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Music Reviews

Momma Spin Brilliant Gold From Growing Pains By Brian Stout/16 April 2025 Momma’s songwriting is stronger and more confident, and the production is summer-ready, begging you to put the windows down and crank it up.

Alabaster Deplume’s Spirital Jazz Meditates on a Blade By Brandon Miller/16 April 2025

Tucson’s XIXA Travel to the Aztec Underworld on ‘XOLO’ By Adriane Pontecorvo/16 April 2025

Matron Deliver an Exciting Exercise in Math Rock By Chris Ingalls/16 April 2025

Roomer’s New Album Ironically Leaves Nothing to Chance By Jack Walters/15 April 2025

Unrest Unleash the 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘Perfect Teeth’ By J. Simpson/15 April 2025

Sacred Paws’ Bright, Upbeat Rock Is Back in Action By Chris Conaton/15 April 2025

‘Renegade Queens’ Celebrates Latin Jazz Scene Women By Adriane Pontecorvo/15 April 2025

Bon Iver Finds Inner Peace on ‘SABLE, fABLE’ By Patrick Gill/14 April 2025

Music Features

Pop Past The Most Memorable 1999 Albums (Part 1) By PopMatters Staff/16 April 2025 PopMatters recently turned 25, and these memorable 1999 albums celebrate the popular music that defined the year of our birth. This is part one, with more to follow.

The Ophelias Discuss Their Brilliant New LP ‘Spring Grove’ By Brian Stout/15 April 2025

Momma Know Their “Blue Sky” Is Memorable By Brian Stout/14 April 2025

Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham Is on Fire with His Beautiful Work By Christopher J. Lee/10 April 2025

Sleigh Bells Combine Heavy and Light Extremes in Perfect Balance By Cameron Lipp/9 April 2025

The Eyes in Sam Wilkes’ Head Sees the World Spinning ‘Round By Evan Sawdey/8 April 2025

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of March 2025 By Spyros Stasis,Antonio Poscic/7 April 2025

Film Reviews

‘Warfare’ Tells a Brutally Universal Story Through a Narrow Lens By Chris Barsanti/17 April 2025

The Jericho Mile’s Relationship with Folsom Prison and Truth By Owen Symes/16 April 2025

Featured

The Long Dark Reach of Cornell Woolrich’s Noir Thrillers By Michael Barrett/15 April 2025

Hobart Bosworth’s Edgy Strong Silent Type Clings to Life By Michael Barrett/10 April 2025

‘Anora’, (Sex) Work, and the Fantasies of Genre By Ryan Poll/9 April 2025

Television Reviews

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Lets You Pick Your Poison By Matthew Dwyer/16 April 2025

Books

Historical Fiction’s Shipwrecks, Magical Objects, and the Marginalized By Veronica Menaldi/14 April 2025

Television

Dark Winds’ Tale of Memory and Monsters at Monument Valley By Lisa York/20 March 2025

Books

The Penguin’s Means, Ends, and Morality By Justin F. Martin/17 February 2025

Books Features

The Long Dark Reach of Cornell Woolrich’s Noir Thrillers By Michael Barrett/15 April 2025 Cornell Woolrich’s premise that happiness is always just beyond reach grabs hold of noir thrillersDark City,Beware, My Lovely, andNo Man of Her Own.

Sophie Gilbert Excavates Millennial Misogyny’s Buildup By Sam Franzini/14 April 2025

Historical Fiction’s Shipwrecks, Magical Objects, and the Marginalized By Veronica Menaldi/14 April 2025

In Northern Ireland, Absence Makes the Heart Feel More Deeply By Reggie Chamberlain-King/10 April 2025

Eric Puchner’s ‘Dream State’ Mirrors Life’s Haze By R.P. Finch/9 April 2025

Games Reviews

33 Immortals’ Brutal Roguelike Burns within Dante’s ‘Inferno’ By Spencer Johnson/25 March 2025 33 Immortals‘ grotesque, hellish landscapes and haunting soundtrack immerse players in a nightmarish journey into Dante’sInferno.

Playing ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ Is Catharsis for Resisting Authoritarianism By Igor Bannikov/18 March 2025

‘Avowed’ Conveys the Weight of Words In Our Times By Igor Bannikov/4 March 2025

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’s Success Lies in Its Meme-Worthiness By Igor Bannikov/19 February 2025

Scarity Is Stressed in Video Game ‘Citizen Sleeper II: Starward Vector’ By Luis Aguasvivas/3 February 2025

Lists

The Most Memorable 1999 Albums (Part 1) By PopMatters Staff/16 April 2025

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of March 2025 By Spyros Stasis,Antonio Poscic/7 April 2025

Features

In New Directors/New Films Ideas Bubble from the Cultural Magma By Michael Barrett/31 March 2025

Music

The 50 Best Albums of 2005 By PopMatters Staff/27 March 2025

The 10 Quintessential Tame Impala Songs By Alyssa Charpentier/25 March 2025

Interviews

The Ophelias Discuss Their Brilliant New LP ‘Spring Grove’ By Brian Stout/15 April 2025

Momma Know Their “Blue Sky” Is Memorable By Brian Stout/14 April 2025

Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham Is on Fire with His Beautiful Work By Christopher J. Lee/10 April 2025

Sleigh Bells Combine Heavy and Light Extremes in Perfect Balance By Cameron Lipp/9 April 2025

Ollella Makes the Political Personal on ‘Antifragile’ By Edd Hurt/9 April 2025