By now, creative music fans know Susan Alcorn for her feat in bringing the pedal steel guitar to New York’s downtown music scene, with guitarist Continue Reading
Shanghai Restoration Project Offer Innovative Alternate Reality on 'Brave New World Symphony'
The worlds that the Shanghai Restoration Project create are unfailingly sublime. Soothing, the group intrigue with their intricacies rather than overwhelm. Over the last 15 Continue Reading
Maxwell Stern Gives Us a Warm Car in Frigid Winter with 'Impossible Sum'
I first noticed Maxwell Stern from a pleasant, unassuming tweet that somehow snuck into my usually gloomy feed. Stern’s tweet said something about not really Continue Reading
Elvis Costello Gets Dark and Brooding on 'Hey Clockface'
When Elvis Costello crashed into the consciousness of rock fans in 1977 with his debut album, My Aim Is True, he seemed like the bastard Continue Reading
'Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives'
One of the exciting aspects of the explosion in queer studies in recent decades has been the growing body of work on place-based queer histories. Continue Reading
COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism
Take heed that thou wash said the Angel to Dante before opening the gates to the Purgatory with two keys, a silver key for remorse Continue Reading
Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached Twice: Celebrities React
President Donald Trump has been impeached for the second time. On Wednesday (January 13), the members of the House voted on a single article of Continue Reading
Rebel Wilson Opens Up About Being Kidnapped at Gunpoint
Rebel Wilson spoke publicly about her kidnapping experience. On Wednesday (January 12) a preview of the January 14 episode of Ant Middleton's Sky's Straight Talking debuted Continue Reading
Barry Gibb Re-Visits Bee Gees Classics with Superproducer Dave Cobb
While the Bee Gees are most famous as the emissaries of disco thanks to the monstrous success of the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Continue Reading
Is Christian Petzold's 'Undine' Myth or Therapeutic Dialogue?
Christian Petzold’s lengthy collaboration with actress Nina Hoss, from Wolfsburg (2003) to Phoenix (2014), saw the pair become inseparable. With the back-to-back films of Transit Continue Reading
London Neo-Soulster Kianja Impresses with "In a Different Light" (Live) (premiere)
In December, we featured upcoming London neo-soul artist Kianja’s single “I Get By” on the PopMatters Picks playlist. It’s an upbeat piano-driven number born of Continue Reading
Dave Scanlon's 'Pink in each, bright blue, bright green' Is a Stark, Deeply Elegant Solo Work
“This is sacred music written for my own personal practice. If it is at all utilitarian, I hope that it encourages you to create something Continue Reading
How Leeds Led the Goth Scene
Although the emergence of the goth subculture is often cited as developing around the Batcave’s 1982 founding in London, cities in the north of England Continue Reading
J Mascis Welcomes You to Three Nights of Exquisite Songcraft and Pure Fun
After the implosion of the Lou Barlow/J Mascis partnership in the late 1980s, Mascis signed Dinosaur Jr to a major label subsidiary and executed a Continue Reading
Someone Combined Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’ With The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ and It’s Fire
Someone has combined Paramore's "Misery Business" with the Weeknd's hit "Blinding Lights" and it sounds fire. Check out the mash-up, posted by nxghtshade toward the end Continue Reading
Jason Derulo’s Twitter Leaks Celebrity DMs, Posts Racial and Homophobic Slurs During Obscene Hack
Jason Derulo’s Twitter account was hacked — and the screenshots are shocking. On Tuesday (January 12), fans began to notice strange and incredibly offensive tweets Continue Reading
Blue Ivy Is Literally Beyoncé’s Mini-Me in Rare Dance Class Clip (VIDEO)
Want to feel old? Blue Ivy Carter is 9-years-old. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's daughter is destined for greatness, of course, and she is already showing signs Continue Reading
Ana Egge Reflects on a Tumultuous 2020 via "This Time" (premiere)
Ana Egge’s latest single, “This Time”, arrives on 12 January via all StorySound Records on all digital platforms. In part, the track is the result Continue Reading
Megan Rapinoe's 'One Life' Is Pitch-Perfect
I’ll be honest: the genre of sports memoir is a little, er, out of my league. The closest I’ve previously come to reading something sports-related Continue Reading
Elvis Presley's Unlikely Comeback
With the exception of his final years of deteriorating health, it would seem far-fetched to describe Elvis Presley in any of his professional incarnations as Continue Reading