Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2008-07-25T00:18:07Z Copyright (c) 2008, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2008:07:24 tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.61324 2008-07-24T13:30:00Z 2008-07-24T13:30:00Z Mike Schiller tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61319 2008-07-24T10:01:40Z 2008-07-24T10:01:40Z David Pullar The Book Group, but we did meet every month or two to discuss a book we’d all planned to read. The key difference with... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61312 2008-07-24T10:00:00Z 2008-07-24T10:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Disfigured's focus on the friendship between Lydia (Deidra Edwards) and Darcy (Staci Lawrence) reveals they are not your average movie opposites who attract. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60822 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z Chris Baynes ¡Forward, Russia! should be commended for asking questions of themselves when they could have sat pretty and cemented their position as dance-punk heroes. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61129 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z William Gatevackes Krutcher and the world where everyone can fly returns; more of the same, and that's both a good and a bad thing. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61201 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z Chris Conaton The second annual edition of Less Than Jake's Shout it Loud summer tour recently rolled through the Detroit area, bringing Goldfinger, Big D and the Kids Table, and Suburban Legends along for the ride. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.58540 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z 2008-07-24T07:00:01Z Karen Shimizu The famed font aspires to eerie emptiness of meaning. Now, has it persuaded us to do the same? ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60628 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Heather West A child's murder becomes symbolic of phenomenon specific to the era: the darkness in the bosom of the Victorian family and the thrills and dangers of a new art -- detection. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60783 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z John Bergstrom Don't let that title fool you. Ben Watt knows exactly what he's doing with his très cool deep house label, as evidenced by this three-disc set. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60814 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Aarik Danielsen Not only is Arizona Motel an album full of beauty and a postscript worthy of the man who helped create it, it is one of the best country albums of the year. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60825 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Chris Conaton A shamelessly, nay proudly, derivative band that worships at the altar of 60's rock and psychedelia. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60908 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Claudrena N. Harold Exploring the many shades of blue, Ndidi Onukwulu's Contradictor sparkles with wicked humor, intelligence, and an uncompromising emotional depth. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60994 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Colin McGuire Mayer’s career-spanning evening leaves us all to wonder what’s next. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61019 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Matt Mazur Mann scatters fragments of Shakespeare’s King Lear into the mix along with the familial clinches of Eugene O’Neill’s dour compositions ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/column/19.61205 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Andrew Gilstrap Maybe it's because current methods of listening aren't cutting it that I've started buying more vinyl. Not because it sounds better or evokes nostalgia, but because listening to vinyl is a more structured and formal experience. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.61124 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z 2008-07-24T07:00:00Z Christel Loar The Hoosiers, The Black Keys and Manu Chao... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60580 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z Erik Hinton Philosophy has often foregone its search for truth in favor of trumpeting a perceived tectonic ontological crisis: “Hark! The Internet, reality TV, Disney World, America! The sky is falling!” ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61021 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z Tiffany White When it comes to depicting angst-ridden anti-heros like Theo, this film takes an approach most don't have the courage to try. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61144 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z Matthew Fiander The full-band numbers here are so much better than the slow more lonesome work, one wonders why Faun Fables don't just commit to their fuller sound. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.60804 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z 2008-07-24T06:59:00Z Vijith Assar and Mehan Jayasuriya When PopMatters sent two writers to cover Radiohead’s show in Virginia, we didn’t expect such divergent results. Mentally exhausting in a myriad of different ways, they report from the battle lines via text messages. Some things, apparently, shouldn’t be saved for a rainy day. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61148 2008-07-24T06:58:01Z 2008-07-24T06:58:01Z Evan Sawdey Tickle Me Pink's tired clichés ultimately knock down any hope of the band creating any sort of identity out of the usual Warped Tour mindset. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60942 2008-07-24T06:57:00Z 2008-07-24T06:57:00Z Filmore Mescalito Holmes Let us celebrate the newest Warp signing with the adding of abstract electronics and Australian post-rock. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.59593 2008-07-24T06:56:00Z 2008-07-24T06:56:00Z Andrew Gilstrap Amelia combines Americana with touches of some vague European sensibility. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.59848 2008-07-24T06:55:00Z 2008-07-24T06:55:00Z Jason MacNeil Canadian singer-songwriter sound like a somewhat more polished Paul Westerberg. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.61300 2008-07-24T06:45:08Z 2008-07-24T06:45:08Z Bill Gibron How do you like your comedy - serious (meaning witty without being wanton) or scatological (bring on the feces and the farts!)? Do you prefer your laughter driven by sparkling dialogue, insightful... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.61270 2008-07-23T21:23:58Z 2008-07-23T21:23:58Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/media-center/15.61299 2008-07-23T20:45:16Z 2008-07-23T20:45:16Z PopMatters Staff Theresa Andersson Na Na Na (Empty Heart) [MP3]       Birds Fly Away [MP3]       Na Na Na (Empty Heart) [Video] Lykke Li I'm Good... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61284 2008-07-23T12:34:40Z 2008-07-23T12:34:40Z Nikki Tranter New York Times: Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book “Supernature” and introduced the “hundredth monkey”... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61278 2008-07-23T10:20:57Z 2008-07-23T10:20:57Z Cynthia Fuchs Boy A, based on Jonathan Trigell’s novel, lays out an intricate map of how social expectations and limits shape individual horizons. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60617 2008-07-23T07:00:01Z 2008-07-23T07:00:01Z Deanne Sole Listening to the Rough Guide to Arabic Café, I realised that this is not the same as the music you would expect to hear if you were sitting in a Western coffee shop. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60900 2008-07-23T07:00:01Z 2008-07-23T07:00:01Z Dan Raper PAS/CAL, an unlikely experimental pop group from Detroit, has made a pretty astounding debut album ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.59751 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Filmore Mescalito Holmes The industry boned another one when it forced Bubble Puppy to become Demian to become a footnote in classic Texas hard rock. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60181 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Jenny Carlson Close moonlighted as a fire-eating carnival performer, an LSD test subject for the US military, a film cameo artist and a producer of psychedelic light shows. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60782 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Spencer Tricker Avant-industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten reprogram with an album of experimental miniatures. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60799 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z James Greene, Jr. Veteran SoCal punks supplement their last release with acoustic EP, concert DVD, and some nifty posters. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60980 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Maura Walz Reckless Kelly might not yet be reckless enough to knock down the walls of their country-rock roadhouse, but their raw devotion to the ruffian lifestyle makes for music that’s satisfyingly rough around the edges. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60989 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Jesse Hassenger In a few devastating gestures, Heathers makes Sex and Death 101 look like a wannabe -- a script in search of a director and a star to complete the clique. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61150 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Chad Berndtson For all the doom and gloom and visions of burning worlds and people done wrong and other snatches of terror, the Black Angels revel in their own interplay and are in love with how corrosive noise can be controlled (if never crisply shaped) to maximize dramatic effect ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/column/19.61238 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Michael Abernethy Not only does the GLBT community view itself as one movement, society has mandated that the groups are linked -- if not intentionally, then through selective exclusion. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.58503 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z 2008-07-23T07:00:00Z Rev. Doug Gebhard Whether intentionally spiritual or not, popular culture and its products serve many of the same drives of religion: making meaning and forging the bonds of community. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60577 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z Will Layman Blue Gene -- a mullet-sporting, tattoo-covered, monster truck-loving, "Love It Or Leave It" spouting man of the people -- is selling off his childhood action figures at a flea market at the age of 27. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60878 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z Matthew Fiander Jaguar Love EP is terribly brief, and imperfect, but two good songs out of three ain't bad. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60991 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z 2008-07-23T06:59:00Z Amaya Rivera An acid-tongued humor, playing towards a number of stuffy British stereotypes. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61074 2008-07-23T06:58:00Z 2008-07-23T06:58:00Z Aarik Danielsen The Classic Crime is not your older brother's emo band. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60840 2008-07-23T06:57:00Z 2008-07-23T06:57:00Z Filmore Mescalito Holmes Dave Huismans makes it easy to see why dubstep is all the rage in '08 with his debut full-length. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60548 2008-07-23T06:56:00Z 2008-07-23T06:56:00Z Dan MacIntosh The Smithereens are a great power-pop bar band. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.59852 2008-07-23T06:55:00Z 2008-07-23T06:55:00Z Jason MacNeil Sacramento couple takes you on a ride that is peaceful, thoughtful and above all brimming with quality. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.61239 2008-07-23T06:45:28Z 2008-07-23T06:45:28Z Bill Gibron It’s time to get out the black wreaths and the ceremonial armbands, especially if, like this critic, you grew up on a steady diet of Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, and their exemplary movie review... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61112 2008-07-23T06:00:00Z 2008-07-23T06:00:00Z Jason Cook Opoona fails as a character because he's a weird little bulbous alien with a pom-pom on his head named Opoona. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.61274 2008-07-23T06:00:00Z 2008-07-23T06:00:00Z Mike Schiller Guitar Hero franchise who are also inclined to visit this here site have already seen Ryan Smith's review of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, which as far as my experience... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61241 2008-07-23T01:19:06Z 2008-07-23T01:19:06Z tjmHolden tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.61265 2008-07-22T20:54:19Z 2008-07-22T20:54:19Z Terry Sawyer tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/crazed-by-the-music/10.61240 2008-07-22T16:51:50Z 2008-07-22T16:51:50Z Jason Gross tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.61236 2008-07-22T14:42:28Z 2008-07-22T14:42:28Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.61234 2008-07-22T14:29:47Z 2008-07-22T14:29:47Z Andrew Gilstrap tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.61167 2008-07-22T11:00:00Z 2008-07-22T11:00:00Z L.B. Jeffries tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60982 2008-07-22T07:00:01Z 2008-07-22T07:00:01Z Zeth Lundy Tony Palmer's compelling yet frustrating 15-hour television series on the history of popular music, originally broadcast in the 1970s, finally sees a DVD release. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60046 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Matthew Fiander This is outside music, music to be set on a porch and blasted into the expanse of land around it, music that cannot be contained. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60158 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Timothy Gabriele Inevitably, Electroma will eternally be defined in music and film history by what it lacks. Calling the film one-dimensional would be understandable, but it would be simplifying a complex moebius strip whose surface, if lethargic, at least engages the screen for 70 minutes. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60164 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Spencer Tricker A career retrospective anthology and 1982 live concert convince us that "diva" can most definitely be one of the good four-letter words. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60384 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Nils Jacobson High drama, stoked by tension and channeled through unpredictable shifts in course, is ultimately what makes this music most compelling. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60527 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Chris Conaton Another band out of Austin, this one more country than most, The Band of Heathens offer a solid studio debut. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60574 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Matthew Fiander Little details disturb the normality of these stories: chairs have three legs; a homeless man becomes guardian over an entire forest. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61082 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z D.M. Edwards Folk singer Karen Dalton had a voice closer to Charley Patton than Sandy Denny, a unique voice that most people probably either love or hate. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61132 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Alice Singleton There’s a hole in the soul of America, and Tony Award winner (August: Osage County) Tracy Letts has written the allegory reflecting the possibly permanent national “skin condition." His comedy-drama, Superior Donuts, made its world premier at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61213 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs The possibility of panicky flight hangs over Ido Haar's affecting documentary, 9 Star Hotel. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61222 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Airing as part of PBS' Wide Angle, The Burning Season examines the complex relationship among Indonesian farmers, global corporate entities, and earth's future. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/column/19.61196 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Bill Reagan Chefs quickly manage a range of dishes, their staff swiftly execute, and the result must be excellent. Let's put McCain and Obama in aprons to see how they might really work. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.60857 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z 2008-07-22T07:00:00Z Erin Lyndal Martin Finally free from her major-label shackles, Tori Amos reflects on what went wrong during her major-label career, what she plans to do next, and how it feels becoming a comic book icon. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60785 2008-07-22T06:59:01Z 2008-07-22T06:59:01Z Deanne Sole There are pop songs in here but most of them try not to stand out. A vehicle for wistful indie chic. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60968 2008-07-22T06:59:01Z 2008-07-22T06:59:01Z Stuart Henderson This film navigates between two great emotional poles: the elation of national triumph on the soccer pitch, and the creeping terror of the thought police. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60596 2008-07-22T06:59:00Z 2008-07-22T06:59:00Z Mark Reynolds Notable figures from Diana Ross to Barack Obama have been slapped with the "s-word" at some point or another for any number of real or imagined offenses. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60863 2008-07-22T06:58:00Z 2008-07-22T06:58:00Z Brendon Griffin Narcoleptic bossa, painstakingly made in Italy. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60998 2008-07-22T06:57:00Z 2008-07-22T06:57:00Z D.M. Edwards As her graceful style instinctively shuns histrionics, clutter, heat and overt humor, Winstone is perhaps the opposite of another memorable British jazz singer: the late George Melly. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61071 2008-07-22T06:56:00Z 2008-07-22T06:56:00Z Dan MacIntosh Winter may be an AOR rock staple with his certified classic, “Frankenstein”, but he’s clearly not creating classic-worthy music these days. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60842 2008-07-22T06:55:00Z 2008-07-22T06:55:00Z Filmore Mescalito Holmes Featuring covers of still unreleased Young and Stills demos, many in 1970 thought this was a lost Buffalo Springfield album. More knew better. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.61216 2008-07-22T06:45:46Z 2008-07-22T06:45:46Z Bill Gibron It was all the Internet buzz last week. No, it wasn't a further dissection and/or dissertation on the then upcoming Christopher Nolan masterwork, The Dark Knight. No, that sensationalized ship... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.61202 2008-07-21T17:51:51Z 2008-07-21T17:51:51Z Mike Schiller tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61165 2008-07-21T11:44:48Z 2008-07-21T11:44:48Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.59448 2008-07-21T07:00:01Z 2008-07-21T07:00:01Z Mike Mineo The Modfather's ninth solo album just happens to be the most rewardingly eclectic of his storied career. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60677 2008-07-21T07:00:01Z 2008-07-21T07:00:01Z Dan Raper An outstanding and surprising dose of Finnish art disco. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60304 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Elizabeth Newton Smart arrangements and Hutchinson's bold charm combine to make Sounds Like This the summer's most guilt-free guilty pleasure. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60572 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Kirby Fields On more than one occasion the band’s collective memory is not exactly in synch, a point that only further reminds us that we are reading a mythology, not a chronicle. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60605 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Leigh Kelsey Classic Canadian songbird re-releases her solid second album with long out of print bonus tracks. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60699 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Mehan Jayasuriya A battery-powered fortress of disorienting electro-punk, Crystal Castles serves as the perfect introduction to the twisted world of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60751 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Michael Keefe Liz Phair's smart, daring, vulnerable, sexy, iconic debut album of DIY indie rock and next-gen feminism is remastered and appended with a few mediocre bonus tracks and a mixed-bag DVD documentary. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60984 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Shaun Huston The violin is symbolic of our investment of objects with meanings and desires beyond their immediate uses, and it continues to entrance and engage even after the film's final shot. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61125 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Louis Battaglia With TV on the Radio in town, blasting out new material alongside intense versions of “I Was a Lover” and “Wash the Day Away”, Buffalo, for a brief night, was the center of the universe. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61185 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Leigh H. Edwards In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61186 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal is not the documentary you might expect. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/column/19.61103 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Rodger Jacobs Fuller was a playful but hard-bitten cynic who imposed his sometimes weary, whistling-past-the-graveyard worldview on all those people sitting in the dark. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.60797 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Derek Beres PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.61081 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z 2008-07-21T07:00:00Z Anthony Henriques Track eight... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60584 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z Kieran Curran This Ireland is resolutely working class, bland, focused on the traditional pursuits of numbing the senses through alcohol, coping with the drudgery of dead-end jobs with an almost nihilistic escapism. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60902 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z Dan Raper The sophomore release from this celebrated, but very young, composer is concerned with modernity and antiquity at once. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60934 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z Jake Meaney It’s almost rather brilliant the way the film betrays and sabotages itself as it comes down the home stretch. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/feature/21.61093 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z 2008-07-21T06:59:00Z PopMatters Staff Amy Ray: Talking the talk and walking the walk, this singer/songwriter brings you the world with each song. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.60879 2008-07-21T06:58:00Z 2008-07-21T06:58:00Z Matthew Fiander This is certainly better than some of the other questionable releases coming from the Fat Wreck Chords camp, but I'm still not sure there's a good reason for Have Another Ball! to be on record store shelves. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/review/5.61041 2008-07-21T06:57:00Z 2008-07-21T06:57:00Z Andrew Martin Hip-hop heads across the board should give State of the Art a spin. ]]>