When I worked at Billboard in the mid-Á¢€â„¢90s, a stroll past dance editor Larry FlickÁ¢€â„¢s cubicle was a necessity — he sat near the door — as well as an…
Alkaline Trio, Agony & Irony (Epic) purchase this album (Amazon) These Chicago-bred emo pioneers have been gradually sanding down the rough edges of their sound for years — and with…
BOTTOM LINE: It’s wordy and long and the subject matter seems less than current, but the production is great, the direction is interesting, and the cast is one of the…
Heather Nova – Walk This World from Oyster (1994) Jungle Brothers – I’ll House You from Straight Out the Jungle (1988) Kool Moe Dee – Let’s Go from Greatest Hits…
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the twenty-first cochlea-teasing week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Back by popular demand as measured by the demandometer, here are our ever-popular Rules: The Rules…
‘Sup, everybody? Happy Friday! This week in Billboard history brings us a bunch of Mellow Gold, a bunch of disco, and two oddballs smack in the middle. Let’s take a…
I have violated the covenant between reader and critic. You, the reader, expect me, the critic, to leave his home in Brooklyn, get on the subway, and attend screenings 25…
The stifling heatwave that gripped southern California for a full week blew away just in time for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to fill L.A.Á¢€™s Greek Theatre with music and…
Happy Gay Pride! I mean, really. This just may be the gayest post ever on Popdose, and that’s coming from the guy who does a feature called Phagz on 45…
The passing of Bo Diddley got me on a hardcore listening jag. Doesn’t take much to get me back on Bo, and there are several other blues and quasi-blues dudes…
Like many Saturday afternoons, we found ourselves straightening up the house, the children and I. It was June 2007, it was hot, and they were beginning to bicker. What can…
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. HeÁ¢€â„¢s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Collette Savard – Zen Boyfriend (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Her debut release, 2005’s Most Improved Cheerleader, was a mostly underwhelming porridge of folk granola and deadly earnest balladry —…
Comprised of material from their earliest singles, everything from Wooden Shjips’ Volume 1 was actually written before the material on their self-titled release from last year. Unfortunately, it shows. Wooden…
The Pop Project – Stars of Stage and Screen (2008) purchase this album (Suburban Sprawl) Oh God, yes. I don’t know how I’ve managed to remain ignorant of this band…
Death Cab for Cutie isn’t the only band who threw fans off with an unusual single this year. Go ahead and add Sigur Ros to that list. When they released…
Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, thatÁ¢€™s not right, let me try that againÁ¢€¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early Á¢€Ëœ80s arena rock as…
This past week I was like a pig in shit. Nine tracks from Chinese Democracy were leaked and I couldnÁ¢€â„¢t be happier. See, Guns nÁ¢€â„¢ Roses are my Led Zeppelin….
When I was living in Johannesburg, I spent about four months dating a woman who worked as a professional editor for film and television commercials. She put together a video…
Before getting lost in the world of orchestral strings and Tim Burton soundtracks, Danny Elfman was the singularly strange lead singer/songwriter behind guitar/horn section new wave hybrid Oingo Boingo. Big…
—– The Magnetic Fields – “I Wish I Had an Evil Twin” Good Zack: IÁ¢€™m not a fan of The Magnetic Fields in any particular sense, but this is…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE If it wasn’t for Scott Malchus, this week’s mix would have been missing from the Popdose lineup.Á‚ But, because of his suggested theme — and…
The seven words you can’t say on TV. There. The thing that every blobit (blog + obit = blobit) is going to focus on is out of the way and…
Here we go again — John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back some booze and review…
As God is my witness, I had already planned to write this column before Jeff dropped the news in his column, Freshly Unwrapped, that Morten Harket was scheduled to release…
[Taylor’s note: The incredibly talented Vincent Á¢€Å“Hey Is It Okay If I Get Called V-SidesÁ¢€ Rendoni did such a wonderful job with his write-up on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks that…
Can you feel it? I feel it. You know what IÁ¢€â„¢m talking about Á¢€” that sudden jolt, that shock that has surged through the American consciousness over the past three…
I was supposed to write a column about several reality shows airing this summer, and I had good intentions of doing just that. But the only reality I know right…
Earlier this month New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo reported that he had sent his staff to 1,000 pharmacies across the state in March, April, and May and found more…