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Katy Perry: Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection

At first glance Kate Perry's Teenage Dream is shallow drivel, but it is the best shallow drivel in ages.

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"You're Afraid You'll Hate Everything Within a Month": An Interview with Lisa Hannigan

After scoring a Mercury Music Prize nomination for her first solo album after working with Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan returns with an effort more sophisticated and mature than before, and tells PopMatters all about it ...

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Bobby Flay Prepares Thanksgiving Dinner for PopMatters

In these two exclusive video interviews, master chef Bobby Flay cooks up some excitement with PopMatters, submitting to a Turkey Day "lightning round", preparing theoretical Entourage dishes, and having detectives search for a "missing ingredient" ...

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"I'm Doing My Best to Make It Unrelatable": An Interview with Gauntlet Hair

Wowing the world with their early singles and crafting a sound that mixes radio-ready beats with abstract guitar sounds, Gauntlet Hair retreated to their grandma's empty house to record one of the most forward-looking rock albums in some time ...

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29 Black Music Documentaries for Black History Month 2020: #2 'The Apollo'

England's Postwar Paranoia Creeps in the Shadows of Three Film-Noirs

Perfect Harmony: An Interview with Legendary Vocal Group the Waters

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29 Black Music Documentaries for Black History Month 2020: #2 'The Apollo'

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Katy Perry: Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection

At first glance Kate Perry's Teenage Dream is shallow drivel, but it is the best shallow drivel in ages.

"You're Afraid You'll Hate Everything Within a Month": An Interview with Lisa Hannigan

After scoring a Mercury Music Prize nomination for her first solo album after working with Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan returns with an effort more sophisticated and mature than before, and tells PopMatters all about it ...

Bobby Flay Prepares Thanksgiving Dinner for PopMatters

In these two exclusive video interviews, master chef Bobby Flay cooks up some excitement with PopMatters, submitting to a Turkey Day "lightning round", preparing theoretical Entourage dishes, and having detectives search for a "missing ingredient" ...

"I'm Doing My Best to Make It Unrelatable": An Interview with Gauntlet Hair

Wowing the world with their early singles and crafting a sound that mixes radio-ready beats with abstract guitar sounds, Gauntlet Hair retreated to their grandma's empty house to record one of the most forward-looking rock albums in some time ...

Electropop's Caribou Offers Joy Through Unpredictability on 'Suddenly'

Soccer Mommy Aims High on 'color theory'

James Taylor's Standards Album Sounds Exactly Like You Imagine It Does

Yasujiro Ozu on the Arts of Pachinko, Baseball, and Marriage

Ben Seretan Brings on the Catharsis with 'Youth Pastoral'

Cheer-Accident Work Through Their 39-Year History on 'Chicago XX'

Caroline Rose, A 'Superstar' Is What You Are

Racism's Trauma Reverberates Across Generations in 'Your House Will Pay'

The Tortured Mind of Anthony Asquith's Silent British Gem, 'A Cottage on Dartmoor'

Why Everyone Should Read Samra Habib's Queer Muslim Memoir

Even When He's No Longer in Fashion James Bond (Almost) Never Goes Out of Style

England's Postwar Paranoia Creeps in the Shadows of Three Film-Noirs

The New World Will Be Built by Refugees: On Two New Japanese Novellas

Perfect Harmony: An Interview with Legendary Vocal Group the Waters

Yasujiro Ozu on the Arts of Pachinko, Baseball, and Marriage

The Tortured Mind of Anthony Asquith's Silent British Gem, 'A Cottage on Dartmoor'

Mabel - "Boyfriend" (Singles Going Steady)

Why Everyone Should Read Samra Habib's Queer Muslim Memoir

Electropop's Caribou Offers Joy Through Unpredictability on 'Suddenly'

James Taylor's Standards Album Sounds Exactly Like You Imagine It Does

Soccer Mommy Aims High on 'color theory'

Ben Seretan Brings on the Catharsis with 'Youth Pastoral'

Cheer-Accident Work Through Their 39-Year History on 'Chicago XX'

At first glance Kate Perry's Teenage Dream is shallow drivel, but it is the best shallow drivel in ages.

After scoring a Mercury Music Prize nomination for her first solo album after working with Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan returns with an effort more sophisticated and mature than before, and tells PopMatters all about it ...

In these two exclusive video interviews, master chef Bobby Flay cooks up some excitement with PopMatters, submitting to a Turkey Day "lightning round", preparing theoretical Entourage dishes, and having detectives search for a "missing ingredient" ...

Wowing the world with their early singles and crafting a sound that mixes radio-ready beats with abstract guitar sounds, Gauntlet Hair retreated to their grandma's empty house to record one of the most forward-looking rock albums in some time ...

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