Music Reviews
Pixies’ New LP Is a Fine Addition to Their Second Act
Pixies’ latest LP, featuring new bass player Emma Richardson, is another solid but not earth-shattering effort. It’s clever, if not cute, with a charming theme.
Music Features
Nate Mercereau Is Challenging the Notion of “Genre” Itself
From playing with Shawn Mendes to helping André 3000 break genre barriers, guitarist Nate Mercereau’s latest breaks ground by ignoring labels and limits.
Film
An Older Kind of Fear: Five Classic Halloween Horror Movies on Blu-Ray
From 1930 to 1980, these five horror movies offer masked maniacs, mad scientists, murder mysteries, mummies, and military cannibals for your Halloween freak-out.
Books
The Rise and Fall of New York’s Bohemian Capital Greenwich Village
Based on 150 interviews with folk music notables, David Browne’s Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends this saga in music history the epic scope it has long deserved.
Games
Neva’s Emotion-Engine Gameplay Is a Beautiful Crowd-Pleaser
Neva‘s emotion-engine gameplay, inspired more by Disney’s Bambi than the works of Miyazaki Hayao, is the most sentimental game I’ve played in a long time.
Interviews
Nate Mercereau Is Challenging the Notion of “Genre” Itself
From playing with Shawn Mendes to helping André 3000 break genre barriers, guitarist Nate Mercereau’s latest breaks ground by ignoring labels and limits.
Lists
An Older Kind of Fear: Five Classic Halloween Horror Movies on Blu-Ray
From 1930 to 1980, these five horror movies offer masked maniacs, mad scientists, murder mysteries, mummies, and military cannibals for your Halloween freak-out.
Television
Deadwood’s Moral Optimism
Individualism was not the dominant force on the American frontier, as most Westerns would have you believe. Deadwood explores the era’s cooperation and moral optimism.
PopMatters Picks
A Place to Bury Strangers Don’t Let Up on ‘Synthesizer’
The Loudest Band in the World, A Place to Bury Strangers, draw from seminal, post-punk influences while taking things to new places on Synthesizer.
