MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of April 2025
In April’s best metal, Ancient Death tread into otherworldly death metal, Behölder stand firm on heavy ground, and Messa look beyond the doom confinements.
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The 100 Most Memorable 1999 Albums
PopMatters recently turned 25, and these memorable 1999 albums celebrate the popular music that defined the year of our birth, for better or worse.
15 Albums to Help You Fall in Love With Poetry
Whether you’ve been a poetry lover for decades or never read a stanza in your life, you’re likely to find something to make you fall in love with poetry among the batch.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of March 2025
In March’s best metal, Imperial Triumphant’s technical ecstasy continues, Rwake reinstate the magic, and Teitanblood rage their war against all.
In New Directors/New Films Ideas Bubble from the Cultural Magma
New Directors/New Films presents a cross-section of ideas and styles bubbling from today’s cultural magma, and elements and themes resonate from film to film. It’s our zeitgeist, baby.
The 50 Best Albums of 2005
Journey back 20 years, listen to the best albums of 2005, and hear the state of the art. It was an era of brilliant veterans and bold, new innovators.
The 10 Quintessential Tame Impala Songs
Tame Impala’s deeply revealing songs disclose important details about Kevin Parker’s life and outlook and mark the cornerstones of his individuality.
The 11 Best Films of Stanley Kubrick
Each aesthetic leap along Stanley Kubrick’s way leads to one inevitable conclusion; as an oeuvre, few are more impressive. As a craftsman, none can match him.
6 Deep Sea Monster Movies to Give You the Creeps
These six deep sea monster movies will give you creeps from the ocean depths and make you sob, snicker, scrutinize, and shudder.
The 10 Best Wilco Songs From Their First Era
Wilco are always full of surprises. Their lineup has changed frequently and reveals a group constantly pushing themselves into uncharted musical territory.
The 100 Best Alternative Songs of the 1990s
The best alternative songs of the 1990s highlight the “golden age” of indie/alternative rock. Britpop, grunge, art rock, shoegaze, and more came to the fore.
David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.