The most notable aspect of Fleet Foxes’ appropriately titled latest release, Shore, is just how much it sounds like being at the beach. That is true of the deliberately wet songs, such as the rhythmic lapping of the waves on… Read More
Becky Warren, an award-winning, risk-taking roots artist who still needs to be properly rewarded for taking on a cold, cruel world while working for a living in Nashville since 2013, has seen the dark side of life. Now she’s shining… Read More
California-based husband-and-wife duo Andrew Stern and Laura Arias of 3 Pairs of Boots will release Long Rider in January 2021. The record demonstrates the pair’s unmistakable chemistry and honing of their Americana-driven sound, as evidenced by the single, “Everywhere I… Read More
Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”… Read More
Most books about punk rock are maddening. This is because of the beautifully human paradox at the heart of punk itself: punk ideology becomes corrupted when punk praxis achieves any kind of modest success. This principle seems to hold across… Read More
The music of Jonnine Standish is not exactly sunny. As a member of the duo HTRK (pronounced “Hate Rock”), she and Nigel Yang have made a career out of somber, brooding, skeletal rock songs that often deal with grief and… Read More
It’s a story that almost seems like a publicist dreamt it up, but it really happened. In the fall of 1968, a 16-year-old jazz fanatic and high school student named Danny Scher had the audacious idea of inviting legendary jazz… Read More
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler calls his new album Generations because the songs look back at where his personal and familial heritage connect and how that impacts him living in the present. The multi-instrumentalist creates bouncy, infectious rhythms and covers them… Read More
It’s been over two decades since the Deftones broke free of their status as nu-metal/rap-rock avatars with the addition of experimental DJ/keyboardist Frank Delgado in 1997. Unorthodox in his approach, Delgado didn’t partake in anything close to traditional scratching, instead… Read More
PopMatters has been following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series The Golden Age of Exploitation, a collection of films made outside of Hollywood’s studio system by independent mavericks. These filmmakers defied the Production Code and censor boards by making movies with taboo… Read More