October Country focuses on the Mosher family to explore the many ways that patterns shape lives and expectations.

Part 1. Great art knows no seasons. Nevertheless, some music is made for—or at least can be fully appreciated during—specific times of the year.

Everybody thinks Radiohead’s 2003 album, Hail to the Thief, is a nod to the US Presidential election of 2000—an election that may have been stolen amidst confusion and debate about election-results reporting, voting booth design, hanging chads and...

A true fan feels true hate -- for the opposition, for the officials, and for anything else that stands between that fan's team and victory.

At first the Beastie Boys were brats, then they were bratty; with their third album Check Your Head they dropped an ebullient bomb that is both heartfelt and soulful.

Monsters of Folk continue to blanket the airwaves and intertrons with performances from their self-titled debut, which we found to contain precisely 8 PMEUs (PopMatters Enjoyment Units) out of 10....

Grizzly Bear continues to get mileage out of Veckatimest with this video for "Ready, Able". The song is as good as ever, but the stop motion video by Allison Schulnik is the real star...

Will Stratton is in the habit of releasing music for free, so it comes as no surprise that he's giving away a couple from his new album, No Wonder. The lyrics aren't anything special, with...

J. Tillman's video for "Though I Have Wronged You" is barely a video, consisting only of a low-res conversation between green and pink pixel clusters. What do they talk about? The usual: feeling...

Here's a video for the title track from Cocker's Further Complications, slinky stage presence and paper airplane transitions...