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PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism and analysis, which has been independently owned and operated since its inception. Our scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture and we are the largest site that bridges academic and popular writing in the world. We provide intelligent reviews, engaging interviews, and in-depth essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, sports, theatre, the visual arts, travel, and the Internet. Since 1999, PopMatters has been providing smart readers with sharp, entertaining writing on a wide range of topics in pop culture, offering a refuge from the usual hype and gossip.

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Jan 17, 2025	ALL(H)OURS RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO “GRAFFITI” AHEAD OF NEW EP, SMOKE POINT	Photo Credit: EDEN Entertainment ALL(H)OURS drops pre-release track "Graffiti" with a music video ahead of their new EP, SMOKE POINT; EDEN Entertainment Becomes a JYP Entertainment Family Label NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, January...
Oct 8, 2022	After Dahmer: best serial killer movies and TV shows to watch	Americans seem to fear and love serial killers in equal measure. How else to explain us huddling, stricken, around a neverending deluge of movies, shows, novels, podcasts, true crime non-fiction, and even video games that constantly puts th...
Sep 12, 2022	100 must-see movies from the 2000s, according to critics	Entertainment 100 must-see movies from the 2000s, according to critics Meghan Cook Updated 2022-09-12T16:31:55Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the a...
Jun 7, 2022	Rachael Sage "Revelation Ground" Summer Tour: Spain Debut & UK Headline Shows	NEW YORK (PRWEB) June 07, 2022 Just back from a phenomenal 6-week tour of the UK & Ireland supporting Irish Folk/Rockabilly singer Imelda May, Rachael Sage will be heading to Spain to rejoin Imelda in key cities on the Iberian Peninsula...
May 17, 2022	Stephen King’s best movies embrace low art	If he’s known for one thing, Stephen King is the horror guy. He’s the author who wrote Carrie, or It, or The Shining, or any other work you can think of that seems designed to burrow deep into your psyche and discover what scares you most. ...
Apr 4, 2022	‘Morbius’ Composer Channeled Bat Sounds & John Carpenter For Sony’s Long-Awaited Marvel Project	Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) in Columbia Pictures' MORBIUS. © 2022 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. SALE, DUPLICATION OR TRANSFER OF THIS MATERIAL IS...
Feb 18, 2022	Rachael Sage Releases Official Video "Revelation Ground" To Accompany New Maxi-Single	NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 18, 2022 Rachael Sage has just released a new single and companion video, "Revelation Ground", the centerpiece track on her new Revelation Ground maxi-single. Mixed by Grammy® winner Andy Zulla, the track...
Aug 11, 2021	What Drag Queens Can Teach Us About Succeeding In Business	Hunter is the CEO of Xpedition, an award-winning TV production company and agency with clients at Google, McKinsey & Co., HGTV and YouTube.
Oct 22, 2020	‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ is now an Apple TV+ exclusive	On first screening, the network assumed it had a disaster on its hands. It was a quiet cartoon — more of a meditation on seasonal depression than a proper holiday film. The pacing was slow, it was voiced by a cast of amateur children and th...
Feb 5, 2020	All of Penn Badgley's movie and TV roles, ranked	Penn Badgley has played a number of terrible and delightful characters. Netflix, Screen Gems, The CW Penn Badgley is known for his leading roles on shows like "You" and "Gossip Girl." He's also appeared in a number of hi...
Oct 20, 2018	История SXSW: с чего начинался крупнейший фестиваль вокруг культуры, медиа и технологий	Получилось так, что второй год подряд я вхожу в число советников SXSW Pitch event. Сегодня я расскажу, с чего начинался «South by» в 70-е и 80-е. 0 Обсудить 1560 просмотров Austin 360 Bridge \| Brian Dooley \| Flickr \| CC BY " data-image...
Jan 29, 2018	The Grammys gave CBS All Access its second-biggest day for signups yet	Sunday night’s airing of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards turned out to be a big boost for CBS’ streaming service, CBS All Access, which offered a live stream of the event on its service. According to the network, its subscription video on dem...
Oct 27, 2017	What do doctors want from the Surgeon General?	Initially, Dr. John Woodworth was tasked with repairing the Marine Hospital Service, which was in a state of disrepair and greatly over-crowded. He was able to quickly lift the hospital from this decrepit condition and, with others, formed ...
Sep 20, 2017	Billy Corgan Played a Rare Smashing Pumpkins Deep Cut on a Livestream	Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream is one of the best rock albums ever, a perfect melding of commercial smarts with uninhibited, grandiose ambition. It's Billy Corgan's masterwork, and it kinda sucks that he spent the latter part of the 00s d...
Nov 28, 2016	Before the Rise of Girl Talk, A Green Day Mashup Album Showed the Form's Mainstream Potential	It was a Friday afternoon in October 2004 and Party Ben was scrambling to get ready for his weekly "Sixx Mixx" mashup radio show on San Francisco station Live 105. Green Day's George W. Bush-skewing punk rock opera American Idiot ...
Jul 1, 2016	A roundup of original iPhone reviews that got everything completely wrong	When the iPhone burst onto the scene in 2007, it was evident that the world of mobile technology would never be the same. While the original iPhone admittedly had its fair share of shortcomings (it lacked 3G, MMS support, copy and paste etc...
May 31, 2010	BUZZMEDIA Signs Up 6 Major Music Sites, Including The Hype Machine And RCRD LBL	Entertainment media company BUZZMEDIA (formerly known as Buzznet) has just announced the addition of 6 music sites to its ever-growing list of properties, namely PureVolume, PopMatters, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Hype Machine, Concrete Loop and ...
Mar 23, 2009	Riders of the next wave in music: Topspin Media	A moderately powerful computer and some choice bits of software can effectively replace dozens of individuals formerly integral to the music recording and mastering process. Multi-million dollar studios have been replaced by laptops with an...
Aug 9, 2004	The Basement Tapes	Those of you who are Bob Dylan and The Band fans have surely listened to The Basement Tapes. I have always loved the feel of those recordings. The songs are easy, the band is having fun, and it makes for a great listen. I wish more basement...
Jul 25, 2004	MP3 of the Week	As popMatters says about The Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free, “Mike Skinner is now in a class all his own; nobody else is making music like this.” I can’t stop listening to this album so my MP3 of the Week comes from it. The seventh so...
May 28, 2004	Ben Kweller	This guy is great. We saw him live in New Orleans and i’ve been into his two discs big time ever since. The PopMatters blog has a great interview with him up right now.
	Must Reads Of The Week: 6 Articles You Shouldn’t Miss Out On [25 May – 30 May]	We bring to you this week’s must reads, your weekly resource of some of the curated articles from around the web.Millennials Are Destroying Banks, And It’s The Banks’ Fault After the 2009 credit crunch there has been a transition in people’...
	What do doctors want from the Surgeon General?	Dr. Jerome Adams is the 20th U.S. Surgeon General. Since 1871, the surgeon general has been recognized as an official position when Dr. John Woodworth was appointed the first Supervising Surgeon of the national hospital system. The Marine H...
	A roundup of original iPhone reviews that got everything completely wrong	When the iPhone burst onto the scene in 2007, it was evident that the world of mobile technology would never be the same. While the original iPhone admittedly had its fair share of shortcomings (it lacked 3G, MMS support, copy and paste etc...

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Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning PopMatters, among them “ALL(H)OURS RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO “GRAFFITI” AHEAD OF NEW EP, SMOKE POINT” (Jan 17, 2025) and “After Dahmer: best serial killer movies and TV shows to watch” (Oct 8, 2022).

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