The 10 Best Oasis Songs From the B-Sides
Oasis kept putting out singles all throughout their career, spawning some pretty memorable B-side tracks. Here are ten of their best.
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The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos
John Coltrane redefined the vocabulary of jazz with his “sheets of sound” and modal approaches. He also revolutionized how people play the saxophone.
Dancing in the Street: Our 25 Favorite Motown Songs
Detroit’s Motown Records will forever be important as a hit factory and an African American-owned label that achieved massive mainstream success and influence.
Get Hooked: 15 Classic Songs About Addiction
Great artists suffer, so we don’t have to! Rather than face such personal demons ourselves, we list 15 classic songs about addiction for the morning after.
Miles Davis’ Top 10 Performances of American Standards
While Miles Davis will always be known for his original music, it’s worthwhile to give a listen to his great performances of standards from his earlier career.
The Satisfaction Index: Covers of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
Six generations of musicians cover the Rolling Stones’ zeitgeist-capturing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”. Some are good. Some bad. Some just have fun with it.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever
Explore 50 of the most brilliant, impactful, innovative, and controversial albums of the classic post-punk era, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations.
Five of 1999’s Best Guitar Rock Albums
In a rare confluence of creativity, five exceptional records helped shape 1999 and yielded some of the most enduring guitar rock of the past 25 years.
Five Sci-fi Video Game Soundtracks for the End of the World
PopMatters looks to the sonic canvas of five sci-fi video game soundtracks, because every dystopia, no matter how bleak, deserves good music.
The Best TV Shows of 2023 (You May Have Missed)
Murders, heists, fraud, ethical quandaries, preternatural gifts, nuns battling AI – we bring you the curious and the wild – the best TV shows of 2023 you may have missed.
Five Directors’ Cuts We’re Lucky Didn’t Happen
The director knows best? Not always. Here are five directors’ cuts that we’re lucky didn’t happen – these films were improved by studio interference.
JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Autumn 2023
Our jazz columnist chooses the best new jazz albums of Autumn 2023 while reflecting on a new documentary, Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity.