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Best Music of 1999
BY POPMATTERS MUSIC CRITICS
Like 1998, 1999 was a tough year for compiling a "best of" list. Fact is, there were no absolute knock-outs, no dead-on number one picks, no era-defining or mind altering albums, precious few that soundtracked the Zeitgeist (Travis' The Man Who being the exception in the UK).
[end of year 1999]
Best Film & TV of 1999
BY POPMATTERS FILM AND TV CRITICS
The lists here are as diverse as the PopMatters writers, but they don't even begin to reflect their many interests, strange, mundane, and contradictory as they are.
[end of year 1999]
Fighting the Hand that Feeds You (If the Body Wears a Microsoft Shirt)
BY AXEL BRUNS
In a Western setting, it seems that a central aspect of being a fan of someone or something always means being hungry for more of the same — it is not enough simply to be satisfied with what's already out there, and what originally made the fan become a fan, but there is a nearly unstillable hunger for continuous reaffirmation of one's reasons for being a fan, through new product.
[19 November 1999]
Why does Pop Matter?
BY PATRICK SCHABE
Pop matters because it is a part of us, the essential element of our communication and expression in a postmodern world. This little essay cannot answer the questions I posited at the beginning of my rant, but magazines like PopMatters can.
[19 November 1999]
