Music Reviews
Selena Gomez Stops Time on ‘I Said I Love You First’
Selena Gomez’s fourth album zooms out on her celebrity presence, zooms in on her personal life, and hints at happiness and conflict.
Music Features
Guns N’ Roses’ Dragged High Art Through Primal Sleaze for ‘Appetite for Destruction’
The coiled intelligence and emotional impact of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction insists that humanity’s ugly reality is better than hypocrisy or quiescence.
Film
Television
Books
The Zombies’ Inhuman Staying Power
The Zombies only had a couple of hit songs, yet Robin Platts’ Times and Seasons shows their almost inhuman staying power to this day.
Games
33 Immortals’ Brutal Roguelike Burns within Dante’s ‘Inferno’
33 Immortals‘ grotesque, hellish landscapes and haunting soundtrack immerse players in a nightmarish journey into Dante’s Inferno.
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PopMatters Picks
The 50 Best Albums of 2005
Journey back 20 years, listen to the best albums of 2005, and hear the state of the art. It was an era of brilliant veterans and bold, new innovators.
