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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 15 December 2022

The 13 best pop albums of 2022 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.

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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 15 December 2022
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The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022

By Steve Leftridge / 14 December 2022
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Jazz Singer Catherine Russell Bridges the Century with Soul

By Will Layman / 14 December 2022
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Film-Noir ‘Peking Express’ Is Hollywood’s First Encounter with Red China

By Michael Barrett / 14 December 2022
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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 13 December 2022
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DJ Sun Discusses His Immigrant Roots and ‘Loveletter’ to Music

By Kyle Cochrun / 13 December 2022
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The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022

By Andrew Spiess / 12 December 2022

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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 15 December 2022

The 13 best pop albums of 2022 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.

The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022
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The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022

By Steve Leftridge / 14 December 2022
Jazz Singer Catherine Russell Bridges the Century with Soul
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Jazz Singer Catherine Russell Bridges the Century with Soul

By Will Layman / 14 December 2022
The Best Electronic Albums of 2022
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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 13 December 2022
DJ Sun Discusses His Immigrant Roots and ‘Loveletter’ to Music
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DJ Sun Discusses His Immigrant Roots and ‘Loveletter’ to Music

By Kyle Cochrun / 13 December 2022
The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022
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The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022

By Andrew Spiess / 12 December 2022
The 20 Best Album Re-Issues of 2022
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The 20 Best Album Re-Issues of 2022

By PopMatters Staff / 9 December 2022

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Adeem the Artist Announces With ‘White Trash Revelry’ That It’s Their Country Too

By Rick Quinn / 12 December 2022

White Trash Revelry offers no elegy for hillbillies. Through deeply empathetic songwriting, Adeem the Artist has made one of the best country albums of 2022.

Lucius Rock San Francisco with Heavenly Harmonies
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Lucius Rock San Francisco with Heavenly Harmonies

By Greg M. Schwartz / 12 December 2022
FaltyDL Goes Indie and Finally Sings on ‘A Nurse to My Patience’
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FaltyDL Goes Indie and Finally Sings on ‘A Nurse to My Patience’

By Adam Sobsey / 7 December 2022
Joan Kelsey’s Grief Inspires the Astonishing ‘Standing Out on the Grass’
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Joan Kelsey’s Grief Inspires the Astonishing ‘Standing Out on the Grass’

By Chris Ingalls / 5 December 2022
Sorry’s Songwriting Tweaks Make for a Big Improvement on ‘Anywhere But Here’
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Sorry’s Songwriting Tweaks Make for a Big Improvement on ‘Anywhere But Here’

By Chris Conaton / 5 December 2022

Film

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Film-Noir ‘Peking Express’ Is Hollywood’s First Encounter with Red China

By Michael Barrett / 14 December 2022

The 1951 film-noir Peking Express (not to be confused with Shanghai Express) should be seen as Hollywood’s first attempt to deal with Communist China in the context of the Red Scare.

The Death Labyrinth in ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’
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The Death Labyrinth in ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’

By Hector DeJean / 12 December 2022
The 10 Best Classic Films on Blu-ray and DVD in 2022
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The 10 Best Classic Films on Blu-ray and DVD in 2022

By Michael Barrett / 12 December 2022
‘White Noise’ Is a Pop Art Fever Dream of Catastrophe and Consumerism
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‘White Noise’ Is a Pop Art Fever Dream of Catastrophe and Consumerism

By Chris Barsanti / 10 December 2022
LFF’22: The Dardenne Brothers on the Life-Affirming Friendship in ‘Tori and Lokita’
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LFF’22: The Dardenne Brothers on the Life-Affirming Friendship in ‘Tori and Lokita’

By Paul Risker / 6 December 2022

Pop Past Film

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The Mystery of History in Jia Zhangke’s ‘I Wish I Knew’

By Michael Barrett / 7 December 2020
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Chinese Cinema Through a Communist Lens

By Michael Buening / 6 January 2011
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Mu Fei’s ‘Spring in a Small Town’ Dwells Among WWII’s Ruins

By Michael Barrett / 9 August 2007

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Bob Stanley’s Book on the Birth of Pop Music Spins One Helluva Playlist

By James A. Cosby / 13 December 2022

Bob Stanley provides an utterly comprehensive and much-appreciated reference guide for the world of pre-rock pop music. We just need to carve out a million hours to stream the music.

Storytelling the Slow Violence of Environmental Degradation in The Niger Delta
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Storytelling the Slow Violence of Environmental Degradation in The Niger Delta

By Alejandro Hirsch Saed / 5 December 2022
Caroline Hagood’s ‘Weird Girls’ Prods the Monster Within to Snarling Life
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Caroline Hagood’s ‘Weird Girls’ Prods the Monster Within to Snarling Life

By Megan Volpert / 2 December 2022
Michael Imperioli’s ‘The Perfume Burned His Eyes’ Could Be Titled In the Thrall
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Michael Imperioli’s ‘The Perfume Burned His Eyes’ Could Be Titled In the Thrall

By R.P. Finch / 30 November 2022
‘Bliss Montage Is a Surrealistic Meditation on the Human Condition
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‘Bliss Montage Is a Surrealistic Meditation on the Human Condition

By Eleni Vlahiotis / 29 November 2022

Pop Past Books

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Environmental Activist Bill McKibben on How Civility, Humor, and Soul Music Is Essential to Resistance

By Elisabeth Woronzoff / 25 January 2018
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It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: ‘Against the Anthropocene’

By Vince Carducci / 13 September 2017
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It’s Not Easy Being Green: Swamp Thing, Ecology and the (Sometimes Slimy) Nature of Being

By Dean Blumberg / 2 June 2010

Television

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The Revulsion Should Not Be Televised: On ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’

By Hector DeJean / 22 November 2022

H.P. Lovecraft’s masterful method of telling a horror story eludes “Pickman’s Model” and “The Dreams in the Witch House” from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

‘Miss Sherlock’ Homages Sherlock Holmes with an Androgynous Twist
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‘Miss Sherlock’ Homages Sherlock Holmes with an Androgynous Twist

By Hector DeJean / 16 November 2022
Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?
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Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?

By Juliette Holder / 11 October 2022
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‘Lovecraft Country’ Is Heady, Poetic, and Mangled

By Chris Barsanti / 7 August 2020
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The TV Gothic: When Horror Came Home

By Thomas Lalli Foster / 1 November 2016
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Guillermo del Toro’s Vampires in ‘The Strain’ Create a Familiar Nightmare

By Cynthia Fuchs / 13 July 2014

Interviews

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Jazz Singer Catherine Russell Bridges the Century with Soul

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LFF’22: The Dardenne Brothers on the Life-Affirming Friendship in ‘Tori and Lokita’

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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022

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The 13 best pop albums of 2022 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.

The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022
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The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022

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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022
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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022

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The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022
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The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022

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