[Thu, 20.Nov.08]

[Thu, 20.Nov.08]
AA Bondy
24.Oct.08: Austin, TX
AA Bondy's half-spoken baritone and Appalachian influenced indie-folk seem at home in Austin, but I wonder if a lack of sonic force will be a problem in a venue with three well-stocked bars and a crowd that paid to see the headlining act.

[Wed, 19.Nov.08]
Atmosphere + Blueprint + Abstract Rude
15.Oct.08: Providence, RI
As Atmosphere kicked their set off with "Like the Rest of Us" and "In Her Music Box", two of the mellowest pieces in their catalog, it became apparent this wouldn't be just another hip-hop show.

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News, Reviews and Commentary from the World of Popular Culture

[Thu, 20.Nov.08]
:. Will this be a Blu-ray Christmas? The new generation of DVD player beckons
:. INTERVIEW:Kristin Scott Thomas shows another side in ‘I’ve Loved You So Long’
:. INTERVIEW:Mates of State: Losing an organ, gaining a piano
:. Fall TV isn’t fiery, but it has hot spots
:. INTERVIEW:‘Slumdog’ director Danny Boyle prefers the underdogs

[Wed, 19.Nov.08]
:. Still bound by ‘Dreams’: Players featured in 1994 film remain friends, though their lives have
:. INTERVIEW:CNN’s new face ushers in a new political era
:. This time, Silicon Valley’s technology changed U.S. politics
:. INTERVIEW:In his first novel in 10 years, Wally Lamb sweeps up history, violence and family heartbreak
:. INTERVIEW:Stephenie Meyer’s saga about young love and vampires heads to the big screen
:. Live recordings flourish in spite of technology
:. ‘Stonewall 2.0’ generation rallies for gay rights
:. About love, Ted Turner’s mouth is closed

[Tue, 18.Nov.08]
:. Actors in offbeat ‘Pushing Daisies’ must keep their distance
:. Taking stock of the economy via eBay
:. INTERVIEW:Al Green is always touching up his work
:. INTERVIEW:After finishing his long-lost ‘Smile,’ Beach Boys guru returns with a tribute to Los Angeles
:. INTERVIEW:Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti finds a big catharsis in Little Joy
:. INTERVIEW:A rock ‘n’ roll two-fer: Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers hit the road together

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Birthday: The Beatles’ White Album 40th Anniversary
By PopMatters Staff
[20.Nov.08] :. Side Three: It's back to basics once again as the band finds the musical muscle memory to mesh all their influences into seven sensational tracks.

Prisoners Are the Best Audience: The Challenge of ‘At Folsom Prison’
By Jason Gross
[19.Nov.08] :. Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison wasn't a pivotal live album or country album or Cash album -- it was a piece of history unto itself, flaws and all.

COLUMNS

From the Cheap Seats: Future Primitive: Kimbo Slice’s Cruelest Cut
By Tobias Peterson
[20.Nov.08] :. Slice, whose fortunes were at once torn asunder and radically refigured by a hurricane, constitutes a perfect storm of racial stereotypes himself.

Rabble Without a Cause: One Last Legacy for Bush
By Bill Reagan
[19.Nov.08] :. With George W. Bush eager for a way to salvage his legacy, perhaps we can throw him a bone in the name of Homeland Security.

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Hamburg: Germany’s Port of Rock ‘n’ Roll
By Karen Zarker and Sarah Zupko
[17.Nov.08] :. PopMatters shoulders its backpacks and treks to Hamburg to check out Germany's pop music capital, to partake of four days of Kunst und Kultur, historical wanderings, and indulge in a bit of Gemütlichkeit.

20 Questions: Roy Harper
By PopMatters Staff
[17.Nov.08] :. Roy Harper is a consummate musician's musician, straight out of the British folk scene. He chats with PopMatters 20 Questions, sometimes with tear in eye, sometimes with tongue in cheek, about film, literature, and music.

Voodoo Music Experience Festival
By Anderson Heston
[14.Nov.08] :. The Voodoo Experience brings national acts to New Orleans and highlights the city’s uniquely diverse music scene. Such is the ethos of the city: Anything goes, as long as there’s dancing.

Where Music is Written, or Dapper LeChampagne’s Unraveling at Austin City Limits
By Justin William Follin
[13.Nov.08] :. Dapper was going to disintegrate today. He would see her during Band of Horses. She was wearing white. Her eyes were round and soft when they met his.

Unchartered Territory: The Making of an Icon in The James Stewart Western Collection
By Matthew Sorrento
[13.Nov.08] :. As he headed westward in his films, a new, darker Jimmy Stewart helped redefine a genre.

The Signal and the Violence of American Identity Politics
By Timothy Gabriele
[12.Nov.08] :. The oppressor in The Signal is an underlying, parental figure in absentia. It is industrial civilization as pathology, inextricably and somehow willfully divorced from reality.

“To Be Happy in Your Own Life is All You Can Do”: An Interview with Wayne Coyne
By Drew Fortune
[11.Nov.08] :. It laboured for years in production, all while its lead actor was at the height of his drug addiction and the press grew wary of its many delays. Finally, the Flaming Lips' full-length film Christmas on Mars is seeing the light of day, and Wayne Coyne couldn't be happier to talk about it.

Hung Up: The State of Rock Poster Art
By Stacey Brook
[10.Nov.08] :. With major labels fading and promotional budgets cut to the bone, can rock-concert poster art survive? Can it even thrive?

20 Questions: Stereophonics
By PopMatters Staff
[10.Nov.08] :. One of Apple's inventions and Salvador Dali's creations hold some envy for members of Stereophonics. The band's bassist and drummer talk with 20 Questions about these and other inspirations.

A Study in Contrasts: An Interview with Maiysha
By Christian John Wikane
[7.Nov.08] :. Too black for some and not black enough for others, Maiysha defies racial and musical conventions. With the launch of her debut album underway, she chats about race, celebrity, and a typical day in the United States of Hysteria.

Personal Epics: The 46th Annual New York Film Festival
By Michael Buening
[7.Nov.08] :. Shafted by the current events taking place outside its theaters, the New York Film Festival was agreeably low-key this year, demonstrating that art, at its best, can serve as valuable provocation when we try to make sense of a bewildering world.

The Man Who Wasn’t There: Wrestling with Oliver Stone’s W. and the Enigma of George W. Bush
By Josh Timmermann
[6.Nov.08] :. Stone doesn't "get" Bush’s true historical legacy (any more than the rest of us do in 2008), but he cannily realizes that, warts and all, Bush is an undeniably pivotal figure.

Yesterday's Jukebox: The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking
By Evan Sawdey
[6.Nov.08] :. The forefathers of modern-day noise-rock release practically all of their odds-and-sods, which includes songs that are terrible, funny, exciting, bland, and utterly spectacular in equal measure.

CMJ Music Marathon 2008: From Top Draw to Taco Bell
By Thomas Hauner, Steve Stirling, John Bohannon, and Vijith Assar
[5.Nov.08] :. Whether they were looking for a quick blast of blog action or a record deal, over 1,000 bands poured into New York City looking for that elusive ounce of praise that could elevate them from a gaggle of fans to the Gossip Girl soundtrack. Here are the best 20 and the worst 10 artists.

Raging in the Streets
By Alexander Billet
[4.Nov.08] :. With America rejecting conservative politics, the time is ripe for Rage Against the Machine's return. The band has rediscovered creative and political confidence that fits these tumultuous times perfectly.

Are We the Rockstars We’ve Been Waiting For?
By Aaron McKain
[3.Nov.08] :. Barack Obama may be Radiohead and Sarah Palin a riot grrl punk, but they aren't rockstars. The reason why is that the rockstar is dead.

20 Questions: Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
By PopMatters Staff
[3.Nov.08] :. Tom Morello is as passionate about politics as he is about music. With the US Presidential elections looming, Morello chats with PopMatters 20 Questions about those who inspire him and the range of cultural and political genres they represent.

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Busted Headphones: Hip-Haute Couture
By Quentin B. Huff
[18.Nov.08] :. Although "hip-hop" means different things to different people, everyone seems to be confident that they know what "it" is. Through this subjective lens, there is also a unique brand of investment and ownership in the meaning of "hip-hop".

Field Studies: Bleary Eyed Duty: The Unflinching Testimony of David Eugene Edwards
By Andrew Gilstrap
[17.Nov.08] :. In a world where you can have a Christian version of pretty much any genre, Woven Hand's David Eugene Edwards is a real outlier because you wouldn't know where to put him if he were a secular artist.

Deconstruction Zone: The Hardest Work Imaginable: Bukowski’s Wine-Stained Notebook
By Rodger Jacobs
[14.Nov.08] :. Fear, one must understand, is the lubricant that keeps the wheels of human progress greased. Charles Bukowski understood this concept all too well.

The Screener: Dying on the Mind: ‘A Christmas Tale’ and ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’
By Chris Barsanti
[14.Nov.08] :. In the moody House of the Sleeping Beauties, an aging widower fights despair with a succession of naked beauties, while in the sprawling A Christmas Tale, a family bickers around their mother’s terminal illness.

Queer, Isn't It?: A Cure for What Ails You
By Michael Abernethy
[13.Nov.08] :. Thanks to modern psychology, you can now be trained to accept or reject homosexuality – yours or others -- depending on your interpretation of what's needed.

Pop Osmosis: My Name is URL
By Jennifer Byrne
[12.Nov.08] :. Welcome to the latest strain of cultural insanity: people changing their given names to slogans, political ads, and website URLs.

Vox Pop: You’re Gonna Get a Lot More Girl Talk
By Meta Wagner
[11.Nov.08] :. Even though the presidential and vice-presidential candidates didn't win the posts they were gunning for, Americans have a lot of women winners, this election.

Moving Pixels: Retro-ing Games
By Mike Schiller
[11.Nov.08] :. The disparity in the approaches Capcom took to Mega Man 9 and Bionic Commando beg the question: what do we want out of a "retro" experience?

Suffragette City: I’ve Loved You So Long: Interviews with Kristin Scott Thomas and Philippe Claudel
By Matt Mazur
[10.Nov.08] :. Kristin Scott Thomas delivers the performance of the year in Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long, and tells Mazur how she did it.

: Forty-Nine Hours at T-Dot Town’s Annual Small World Music Festival
By Derek Beres
[10.Nov.08] :. Today's global music is an extension of the culture that has been emerging over the last century, when airplanes and vinyl recordings made social exchanges possible to an extent previously undreamed.

The Screener: Keith Haring: Warhol, Jr.
By Chris Barsanti
[7.Nov.08] :. The Universe of Keith Haring digs under the artist's pop veneer and goes all the way to the surface, finding some kind of meaning in simplicity.

Jazz Today: R.I.P. Smooth Jazz, Round Two
By Will Layman
[6.Nov.08] :. Smooth Jazz truly is the music of the gesture. It is music of the pose. It is music -- maybe particularly when it is made by a skillful musician -- that hints at real music without being real music.

ReDotPop: In a Groove, in a Grove
By tjmHolden
[6.Nov.08] :. Even in the dead of summer when a cacophony of cicadas clinging to the limbs assail the ears, the visitor caught in the grove cannot help but be sucked into the mystical vortex.

Blood and Thunder: Wetnurse: Not Just Weaned on Metal
By Adrien Begrand
[5.Nov.08] :. Wetnurse's Curran Reynolds talks about growing up in the isolated Maine woods, recording with NYC mainstay Martin Bisi, and how his band expresses "love as well as angst".

Negritude 2.0: The Limits of Celebrity
By Mark Reynolds
[4.Nov.08] :. Even Oscar-winning worldwide superstars such as Jennifer Hudson aren’t immune from sh*t jumping off in the ‘hood, where jobs disappeared long ago, and warzones are populated by local gangs -- not Al-Qaeda wannabes.

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