Texas singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker presents the myths we tell ourselves. Life is good. Love lasts forever. We are all heroes. And then he exposes the truth behind our shared fictions. Many of us are lonely, abused, and unhappy. True… Read More
“It is possible that I will be ejected from Deerhoof for saying this,” Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier tells us. “And if that happens I will certainly blame PopMatters. But a big influence for my efforts on [Future Teenage Cave Artists] was… Read More
“I’ll love you forever.” You’ve probably said it. You may have even meant it. On the one hand, of course, loving someone forever in the quotidian sense of the word (if there is a quotidian sense of the word “forever”)… Read More
As long as there are artists, there will be critics who apply tags and labels and sort those artists into “scenes” or genres or subgenres. And as long as there are critics who apply tags, there will be artists who… Read More
The music of Regis is nothing fancy. In the early 1990s, Karl O’Connor—the project’s namesake—helped pioneer the Birmingham Sound, a techno subgenre known for its stripped-down, aggressive minimalism. Together with his partner Female (aka Peter Sutton), O’Connor founded Downwards Records,… Read More
Online communities form around shared interests – popular culture, musical acts, politics, gaming – but that commonality often gets lost amidst community members’ disputes and disagreements. Moderators have the responsibility of sorting out those problems and that, along with their… Read More
The explosion of the “hood film” genre in late 20th century African American cinema arguably doubled as an extension of the street performances of the 1960s and blaxploitation films of the 1970s, while ushering in a new vehicle of post-Civil… Read More
“I was suffering from a classic case of wanderlust,” writes Ivy Mix, owner of heralded Brooklyn bar Leyenda, when recounting her first trip to Guatemala as a callow 19-year-old undergrad. That initial, unquenchable desire to get out of her comfort… Read More
In 2012, Kishi Bashi felt like a revelation. 151a was a stunning solo debut for the artist—a lush expression of idiosyncratic baroque cinema. It was the dreamlike arrangement of “I Am the Antichrist to You” that soared as the album’s… Read More
Few characters in American television history have had redemption arcs as compelling and universally lauded as that of Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated series which ran on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. Zuko (voiced by Dante… Read More