Muhammad Ali’s Biggest Victory
Sean MurphyQuestion: What cultural figure of the 60?s best represents you–the way you dress, act, create, see the world, or wish the world saw you. It can be Chuck Berry or…
Brooklyn Reading #1: Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus the bongos and clove cigarettes. As such, New York City was a mandatory locale; Brooklyn…
Butch Warren, R.I.P. (One Year Later)
I know I sound like a broken record on these occasions but the simple fact of the matter is this: there are artists leaving our planet who can't --and in…
The Brown Sisters: Forty Portraits That Tell us Nothing, and Everything
Life and Art combine to create something that is representative of the best both are capable of achieving. I have little I can, or want to, add to the pictures…
Winchester Book Gallery: Another Reading (Revisited, one year later)
Anyone who has written a book wants to see it in a bookstore. To have a reading, in a bookstore, is both a dream and, for a variety of inevitable…
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
Cont'd: PopMatters is doing some heavy lifting in the service of setting the historical record straight. Starting today, they are assessing the Top 100 albums of the last decade. I…
Iron And Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
PopMatters is doing some heavy lifting in the service of setting the historical record straight. Starting today, they are assessing the Top 100 albums of the last decade. I contributed…
Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Sean Murphy – the 90?s Edition (The Weeklings*)
Point/Counterpoint is a beloved feature that first appeared in the fall ’72 Telex edition of the Weeklings. PC/P is the product of an intellectual tradition hearkening back to storied Oxford…
How About Some Unironic Love for Emerson, Lake & Palmer?
Here are three words that strike fear in the hearts of all those allergic to prog rock: Emerson. Lake. Palmer. Popular enough to have several songs still in the regular…