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Sweet like a Hershey's chocolate kiss. Funky as if you forgot how good funk can feel. The sonic equivalent of sun rays bursting through an azure sky. That's "Better", the new single by Angela...

Indie Music

Our Hearts Still Beat For You: An Interview with Anna Ternheim (Sound Affects)

Published 11 hours ago by Kirstie Shanley at PopMatters

Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim takes a moment to chat with PopMatters.com about her musical output and the current Swedish music scene.

Indie Music

Shout Out Louds - Work (new album / MP3) (Mixed Media)

Published 11 hours ago by Tyler Gould at PopMatters

Shout Out Louds Work (Merge) Releasing: 23 February "Walls" is the perfect song for an anthem or a movie soundtrack or for making taking the bus feel much more grandiose and exhilarating. It's...

The Fall

Life on Mars: Series 2 (2006) (Short Ends and Leader)

Published 13 hours ago by Bill Gibron at PopMatters

Last time around, we compared this brilliant BBC detective series (with sophisticated sci-fi overtones) to David Fincher's equally excellent masterwork Zodiac - and the reasons still remain...

Too Short

Bishop Allen - "True or False" (video) (Mixed Media)

Published 13 hours ago by Sarah Zupko at PopMatters

Excessive cuteness alert, and no, it's not just the precious Bishop Allen tune. Lots of dancing, mod, '60s looking girls fill up the frames of the latest video from the Brooklyn pop band's 2009 album...

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Bishop Allen

DJ Shadow Handmade CDs and Vinyl (Consuming Consumables)

Published 13 hours ago by Sachyn Mital at PopMatters

DJ Shadow - Handmade CDs [$14.99] and Vinyl [$24.99] plus autographed DJ Hero Bundle [$159.99]

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DJ Shadow

Why I Gave Up on Glee (Channel Surfing)

Published 14 hours ago by Chris Conaton at PopMatters

What's wrong with Glee ? Inability to find a tone that works, confusing ridiculously stupid plotlines for compelling drama, and Auto-Tune. Wretched, wretched Auto-Tune.

Indie Music

How to Fold a Flag (Review)

Published 16 hours ago by Cynthia Fuchs at PopMatters

The veterans embody ideals and disappointments that most citizens, safe at home, have been encouraged to forget.

Indie Music

ZA Critrique: Crackdown (Moving Pixels)

Published 17 hours ago by L.B. Jeffries at PopMatters

Crackdown is a pure example of a gaming space designed with a sense of the "traditional" male gaming demographic in mind.

Indie Music

New Movies to Close Out the Year (trailers) (Mixed Media)

Published 17 hours ago by Rafer Guzmán / Newsday (MCT) at PopMatters

Rafer Guzmán of Newsday runs down the remaining films for the rest of the year, as well as a few entries hitting screens right after the holidays.

Indie Music

The Food of a Younger Land (Consuming Consumables)

Published 18 hours ago by Sarah Zupko at PopMatters

The Food of a Younger Land – Mark Kurlansky – Riverhead Books [$27.95]

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Trackmania DS (Consuming Consumables)

Published 19 hours ago by Mike Schiller at PopMatters

Trackmania - Atlus - Nintendo DS [$29.99]

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44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World (Consuming Consumables)

Published 19 hours ago by Rachel Balik at PopMatters

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World – ed. Robert Pledge and Jacques Menasche – National Geographic [$50]

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Music Listography: Your Life in (Play) Lists (Consuming Consumables)

Published 19 hours ago by Katharine Wray at PopMatters

Music Listography: Your Life in (Play) Lists - Chronicle Books [$16.95]

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Self

Picking Bones from Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Review)

Published 23 hours ago by Diane Leach at PopMatters

Mockett, the biracial daughter of a Japanese mother and Caucasian father, is a talented writer with an impressive grasp of East Asian culture and art.