David and Enoch are the Toronto-based duo behind the community-driven MONEYPHONE and are set to release their forthcoming mixtape, ‘Faith’. As the next step in Continue Reading
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3 Pairs of Boots Celebrate Wandering on "Everywhere I Go" (premiere)
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 Continue Reading
Uncensored 'Native Son' (1951) Is True to Richard Wright's Work
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 Continue Reading
'We're Not Here to Entertain' Is Not Here to Break the Cycle of Punk's Failures
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 Continue Reading
The Infinite Beauty Of A Sweet Happiness Turning Into A Sad Memory Will Stir Your Soul In Elin Wolf’s New Release “Nighttrain To Yosemite”
Swedish singer, songwriter Elin Wolf (previously Elin K) will make your heart squeeze from the pain of memories dropping on your head from every angle Continue Reading
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species (excerpt)
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 Continue Reading
PM Picks Playlist 3: WEIRDO, Psychobuildings, Lili Pistorius
WEIRDO – INSOMNIAC IDEAS [EP] British electropop producer WEIRDO has captured serious BBC radio play with his emotive and tuneful alternative pop, and Annie Mac has Continue Reading
Tiphanie Doucet's "You and I" Is an Exercise in Pastoral Poignancy (premiere)
Two years ago, French singer-songwriter Tiphanie Doucet delighted listeners with her debut LP, Under My Sun. A “richly poignant and pastoral journey that reveals Doucet Continue Reading
'World War 3 Illustrated #51: The World We Are Fighting For'
In spite of everything that’s happened since Trump joined the stage of the 2016 Republican presidential debates, even just a year ago it might have Continue Reading
Jonnine's 'Blue Hills' Is an Intimate Collection of Half-Awake Pop Songs
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 Continue Reading
Thelonious Monk's Recently Unearthed 'Palo Alto' Is a Stellar Posthumous Live Set
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 Continue Reading
Arcade Fire's Will Butler Personalizes History on 'Generations'
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 Continue Reading
Deftones Pull a Late-Career Rabbit Out of a Hat with 'Ohms'
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 Continue Reading
Exploitation Shenanigans 'Test Tube Babies' and 'Guilty Parents' Contend with the Aftermath
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 Continue Reading
Premiere: Ashley Sienna Releases New Single “My Phone Died” Off Upcoming Debut EP Out Of My Head
Toronto-based Canadian singer-songwriter Ashley Sienna is back with yet another purely catchy gem, a single titled “My Phone Died,” the second release off her upcoming Continue Reading
The Flaming Lips Reimagine Tom Petty's Life in Oklahoma on 'American Head'
The Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne describes the backstory of American Head like this. He and the band were driving from a gig in Austin Continue Reading
Colombia's Simón Mejía Plugs Into the Natural World on 'Mirla'
Simón Mejía believes music is a universal language, but his musical universe includes singers, instrumentalists, electronics, birds, insects, as well as rocks and the water Continue Reading
Audrey Hepburn + Rome = Grace, Class, and Beauty
“And Introducing Audrey Hepburn”. With that credit, William Wyler’s Roman Holiday set off a special bombshell in the world of Hollywood stardom, one that announced Continue Reading
Bright Eyes' 'Down in the Weeds' Is a Return to Form and a Statement of Hope
In 2004, as I hobbled toward my frumpy 40s, I became enamored of a band that, at the time, appealed primarily to angsty teens: Bright Continue Reading
'Lost Girls and Love Hotels' and Finding Comfort in Sadness
“I tell myself there is no happy ending. All the pieces do not fit together perfectly. Things are ragged and messy. We are torn apart Continue Reading