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PopMatters published four books in a series with Counterpoint / Soft Skull in 2008-2009 including " China Underground " by Zachary Mexico, " Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music " by Edward Whitelock and David Janssen, " Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists " by Iain Ellis, and " The Solitary Vice: Against Reading " by Mikita Brottman.
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PopMatters published " Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion ", ed.
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PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.
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The band then recorded a series of split releases for the Deathwish label, who also reissued the band's first two releases together as We're Unstoppable, described by PopMatters as " a furiously brief dose of old-school punk and hardcore dissonance ".
Reviewing the first three issues of the series, William Gatevackes of PopMatters said that " Lee's art is beautiful cannot make up for the writing or the holes in the storytelling.
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" Noah Davis of PopMatters. com criticised the show for neglecting plotlines and replacing them with " the gang's countless trips to the Bait Shop ".
John Bergstrom of PopMatters describes All Things Must Pass as " the sound of Harrison exhaling ", noting: " He was quite possibly the only Beatle who was completely satisfied with the Beatles being gone.
" A number of reviewers made some comparisons to the members previous bands with PopMatters reviewer David Powell stating that " Contraband is a pretty good record of unpretentious rock and roll that suffers from inevitable comparison with the best efforts of its parent bands.
* Interview with Forest Whitaker at PopMatters
" Adrien Begrand, also of PopMatters, gave an in-depth review where he acknowledged the band's talent in select song but also stressed the poor quality of Worship and Tribute as a whole: " They've shown they're a smart band, both musically and lyrically, but on Worship and Tribute, listeners are stuck with 40 percent inspiration, 60 percent filler.
* PopMatters interview with Jamie Stewart, 2004
Cynthia Fuchs from PopMatters wrote that the song " is another near miss, with admirable attitude but, well, laughable lyrics: " Tell me love isn ’ t true, it ’ s that something that we do " or better, " Tell the bed not to make " ( hmmm ).
Later that same year in Cleveland, Ohio, Williams was acquitted of an obscenity charge for simulating sex on stage wearing only shaving cream ( she subsequently covered her nipples with electrical tape to avoid arrest ).< ref > Plasmatics: Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics: The DVD-Ten Years of Revolutionary Rock and Roll < PopMatters.
PopMatters described the track as " brilliantly rousing " and " spazzy with electrifying multiplicity ".
" Rolling Stone called it " a landmark of jangly, guitar-driven avant-pop, and its shimmersing sound can still be heard in bands like R. E. M .." PopMatters wrote that the album " stands as a wildly inventive and influential record that stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the best music of the American post-punk era.
PopMatters writer Mark Anthony Neal commended Badu for her themes relating to hip hop culture and for her musical direction, writing that " it finds the artist Stepping into Tomorrow, with a new production collective in tow and some straight-up, free-floating, funky-ass R & B.
The packaging was praised by PopMatters, insisting that the box set is " very nicely packaged, in a swanky fold-out digipak with a clear plastic slipcase.
" Bill Gibron of PopMatters also thought the episode was funny, commenting that it " explored the often-cited ' slippery slope ' of allowing matrimony to be defined outside the parameters of a man and a woman — with hilarious results.
" Brian Houston of PopMatters wrote that " Songs for Dustmites is a successful album, but the caveat will always be that the reason for the success lies with the Lips contributions and not with Burns ’ s talent or vision.
" Ewan Sawdey of PopMatters compared " Don't Let Me Stop You " ( 2009 ) with " Behind These Hazel Eyes " saying that the former " may sound like another rewrite of an older Clarkson hit ( in this case, " Behind These Hazel Eyes "), but the observational lyrics about a questionable relationship are what ultimately makes the whole thing click.
PopMatters similarly praised it, calling it "... an impressive album that drips with
Kirsten Koba of PopMatters gave a positive review, writing " with pop star sass, she belts out [...] proving that she's a girl with attitude — and fierce rhyming ability.
Nikki Tranker of PopMatters said it " offers Britney ’ s fans something a little different with a simple tune beautifully underlined by a well-executed ‘ 70s disco sound ".
The performance on the Post Tour was called " explosive " by Adrien Begrand of PopMatters and was released on Live Box, in the Post Live CD, with the same performance being released on Björk's video Live at Shepherds Bush Empire.
During a review of Tami Hart's debut release with Mr. Lady, online magazine PopMatters described the label as " one of the bright spots in new music.
" PopMatters commented that " No Doubt isn't afraid of working with new ideas " but that the dancehall of " Underneath It All " was unsuccessful and sloppy.
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* " From a Texaco Sign ", PopMatters interview ( 11 / 2005 )
PopMatters ' review of Nothing singles out the lyrics from " Rational Gaze ": " Our light-induced image of truth — filtered blank of its substance / As our eyes won ’ t adhere to intuitive lines / Everything examined.
* PopMatters interview ( 9 / 2005 )
" Adrien Begrand of PopMatters, citing the lyric “ I salt and pepper my mango / Shoot spit at the window ” compared the song favourably to the song " Galang ", noting that " Sunshowers " " continued the fascinating contrast between playful and defiant.
As a review from PopMatters, he had said along with " Frozen ", " Drowned World / Substitute for Love ", " Ray of Light " and " Beautiful Stranger " that they were " testament to Orbit's ability to use gadgets and electronic wizardry not to alienate listeners, but to draw them in.
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Jessica Ford at PopMatters asserts that Willow's sexuality and her magical abilities are connected and represented by her relationships.
* PopMatters review by James Withers
Adrien Begrand of PopMatters described " South of Heaven " as " an unorthodox set opener in theory ", noting " the song went over like a megaton bomb detonating the place: dozens of inverted crosses projected behind the high drum riser, the sinewy opening notes kicked in, followed by an overture of bass, cymbal crashes, and tom fills, leading up to the slowly building crescendo " in a concert review.
" PopMatters critically slammed the album, summarizing its poor review by simply saying " Trent Reznor has run out of ideas.
Rahul Gairola of PopMatters wrote that while " the pilot lays the usual groundwork by showing how the characters ' lives are intertwined, it also demonstrates immediately the sitcom's major drawback, that the stereotypical gay character is the stand-out comic figure.
PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures.
According to Shawn O ' Rourke of PopMatters, the shift from the previous ages involved a " deconstructive and dystopian re-envisioning of iconic characters and the worlds that they live in ", as typified by Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ( 1986 ) and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons ' Watchmen ( 1986 – 1987 ).
PopMatters gave the album a positive review, but he was disappointed by the record label, and the public, for not releasing the single in the United States, commenting "“ On a Night Like This ”, a track that is meant to go right to number one on the Billboard Club Tracks list and while being completely ignored by the general public.
PopMatters had compared the song to previous work by Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk.
PopMatters said that the album was " hardly the stuff of mountain music ", and Village Voice described it to be " much sleeker, sexier, and more carefully assembled than work by the competition.
It was lauded by Michael Kabran of PopMatters as " easily one of the best hip-hop albums of 2007 and arguably one of the best albums of the past decade ".
*" All Star Superman # 1 ", by Neil Kenyon, PopMatters, January 6, 2006 ; review that compares and contrasts All-Star and Ultimate lines
" Every Night " is a song written by Paul McCartney while he was on holiday in Greece ,< ref name = PopMatters > and first released on his McCartney album on April 17, 1970.
* 2004 interview ( by Daulton Dickey at PopMatters )
Liam Colle of PopMatters was not impressed by Silent Alarm Remixed and commented that " the new tricks aren't quite charming, or very tricky for that matter ", because the album " reeks of a marketing brainstorm ".
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