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MUSIC — FEATURE V Festival 2006 By Michael Lomas [31.Aug.06] :. Michael Lomas braves road-trip ruin in a desperate search for the sun. What he finds are ornery guards, boys with drugs up their bums, and a whole lot of bands.

MUSIC — FEATURE The End of OutKast? By Tim O'Neil [30.Aug.06] :. It would appear as if the Dynamic Duo have bitten off more than they can chew, because the results are, while brilliant in places, overall astonishingly mediocre.

MUSIC — FEATURE Trouser Snakes on a Tour Plane: A Long Journey with Journey By Michael Metivier [30.Aug.06] :. Love or loathe them, Journey's songs are etched into our collective subconscious, and deeper than most of us would like to admit.

SOCIETY — FEATURE Unspeakable Tragedy: Race and Katrina By Bob Batchelor [29.Aug.06] :. After Katrina, America was poised for a national conversation about race that never actually took place. What happened to squander the opportunity?

MUSIC — INTERVIEW The Sadies Come Out in Front: An Interview By Jennifer Kelly [28.Aug.06] :. Toronto's Sadies have backed up rock and alt.country's best-known acts -- everyone from Neko Case to Jon Langford to Jon Spencer -- but for two nights in February 2006, this lanky, hyper-skilled musical outfit took center stage at Lee's Palace, recruited 27 friends and admirers, and recorded the live album of the decade.

TELEVISION — INTERVIEW Everybody Likes TV: An Interview with TV Party Host Glenn O'Brien By Charlotte Robinson [25.Aug.06] :. PopMatters talks with NYC rennassaince man Glenn O'Brien about Warhol, Basquiat, Italian financiers, and getting TV on the mayoral ballot.

TELEVISION — FEATURE At the Intersection of Boob and Tube: The Bud-Sponsored Letdown of The Independent Television Festival By Jodie Janella Horn [24.Aug.06] :. Our fearless writer gets to the ever-retreating bottom of the Independent Television Festival and several free beers.

FILM — FEATURE The False Divide: Crosstalk in the Digital Wars By Shaun Huston [23.Aug.06] :. In the arguments over digital versus traditional film, can't we all just get along?

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Crash Landing in Los Angeles By Jon Garrett [23.Aug.06] :. Now a full six years removed from the release of his former outfit's first and only album, the erstwhile frontman for Crashland now finds himself halfway around the world, looking for a fresh start in southern California.

MUSIC — FEATURE Trippin': The Cure 1983-1987 By Adam Besenyodi [22.Aug.06] :. The third wave of Cure Deluxe Edition releases track Robert Smith's ascent from a murky personal and professional crisis to far-reaching commercial heights.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW A Lazarus Taxon: the Definition of "Tortoise" Continues to Change Before Our Eyes (An Interview) By Will Layman [21.Aug.06] :. Tortoise have reached the stage where they are the remixers of their own legacy -- by creating their own prism (in the form of A Lazarus Taxon) with which to bend their sound.

TELEVISION — FEATURE The Freakin' Truth By Cynthia Fuchs [21.Aug.06] :. When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.

MUSIC — FEATURE MY FAVORITE THINGS: Top Ten Tight-Arse Tricks: Saving Money on Tour By The Grates [21.Aug.06] :. For frequent flyers, especially musicians, the expense of travel can often be a real strain. To help their fellows, the Grates offer these ten favorite tips for saving cash on the road without risking jail time.

MEDIA — FEATURE MY FAVORITE THINGS: CBS Radio Mystery Theater By Bill Gibron [18.Aug.06] :. Spinning the dial and turning back the clock, Bill Gibron travels back in time to nights bathed in darkness and pierced by the crackle of static. Emerging from the speakers, voices beckon our traveler to reflect back on ghostly images of time gone by, revived and resuscitated like the radio drama format itself, and inexorably tied to the long moment-out-of-time that was CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

COMICS — FEATURE An Overview of Infinite Proportions: An Examination of the Infinite Crisis Series By William Gatevackes [18.Aug.06] :. PopMatters tackles the massive DC crossover so you don't have to.

BOOKS — INTERVIEW Vigilance: An Interview with Lillian Faderman By Ellise Fuchs [17.Aug.06] :. Lillian Faderman might be described as a cat who roars. Soft-spoken, attentive, and highly intelligent, she's made her name as an academic and activist.

MUSIC — FEATURE Riffing on Elvis By Various Writers [17.Aug.06] :. Everywhere you look these days, you're seeing traces of Elvis. Whether you know it or not. Today: Elvis and food, Elvis the Pelvis vs. Peaches' crotches, and Viva Las Vegas baby.

SOCIETY — FEATURE More Than a Mouthful By Paul B. Hertneky [15.Aug.06] :. The proliferation of food pornography threatens to overwhelm one of our most fundamental pleasures.

FILM — FEATURE Video Sharing, Amateur Art, and the Fight for a Populist Internet By Jacob McCarthy [14.Aug.06] :. We've taken a giant step toward convergence in the last 12 months, and the result has not been the demise of corporate television — it has been people choosing 30,000 times to watch a four-second video of a guy setting his own fart on fire.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Glimpse of a Gemini's Journey: An Interview with Donell Jones By Kai Bandele [14.Aug.06] :. The R&B singer battles alcoholism and climbs from singing on the streets to the Billboard charts.

MUSIC — FEATURE We Are the '80s: Music for the Masses By Adam Besenyodi [11.Aug.06] :. When dealing with something as personal as music, you're never going to please everyone. VH1 Classic's new CD series crosses multiple genres, but suffers when compared to better-prepared sets.

MUSIC — FEATURE Forever Never Changes By Sean G. Murphy [10.Aug.06] :. A look at the late Arthur Lee's finest album, the best document we have of that dazed and confused fever dream of free love, the summer of 1967. Its lessons about the era's aftermath still resonate.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Finger-Picked Blues and Never-Ending Sine Waves By Jennifer Kelly [9.Aug.06] :. Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny talks about the acoustic blues, raw psyche, and transfiguring rivers that shaped his new album The Sun Awakens.

MUSIC — FEATURE Brilliant Colors: The Jesus and Mary Chain Beyond Psychocandy By Dave Heaton [8.Aug.06] :. Conventional wisdom says that Psychocandy will stand as the Jesus and Mary Chain's ultimate statement. Listening to five of their now-remastered albums in a row might make you wonder why.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW On a Bus Named Desire: An Interview with Soul Asylum By Greg M. Schwartz [7.Aug.06] :. Frontman Dave Pirner discusses loss, music, and how their new album The Silver Lining has Soul Aslyum back in the rock 'n' roll game.

MUSIC — FEATURE Walkin' the Long Road By Danny Marroquin [4.Aug.06] :. At first, Woody Guthrie's birthplace tried to forget his name, but Okemah, Oklahoma has become home to a growing Guthrie festival, now in its ninth year.

FILM — FEATURE Kids' DVDS: August 2006 By Roger Holland [4.Aug.06] :. Raven-Symone Christina Pearman must die. She's been on TV since Adam bought Eve a portable Sony from a souhk just outside Bahrain. Her records have all sucked like Heather Harmon. She can't decide whether she's a Cheetah Girl or not.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Frightening Intensity, Damaged Beauty: An Interview with the pAper chAse By Jennifer Kelly [3.Aug.06] :. In a revealing conversation, John Congleton talks about fear, ambiguity, imperfect beauty, aging, and German postcard art... just don't ask him about "emo".

MUSIC — FEATURE Windtalkers: Chicago's own finally going for the almighty dollar. By Ben Rubenstein [1.Aug.06] :. Some of the artists living the life talk about Chicago's rap scene. Plus, PopMatters names the top 10 Chicago hip-hop up-and-comers.

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