Features
Thursday, July 12 2007
Pretenders: Learning to Crawl
Their cathartic third proper album was really the last one under the Pretenders banner that could be considered something more than just a vehicle for frontwoman Hynde -- which is remarkable considering the ashes from which the album rose.
Saturday, December 23 2006
Best Reissues of 2006
At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 20 reissues of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow and Thursday for ongoing genre top 10s with our coverage culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday.
Columns
Monday, December 12 2011
A Holiday Mix Tape, YouTube Style
Who hasn’t sat through those holiday parties with the cozy but yawn inducing classics of Burl Ives playing ad nauseam? I can help with that.
Reviews
Monday, November 7 2011
'Pretenders: Loose in L.A.': Simple and Stark
In songs like ""My City Was Gone" or "Back on the Chain Gang", where we want more passion, we get merely passable.
Tuesday, September 8 2009
The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis: 11 August 2009 - New York
A powerful trio of female singers created three distinct atmospheres on a hot, humid evening in Central Park.
Friday, February 27 2009
The Pretenders
Even after nearly three decades of success and universally regarded status as a rock icon, Chrissie Hynde is still the same authentic rock chick, guitar slung near her waist, peering out behind thick bangs and thicker eyeliner.
Thursday, October 9 2008
The Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete
An album that paradoxically feels like a return to roots and yet is like nothing else in the band's catalog.
Thursday, November 16 2006
The Pretenders: Pretenders
One of the best one-two punches in rock and roll gets the well-earned deluxe treatment.
Blogs
Thursday, August 19 2010
Hey Gibson, Let’s Talk Guitar Albums: An Alternative Top 10
When it comes to matters of taste and ranking (a particularly combustible combination), there is no pleasing everyone. In fact, there is no pleasing anyone, since the list makers themselves are invariably disappointed or frustrated. And yet...
Friday, December 15 2006
The Pretenders – Pirate Radio Box Set
The Pretenders – Pirate Radio Box Set [Rhino - $56.00] Hardly "middle of the road"; decades after their debut in the late '70s, the Pretenders'…
News
Tuesday, August 18 2009
The great Pretender speaks her mind
MINNEAPOLIS — Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde is one of the most outspoken singers in rock 'n' roll. Let her rip. On insisting that her concert…
Friday, June 8 2007
Rocking the boat on rock band reunions
After the Smashing Pumpkins broke up at the end of 2001, leader Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin joined up with three other musicians to…
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