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
Brett Newski’s particular brand of rock, described as “smash pop”, “diet grunge”, and “slack hop”, among other designations is on full display via the new single “What Are You Smoking?” The track follows the album Don’t Let the Bastards Get… Read More
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely over 100 pages. Its premise is high concept: on Super Bowl Sunday, 2022, all technology—a… 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
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
Introduction Since our earliest days, we humans have been cataloguers of the natural world. Once, our survival depended entirely on remembering what was safe and tasty, and what was ferocious, or toxic. Today, the survival factor may have lessened, but… Read More