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All Things Reconsidered Featured: Top of Home Page Features Music Music Features Pop Past

The Legendary Waves Behind Fiona Apple’s Grand Debut ‘Tidal’

By Masarra Kahwaji / 27 March 2023

Using the spirals of poetry and jazz that formed her, Fiona Apple’s Tidal established the 18-year-old as an honest and revolutionary voice in music.

All Things Reconsidered Featured: Top of Home Page Features Music Music Features Pop Past

The Legendary Waves Behind Fiona Apple’s Grand Debut ‘Tidal’

By Masarra Kahwaji / 27 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features Film Film Feature Film Festivals Interviews

Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality

By Paul Risker / 27 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features Interviews Music Music Features

Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’

By Brice Ezell / 24 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features PopMatters Picks Television

Succession’s Final Season of Satire and Calamity Offers No Parting Panacea

By Ana Yorke / 24 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features Lists Music Music Features Sound Affects

The 10 Best Early Billy Bragg Songs

By John M. Tryneski / 24 March 2023
All Things Reconsidered Featured: Top of Home Page Features Music Music Features Pop Past

Depeche Mode’s ‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’ at 30

By Leslie Richin / 23 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features Film Film Feature

Fregonese’s ‘Marco Polo’ Traveled a Twisty Road to Production

By Michael Barrett / 23 March 2023

Music Reviews

Music Music Reviews Reviews

The New Pornographers Tone Down the Hooks on ‘Continue as a Guest’

By Chris Conaton / 27 March 2023

Continue As a Guest is a more delicate and less hooky version of the New Pornographers, the most reflective they’ve been since 2007’s underrated Challengers.

Model Citizen Take Us Back to the Garage
Music

Model Citizen Take Us Back to the Garage

By Michael Elliott / 27 March 2023
Aussie Shoegazers Flyying Colors Brighten Things Up on ‘You Never Know’
Music

Aussie Shoegazers Flyying Colors Brighten Things Up on ‘You Never Know’

By Marc Edelstein / 27 March 2023
Purling Hiss Take the Piss Out of Mainstream Rock on ‘Drag on Girard’
Music

Purling Hiss Take the Piss Out of Mainstream Rock on ‘Drag on Girard’

By Christopher J. Lee / 23 March 2023
North Mississippi Allstars Sail Onward for Peace & Harmony in San Francisco
Events

North Mississippi Allstars Sail Onward for Peace & Harmony in San Francisco

By Greg M. Schwartz / 23 March 2023
The Black Watch Mate Britpop Melancholy with California Brightness on ‘Future Strangers’
Music

The Black Watch Mate Britpop Melancholy with California Brightness on ‘Future Strangers’

By Adam Sobsey / 23 March 2023
100 gecs Mine Cultural Maximalism in ‘10000 Gecs’
Music

100 gecs Mine Cultural Maximalism in ‘10000 Gecs’

By John Amen / 21 March 2023

Music Features

All Things Reconsidered Featured: Top of Home Page Features Music Music Features Pop Past

The Legendary Waves Behind Fiona Apple’s Grand Debut ‘Tidal’

By Masarra Kahwaji / 27 March 2023

Using the spirals of poetry and jazz that formed her, Fiona Apple’s Tidal established the 18-year-old as an honest and revolutionary voice in music.

Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’
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Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’

By Brice Ezell / 24 March 2023
The 10 Best Early Billy Bragg Songs
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The 10 Best Early Billy Bragg Songs

By John M. Tryneski / 24 March 2023
Depeche Mode’s ‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’ at 30
All Things Reconsidered

Depeche Mode’s ‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’ at 30

By Leslie Richin / 23 March 2023
Suicide’s Music in Film: An Interview with Martin Rev
Fashion

Suicide’s Music in Film: An Interview with Martin Rev

By Jonathan Monovich / 22 March 2023
Liza Minnelli Hung Up Her Feather Boa and Sequins for ‘Gently’
All Things Reconsidered

Liza Minnelli Hung Up Her Feather Boa and Sequins for ‘Gently’

By ​Peter Piatkowski / 22 March 2023
Maggie, What Have We Done: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Final Cut’ at 40
All Things Reconsidered

Maggie, What Have We Done: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Final Cut’ at 40

By Chris Ingalls / 21 March 2023

Film

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Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality

By Paul Risker / 27 March 2023

Director Sharon ‘Rocky’ Roggio discusses her documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, and how the Bible has been weaponised against the LGBTQIA+ community.

Fregonese’s ‘Marco Polo’ Traveled a Twisty Road to Production
Featured: Top of Home Page

Fregonese’s ‘Marco Polo’ Traveled a Twisty Road to Production

By Michael Barrett / 23 March 2023
Suicide’s Music in Film: An Interview with Martin Rev
Fashion

Suicide’s Music in Film: An Interview with Martin Rev

By Jonathan Monovich / 22 March 2023
Jayne Mansfield Outsmarts the “Dumb Blonde” Role In Steinbeck Adaptation ‘The Wayward Bus’
All Things Reconsidered

Jayne Mansfield Outsmarts the “Dumb Blonde” Role In Steinbeck Adaptation ‘The Wayward Bus’

By Matt McKinzie / 21 March 2023
Hitchcock Toys with Filmgoers in ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’
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Hitchcock Toys with Filmgoers in ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’

By Paul Risker / 17 March 2023

Pop Past Film

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A Queer Reading of François Truffaut’s Masterpiece, ‘Jules and Jim’

By John Oursler / 19 February 2014
Features Film Film Feature Pop Past Film PopMatters Picks

The Film Lovers’ Dilemma with François Truffaut’s ‘Jules and Jim’

By Robert Moore / 25 April 2010
Features Film Film Feature Pop Past Film PopMatters Picks

Complicated Intersections in François Truffaut’s ‘Jules and Jim’

By Cynthia Fuchs / 31 May 2005

Books

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Jayne Mansfield Outsmarts the “Dumb Blonde” Role In Steinbeck Adaptation ‘The Wayward Bus’

By Matt McKinzie / 21 March 2023

Jayne Mansfield’s dramatic performance in the John Steinbeck-adapted drama The Wayward Bus disproves the notion that she was only capable of playing a “dumb blonde”.

Will the TV-Adaptation of ‘The Power’ Persuade Viewers?
Books

Will the TV-Adaptation of ‘The Power’ Persuade Viewers?

By ​Shaun Anthony McMichael / 20 March 2023
‘The Crane Husband’ Carries Its Origin Folktale to the Midwest
Books

‘The Crane Husband’ Carries Its Origin Folktale to the Midwest

By Eleni Vlahiotis / 20 March 2023
Jonathan Carroll’s Multiverse in ‘Mr. Breakfast’ Leaves Readers Hungry and Grumpy
Books

Jonathan Carroll’s Multiverse in ‘Mr. Breakfast’ Leaves Readers Hungry and Grumpy

By Rachel R. Carroll / 15 March 2023
Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’
Academia

Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’

By Luis Aguasvivas / 13 March 2023

Pop Past Books

Books Pop Past Books Reviews

Debut Novel ‘Older Brother’ Straddles France, Syria, and Sibling Suspicions

By Rayyan Al-Shawaf / 22 October 2019
Books Featured: Top of Home Page Pop Past Books PopMatters Picks Reviews

Pieces of Stories Create the Total Mosaic That Is ‘Fractured Lands’

By Andrea Tallarita / 9 August 2017
Books Featured: Top of Home Page Pop Past Books Reviews

‘Tablet & Pen’ Offers Glimpses of the Middle East from the Inside

By David L. Ulin / 10 January 2011

Television

Featured: Top of Home Page Features PopMatters Picks Television

Succession’s Final Season of Satire and Calamity Offers No Parting Panacea

By Ana Yorke / 24 March 2023

Succession, HBO’s most lauded release of the decade solidifies its place as one of TV’s best dramas, even though it shares nothing positive about our capitalist world.

Will the TV-Adaptation of ‘The Power’ Persuade Viewers?
Books

Will the TV-Adaptation of ‘The Power’ Persuade Viewers?

By ​Shaun Anthony McMichael / 20 March 2023
Burning Down the Patriarchy with Valerie Armstrong’s ‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’
Culture

Burning Down the Patriarchy with Valerie Armstrong’s ‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’

By Clint Enns / 7 March 2023
‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Has Us Asking: Is Justice Possible? 
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‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Has Us Asking: Is Justice Possible? 

By Ana Yorke / 6 March 2023
Will ‘That ’90s Show’ Include These 25 Nostalgia-Inducing Songs?
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Will ‘That ’90s Show’ Include These 25 Nostalgia-Inducing Songs?

By J. Simpson / 6 February 2023

Pop Past TV

Featured: Top of Home Page Pop Past TV PopMatters Picks Reviews Television

‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ Broke the Rules of Typical American Sitcoms

By Jeremiah Massengale / 15 January 2013
Culture Pop Past TV Television

Love, American Style and Sex, Conservative Style

By Bill Gibron / 3 March 2008
Features Pop Past TV Television

Male Bashing on TV

By Michael Abernethy / 9 January 2003

Interviews

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Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality

By Paul Risker / 27 March 2023
Featured: Top of Home Page Features Interviews Music Music Features

Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’

By Brice Ezell / 24 March 2023
Fashion Featured: Top of Home Page Features Film Film Feature Interviews Music Features

Suicide’s Music in Film: An Interview with Martin Rev

By Jonathan Monovich / 22 March 2023

Lists

Featured: Top of Home Page Features Lists Music Music Features Sound Affects

The 10 Best Early Billy Bragg Songs

By John M. Tryneski / 24 March 2023

In his first records, Billy Bragg slashes and burns his way through the political and personal struggles of early adulthood with youth’s passion and idealism.

10 Songs That Will Make You Love U2
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10 Songs That Will Make You Love U2

By AJ Ramirez / 20 March 2023
The 10 Best Peter Buck Collaborations in Song
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The 10 Best Peter Buck Collaborations in Song

By Adam Mason / 16 March 2023
15 of the Best Jangle Pop Songs Ever
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15 of the Best Jangle Pop Songs Ever

By Marc Edelstein / 10 March 2023
MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of February 2023
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of February 2023

By Spyros Stasis, Antonio Poscic / 9 March 2023

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The Legendary Waves Behind Fiona Apple’s Grand Debut ‘Tidal’
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The Legendary Waves Behind Fiona Apple’s Grand Debut ‘Tidal’

By Masarra Kahwaji / 27 March 2023
Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality
Featured: Top of Home Page

Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality

By Paul Risker / 27 March 2023
Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’
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Nickel Creek Repeat Themselves Anew on ‘Celebrants’

By Brice Ezell / 24 March 2023
Succession’s Final Season of Satire and Calamity Offers No Parting Panacea
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Succession’s Final Season of Satire and Calamity Offers No Parting Panacea

By Ana Yorke / 24 March 2023
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