Video: The Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne [HD]

PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet. PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet. Most entries have media to sample the records in the form of video and music streams. U.S. readers can listen to most of these albums in full and Lala has also set up [...]

Arthur Jones animates an album review by Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot

Imagine for a second that so-called 'ccol' indie bands had their own version of Heat magazine. For a start it would be called Chaud or Sweat, and it would focus on the personal lives of these real artists, ones that write their own songs. If such a thing were to exist then Eleanor Friedberger from The Fiery Furnaces would be most famous for stepping out with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand . Imagine the shots of them reading Bukowski in an uptown cafe or stumbling out of a beautifully dishevelled hotel. Luckily, such a [...]