[Wed, 10.Mar.10]

B. Dolan: Fallen House, Sunken City

The plucky Providence poet dodges the sophomore album slump with a poignant conscious hip-hop record, backed by huge beats from Alias.

Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead Symphony: Featuring the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Just when you thought Tankian was capable of putting together a dignified solo career, this happens.

Josh Turner: Haywire

Turner has a way of making pedestrian lyrics feel meaningful, or at least of getting us to ignore the clichés because he sounds really good singing them over this music.

Myra Melford and Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

The melodically free pianist presents her best-ever recording, crafting an accessible jazz adventure.

Will Hoge: The Wreckage

After being nearly killed on his scooter, Will Hoge returns with The Wreckage, a song cycle about the mess that lovers tend to get themselves into.

MORE MUSIC

[Mon, 8.Mar.10]
St. Vincent: 11 February 2010: Phoenix, AZ
St. Vincent (AKA Annie Clark) is a magnificent performer with a talented, intelligent group of musicians by her side. I defy anyone with blood still flowing through their veins to remain still and unmoved during her performances.

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MORE EVENTS

[9.Mar.10]

[8.Mar.10]

[Tue, 9.Mar.10]
:. INTERVIEW:Angelique Kidjo brings African experiences to her craft
:. The never-ending game: World of Warcraft’s impact on Borderlands
:. OK, they won , so what’s next?
:. Oscar gets biggest audience since 2005
:. ‘The Hurt Locker,’ Oscars’ dream film
:. Ability to convey thought process can make or break a performance
:. INTERVIEW:Actress prefers to be on, rather than looking at, a Broadway stage

[Mon, 8.Mar.10]
:. Late-night host opens up about going on the road, Conan off the air and pants on the ground
:. ‘We Live in Public’ is a revealing, cautionary tale
:. ‘Alice’ takes in $210.3 million worldwide, tops ‘Avatar’ premiere
:. ‘She’s Out of My League’ hotties share secrets, but they’re still out of our league
:. Still blogging? It’s old news
:. Kathryn Bigelow and ‘The Hurt Locker’ make Oscar history

[Tue, 9.Mar.10]
:. The Goo Goo Dolls Launch Tour in Advance of New Album
:. Port O’Brien Head Out on World Tour
:. The Depreciation Guild Tour with Serena Maneesh and Play SXSW
:. Dr. Dog Tour Incessantly This Spring
:. The Swell Season Play the Hollywood Bowl and Other Dates in May
:. Lesbian Spring West Coast Tour
:. Dead Trees Tour This April
:. Orotlan Begins Spring Tour in Baltimore
:. Band of Horses Launch Global Tour

By the Book: Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s - The Golden Age of Paranoia
By Francis Wheen
[10.Mar.10] :. They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn, and caliginous thoughts often swirled through President Nixon's murky, insomniac mind.

CULTURE AT LARGE: Angelique Kidjo brings African experiences to her craft The never-ending game: World of Warcraft’s impact on Borderlands

MIXED MEDIA: The Importance of Unbelief with Stephen Fry (video) The Notorious B.I.G. Died 13 Years Ago Today (videos)

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Lowbrow Literati: Diorama-Rama: Can Playtime Produce Art?
By Monte Williams
[10.Mar.10] :. Are toy photography "dios" a new art form, a different breed of fan fiction, or nothing loftier than playtime for the stunted?

IN THE BLOGS:
Notes from the Road: Muse: 8.March.2010 - Toronto
Marginal Utility: Subsidized homeownership
Short Ends and Leader: Go Ask ‘Alice’: The Meaning of $116 Million
Graphic Novelties: Missed Directions: Brand New Day
Sound Affects: Hey, Hey, etc… Why I Love the Monkees

Christine McVie’s Warm Ways
By Alfred Soto
[9.Mar.10] :. With Fleetwood Mac's Tusk recently turning 30, PopMatters offers some reflection on the too-often-overlooked Mac classic. In the first piece, Alfred Soto explores Tusk as the apex of the work of singer and keyboardist Christine McVie.

We Were the World: 86 Words Aboard the Crossover Express
By Alice Singleton
[9.Mar.10] :. In the second of our Tusk pieces, Alice Singleton explores how Fleetwood Mac fleetingly broke racial barriers in music and captured the heart of black girls raised on funk, R&B, and segregation politics.

It’s a Sad and Beautiful World: Remembering Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
By Mehan Jayasuriya
[8.Mar.10] :. We celebrate the life and work of singer-songwriter and Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous, who will be remembered as one of the most earnest, distinctive American songwriters of his generation. Truly, he will be missed.

20 Questions: Chang-Rae Lee
By PopMatters Staff
[8.Mar.10] :. The award winning author of The Surrendered talks about improvisation, the rigor of limitation, and sometimes having to take a risk.

Autopsy TV
By Joseph Natoli
[5.Mar.10] :. Autopsy entertainment makes painfully clear that no amount of Twitter and Prozac, Friending and Unfriending, Outplacement and Outsourcing, Bail Outs and Stimulus, Surges and Drones, Mii and Wii, Nunchuck and Netois can save us.

“They’re All One Guy to Me”: Interview with Antoine Fuqua
By Cynthia Fuchs
[5.Mar.10] :. Antoine Fuqua's new film, Brooklyn's Finest, is about men under pressure, men whose choices range between "righter and wronger", as on character outs it.

The Downfall of Professor Challenger: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism
By Cian Gill
[4.Mar.10] :. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist signifies not only the tension between rational science and the search for greater meaning that characterized the fantasy fiction of the dawn of the 20th century, but also the writer's own maddening obsession with Spiritualism.

The Union Endures: An Interview with the Boxer Rebellion
By Jason MacNeil
[4.Mar.10] :. Singer/guitarist Nathan Nicholson talks to PopMatters about his band's new album, the return to a label-less existence and his thoughts about the relationship between music and disaster relief.

A World Without Books?
By Shawn O'Rourke
[3.Mar.10] :. A Massachusetts prep-school's library goes digital, offering its students the ability to access millions of books and countless journals and magazines -- and all hell breaks lose.

The Iconographies: Sorry I’m Late: The Real Return of Barry Allen
By shathley Q
[3.Mar.10] :. Racked by delays, pushed aside by creative commitments, and years after the phenomenal Green Lantern: Reborn, Flash Reborn couldn't really matter. Could it?

Five Great TV Series to Discover on DVD
By Robert Moore
[2.Mar.10] :. One of the greatest benefits that DVDs have bestowed is the ability to discover great TV series that we missed the first time around. Here are five great shows that anyone who loves quality TV should see if they haven't already.

20 Questions: Holopaw
By Evan Sawdey
[2.Mar.10] :. Holopaw's Patrick Quinney reveals a secret love of Twin Peaks, a knowledge of all things Craig Biggio, and the 7" he'd love to argue about.

Busted Headphones: Tupac Shakur: An Icon in Context
By Quentin B. Huff
[9.Mar.10] :. How do you tell the story of Tupac Shakur? One book tries connecting his life, and sometimes his music, to the social and historical climate of the times.

Soundscape: Mix #3: Benbecula Records 1999-2009
By Alan Ranta
[8.Mar.10] :. Despite featuring a roster of the UK's most exciting and dynamic glitch, ambient, avant-garde, and indie artists, Benbecula Records closed its doors precisely ten years after opening them. Download the MP3 mix.

Re:Print: The German Issue: Still Straddling the Berlin Wall
By Alan Ashton-Smith
[8.Mar.10] :. The German Issue provides us with a time capsule from a very different era, but so much of its content remains pertinent.

Canon Fodder: Reality with a Pinch of Salto
By Michael Barrett
[5.Mar.10] :. Salto, a masterpiece of Polish cinema, seems to contain much of Poland's tradition in distilled form, as well as being a perfectly Konwickian construction.

The Rockist: Please Don’t Call ‘This’ Country
By Michael Brett
[5.Mar.10] :. You can say that this is just mindless garbage, no different than a Black Eyed Peas hit, but I disagree.

Cut of the Cloth: Underwear as Outerwear
By Aaron Wee
[4.Mar.10] :. Women have been flaunting their underwear for so long now we raise nary an eyebrow at the sighting of a g-string; but men were displaying their undies long before women even raised their hemlines.

Rabble Without a Cause: Result Not Typical: Improving Political Marketing
By Bill Reagan
[3.Mar.10] :. The US government is cracking down on misleading advertising; shouldn't political propaganda be included in the discussion?

From the Cheap Seats: Memorabiliaphilia: Nationalizing a Pastime
By Tobias Peterson
[3.Mar.10] :. Baseball looms large, the way anything in a magnifying glass seems to gain size and importance.

Re:Print: Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life
By Diane Leach
[2.Mar.10] :. We so want our geniuses to be perfect people. Or at least nice people -- and so often they aren’t.

Kickin' Up Dust: The Arrogance of Toby Keith
By Dave Heaton
[1.Mar.10] :. Arrogance is central to Toby Keith's music. Yet it's an arrogance tied to the notion that human beings are essentially deluded. Everyone thinks they're absolutely right, and everyone is usually wrong.

Re:Print: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
By Vince Carducci
[26.Feb.10] :. Sociologist Sharon Zukin looks at the forces at play in some of the cooler neighborhoods of New York in this update of Jane Jacobs and the principles of urban revitalization for the 21st century.