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If you're a smart, historically-minded music critic or essayist, let your voice be heard by the quality readership of PopMatters.

Fotocrime's South of Heaven is interesting mostly in that it's one of the most mediocre rock records I've heard in a long time.

LPT's debut album, Sin Parar, hits all the right notes for a contemporary salsa album.

The Killers go for the big hooks and singable anthems on "Caution", but opinion is sharply divided about the song's merits amongst our Singles Going Steady panel.

Phuc Tran's smart, tough memoir, Sigh, Gone, might launch a broken down kid to read 150 great books—for free, at the local library.

Moto Hagio's The Poe Clan manga series a gender-fluid melodrama marked by deep psychological trauma.

In J&K, John Pham explores perspectives in the psychological sense. Like Picasso, he views things from more than one angle.

In The American Robot, Dustin A. Abnet explores how robots have not only conceptually connected but literally embodied some of the most critical questions in modern culture, as seen in this excerpt from chapter 5 "Building the Slaves of Tomorrow", courtesy of University of Chicago Press.

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The Killers go for the big hooks and singable anthems on "Caution", but opinion is sharply divided about the song's merits amongst our Singles Going Steady panel.

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Once in its thrall, these days I find the overriding message of '90s alt-rock especially naïve and even dangerous.

Moto Hagio's The Poe Clan manga series a gender-fluid melodrama marked by deep psychological trauma.

LPT's debut album, Sin Parar, hits all the right notes for a contemporary salsa album.

Canadian indie folkster Jennah Barry returns with her long-awaited sophomore album, Holiday, which takes on a looser, more relaxed approach.

Fotocrime's South of Heaven is interesting mostly in that it's one of the most mediocre rock records I've heard in a long time.

"Show Me Heaven" was another country. Maria McKee has moved to England, immersed herself in the Classics and turned away from the 21st century.

Phuc Tran's smart, tough memoir, Sigh, Gone, might launch a broken down kid to read 150 great books—for free, at the local library.

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Junk Drawer's "Temporary Day" is a simple yet compelling video for a gripping song that shows why the band have earned such acclaim in their native Ireland.

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