The best stuff we watched this year. Bryan comes back for the final show. Never stop fighting.

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Popmatic Podcast for December 21, 2016: Best Movies & TV of 2016

The best music we heard in 2016. Prophecy of final episodes being bonkers is true. Here’s a Spotify playlist if that is something that you do.

Popmatic Podcast for December 14, 2016: Best Music of 2016

It’s our best books of 2016 episode featuring, wait for it, the best books we read in 2016. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for December 7, 2016: Best Books of 2016

After eight years and over 180 episodes Popmatic Podcast is about to call it in. December 21st will be our last episode. To congratulate ourselves for all our hard work, we just talk about whatever we want today. There are no rules. Sarah shows up half way through this episode because no rules. Will a […]

Popmatic Podcast for November 30, 2016: Party’s (Almost) Over

Comic books rule popular culture these days so maybe we should do an episode about them? Yeah, and John Lewis, 2016 Nashville Public Library Foundation Literary Award Winner, chose to write his memoirs in comics form. So we get graphic, literally. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for November 16, 2016: Comic Books Rule

Fall means pumpkin spice so this show is wall to wall p-spice… or wall to wall fall… or, wait Bryan’s back?! I’d love to say this show is off the rails but Popmatic is always a barrel over a waterfall so shut up and chug that latte before we hit bottom. Woooo! Make it a […]

Popmatic Podcast for November 9, 2016: Pumpkin Spicy

In the words of Mel Brooks, “Politics! Politics! Politics! Politics! Politics!” Make sure you get out and vote November 8th. In the meantime, let us entertain you with light-hearted books about assassinations and crumbling marriages. Seriously, we have a lot of fun on this episode. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for November 2, 2016: Election! Election! Election!

Sh-sh-sh-shoctober! We get horrific on Popmatic every Halloween. Mike hosts, Amanda goes cannibal, and we have a group therapy session to heal the damage done by The Exorcist. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for October 26, 2016: Shocktober

It’s our Artober music episode and we’re in Nashville so it’s wall to wall country! Just kidding. It’s mostly classical, film scores, doom metal, and Jimmy Eat World. An evil robot offers ten dollars to anyone who mentions BoomBox. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for October 19, 2016: Artober Eardrum Edition

This is our Artober food episode featuring on air taste tests. Start drooling now. We don’t mention Southern Festival of Books because we are bad at our jobs. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for October 12, 2016: Artober Tastebud Edition

We kick off Artober with an episode dedicated to the visual arts. Other art themed episodes are coming throughout the month. It’s so exciting it makes my head spin, or maybe I’m just getting a sinus infection. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for October 5, 2016: Artober Eyeball Edition

It’s Banned Books Week! We tell you about our favorite banned or challenged books. We don’t learn what “nunga-nungas” are. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for September 28, 2016: Banned Books Week

Popmatic crew is a bunch of goofballs so on this show we honor the life and legacy of brilliant goofball Gene Wilder. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this month. Good day, sir. I said good day!

Popmatic Podcast for September 21, 2016: Wild Wilder Wildest

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month and there will be programs all over the library. We tell you about are favorite books, movies, and music by Hispanic creative types. Amanda has enough machismo to talk about John Leguizamo two years in a row. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this month.

Popmatic Podcast for September 14, 2016: Hispanic Heritage Month

Seven is a holy number on Game of Thrones and this posts on the seventh day of September which used to be the sev… yeah, whatever, there’s a new Harry Potter book! This show = fantasy. Plus—what is tickling our fancy this week.

Popmatic Podcast for September 7, 2016: Highest Fantasy

The Popmatic Podcast is where you can rock out with your library card out. Librarians at Nashville Public Library tell you about the best books, movies and music. It’s like TV Guide but for people who are too smart for their own good.