list of... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.120312 2010-02-09T14:00:19Z 2010-02-09T14:00:19Z Michael Landweber American Idol has never been accused of being subtle, particularly during the audition weeks. But the number of sob stories being foisted on viewers this season has gotten out of hand. And, yes, I’ve made a list. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120545 2010-02-09T13:05:12Z 2010-02-09T13:05:12Z Cynthia Fuchs Preternaturally patient with all the needy, flustered, and demanding adults around her, Priscilla Diaz is also childish (righteously) and astute (luckily). ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.119684 2010-02-09T12:30:37Z 2010-02-09T12:30:37Z Allison Taich Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh (Universal Motown) Releasing: 30 March It has been two years since singer/songwriter/producer Erykah Badu's last release, New Amerykah Part 1:... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.120420 2010-02-09T11:30:00Z 2010-02-09T11:30:00Z L.B. Jeffries A game where conformity should probably not be considered a positive for once. Mild Spoilers in the next to last paragraph. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120532 2010-02-09T11:25:34Z 2010-02-09T11:25:34Z Jonas Jacobs Sea of Love that I picked up from the library. The title intrigued me, and it was a VHS. My DVD player is broken, so I've been renting VHS... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120499 2010-02-09T11:00:14Z 2010-02-09T11:00:14Z Greg M. Schwartz After the show, the band shakes hands, bumps fists and exchanges high-fives with numerous fans, demonstrating once again that Anti-Flag is most definitely a band for and of the people. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.120362 2010-02-09T10:12:47Z 2010-02-09T10:12:47Z Meghan Lewit Call this episode a hooker with a heart of gold. Project Runway oh-so-cleverly spent an entire show shilling for Campbell’s Soup, and managed to look noble in the process. The challenge... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/column/19.120434 2010-02-09T07:00:47Z 2010-02-09T07:00:47Z Timothy Gabriele Deemed music that is “not real”, electronic sounds have come to occupy and permeate spaces focused on alterity, from the fringes of academia to the disposal heap of exotica. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119814 2010-02-09T07:00:42Z 2010-02-09T07:00:42Z Tara Murtha Black is the New White go so wrong? ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119708 2010-02-09T07:00:38Z 2010-02-09T07:00:38Z Kirby Fields The bad news is that the Weinsteins may have been right about trimming some of the fat; the good news is that even a flawed Tarantino is better than a perfect most anyone else. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/feature/21.119632 2010-02-09T07:00:07Z 2010-02-09T07:00:07Z Ian Chant “You’ve created a fetish around watching the commercials, and not going to the kitchen or the bathroom during the commercials. That’s a pretty amazing thing to have done,” says Turow. But is the phenomenon sustainable? ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119944 2010-02-09T07:00:05Z 2010-02-09T07:00:05Z Ian Mathers Opening their hearts and streamlining their sound at the same time, Hot Chip make their most unabashed and colourful record, and maybe their best. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120204 2010-02-09T07:00:04Z 2010-02-09T07:00:04Z Zachary Houle The Go Find somehow sounds familiar -- one more Europop band mining a bedroom indie pop sensibility -- and yet wholly distinct in a simultaneous space. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119995 2010-02-09T07:00:03Z 2010-02-09T07:00:03Z Adrien Begrand The sludge greats' notorious debut album finally gets a proper release after nearly 17 years. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119931 2010-02-09T07:00:02Z 2010-02-09T07:00:02Z Timothy Gabriele The dyschronia one experiences listening to Oneohtrix Point Never is similar, but not completely reverent, to the hypnagogic/glo-fi/chillwave axis in that it is music that is strangely familiar and familiarly strange. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120129 2010-02-09T07:00:01Z 2010-02-09T07:00:01Z David Amidon The mastermind behind Alicia Keys' "Teenage Love Affair" and John Legend's "P.D.A." steps out form behind the curtain of songwriting and his Plant Life alias to prepare audiences for his upcoming album. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.118055 2010-02-09T07:00:00Z 2010-02-09T07:00:00Z Alan Brown tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119742 2010-02-09T07:00:00Z 2010-02-09T07:00:00Z Kevin M. Brettauer Scorsese-inspired and Petraeus-infused, Fabian Nicieza and Ramon Bachs' new Azrael is an incendiary powder keg, commenting one everything from the War on Terror to its title character's relevance to the very purpose of faith. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119664 2010-02-09T06:59:54Z 2010-02-09T06:59:54Z Christel Loar Drop Dead Rock is a 1995 cult comedy starring Adam Ant and Debbie Harry, in which a washed up punk rocker is held for ransom by a bumbling band of misfit musicians. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/37.119928 2010-02-09T06:59:51Z 2010-02-09T06:59:51Z Joe Tacopino Power Move, but Singles is a tasty morsel of a feisty young talent. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119942 2010-02-09T06:59:40Z 2010-02-09T06:59:40Z Dan Cryer The Unnamed is written with uncommon grace. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/37.120121 2010-02-09T06:58:07Z 2010-02-09T06:58:07Z Mike Schiller tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119641 2010-02-09T06:58:05Z 2010-02-09T06:58:05Z Stuart Henderson This is a film much more interested (as perhaps we should be) in the music that flowed out of this strange man than anything else. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/37.120151 2010-02-09T06:57:50Z 2010-02-09T06:57:50Z Joshua Kloke tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/reprint/33.120348 2010-02-08T21:30:58Z 2010-02-08T21:30:58Z Michael Buening tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/graphically-speaking/40.120150 2010-02-08T18:17:12Z 2010-02-08T18:17:12Z Kevin M. Brettauer "Companion Tommy, sound your horn!" A story for the ages and, of course, our age, The Unwritten's goals are lofty indeed, and its creators do not shy from them, lest their work lose validity. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120350 2010-02-08T18:00:36Z 2010-02-08T18:00:36Z Donal Mosher Fountain is the first full-length solo recording by one of the founding members of San Francisco’s Tarentel and the Drift. For those familiar with these... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/calls-for-papers/48.120488 2010-02-08T17:22:01Z 2010-02-08T17:22:01Z PopMatters Staff tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120376 2010-02-08T16:30:28Z 2010-02-08T16:30:28Z Jonas Jacobs The Best of the Girl Groups Vol.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.120470 2010-02-08T15:05:27Z 2010-02-08T15:05:27Z Bill Gibron Hollywood should be ashamed. One of the best Super Bowl's in the 44 year history of the game and Tinseltown could barely muster an interesting set of ads. Granted, at $2.6 million of 30 seconds, the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.120474 2010-02-08T15:00:33Z 2010-02-08T15:00:33Z Jessy Krupa tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120460 2010-02-08T15:00:12Z 2010-02-08T15:00:12Z Matt Moeller A game that has played gamers for the last couple of years with pushed back release dates and pant wetting anticipation is finally being released. The long-awaited return to Rapture is here on... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.120461 2010-02-08T14:23:34Z 2010-02-08T14:23:34Z Dave MacIntyre Words and Pictures by Dave MacIntyre ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.120491 2010-02-08T13:55:03Z 2010-02-08T13:55:03Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120446 2010-02-08T13:35:34Z 2010-02-08T13:35:34Z Lesley Smith Patty’s actions, rather like those of Jack Bauer in 24, dramatize the fundamental contradiction at the heart of any democratic society. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120471 2010-02-08T13:30:32Z 2010-02-08T13:30:32Z Cynthia Fuchs A couple of interviews in The Black List: Volume Three make strong and important points about the ways race inflects daily life in America. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/media-center/15.120465 2010-02-08T12:50:06Z 2010-02-08T12:50:06Z Jessy Krupa tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.120467 2010-02-08T11:45:19Z 2010-02-08T11:45:19Z tjmHolden tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.120469 2010-02-08T11:21:22Z 2010-02-08T11:21:22Z Cynthia Fuchs The Cove comes to the truth by means illegal and exciting, elaborately faked and cunningly inventive. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.120462 2010-02-08T11:15:24Z 2010-02-08T11:15:24Z PC Muñoz tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119750 2010-02-08T07:00:52Z 2010-02-08T07:00:52Z Catherine Ramsdell tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119570 2010-02-08T07:00:31Z 2010-02-08T07:00:31Z Evan Sawdey As David Tennant's tenure as the Tenth Doctor comes to a close, we can't help but wish that his last adventure was a bit more substantial than this. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/column/19.119964 2010-02-08T07:00:26Z 2010-02-08T07:00:26Z Steve Leftridge At 77, Willie's hair is now down to his tailbone, and you can see his trademark red locks fade to gray about midway up his back -- it's like examining the rings of a tree. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/feature/21.119344 2010-02-08T07:00:07Z 2010-02-08T07:00:07Z Thomas Britt PopMatters sits down with Yoko Ono to discuss her most recent artistic output along with the big ideas of life, death, and the Beatles. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/feature/21.117785 2010-02-08T07:00:06Z 2010-02-08T07:00:06Z Ian Chant PopMatters talks with Superfreakonomics coauthor Stephen J. Dubner about collaboration, geoengineering and why some economists don't like his books. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.119278 2010-02-08T07:00:05Z 2010-02-08T07:00:05Z John Bergstrom The Bristol downtempo legends return. Still attacking. Only now, less massive. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2010:pm/review/5.118297 2010-02-08T07:00:04Z 2010-02-08T07:00:04Z Ben Schumer Vancouver dance-punk troupe parties like its 2002. ]]>