Hey, everyone! Our good buddy Eric Grubbs of Theme Park Experience has finally reached the end of years of hard work on his book, POST: A Look at the Influence…
Recently I’ve been gnawing away at Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited, a series of ruminations on the state of modern society (modern as in 1958, the year the book…
Close of the market, 9/29/08 My political/economic socialization came during the heady days of free market zealotry.Á‚ 1984 was a year when it seemed like many of my friends —…
Y’know, if you name your kid Herbert or Poindexter, you’re just setting that child up for a lifetime of teasing and ridicule.Á‚ And if you name your band Kajagoogoo, well,…
Man your battlestations, itÁ¢€â„¢s time for another quiz. No clue for this weekÁ¢€â„¢s puzzle, as you guys are far too good at this already. Below are magnified fragments of 25…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE This weekend I was rummaging through my DVDs looking for a particular movie, and kept happening upon some music-related DVDs that I thought would make…
David Bowie – “Space Oddity” Peter Schilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)” DwDunphy: It almost seems unfair that Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom” should go up against David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”…
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Todd Rundgren’s last two albums have been released in election years. But Todd is Godd, after all, so I have to assume there’s some…
Pity the publicist who offers up an exaggerated sense of their artist’s sound. I’ve been offering up some semblance of music criticism since I was a senior in high school…
This past Sunday, in a coordinated effort to flout a federal law banning political endorsements from the pulpit, 33 evangelical and fundamentalist pastors in 22 states used their sermons either…
Each year when a stalwart of the entertainment industry makes his or her final curtain call, I find myself wishing IÁ¢€â„¢d paid closer attention to their work and inevitably fill…
The Archies: The Archies Christmas Album featuring Betty & Veronica (Fuel) I took a lot of shit a couple of Fridays ago for saying some negative things about the Archies’…
Jason Reeves – The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (And Other Frightening Tales) purchase this album (Amazon) Think The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (and Other Frightening Tales) is a long title?…
BOTTOM LINE: It’s not the best of musicals, it’s not the worst of musicals. I don’t want to compare A Tale of Two Cities to Les Miserables because ATOTC, in…
I had a hard time deciding what soundtrack to offer you this week, and went through about five different ideas before time ran out and I chose Pump Up the…
Ted Asregadoo This is the first time Barack Obama and John McCain have faced each other as competitors rather than Senate colleagues, and itÁ¢€â„¢s clear that the chumminess of that…
M. Ward – Outta My Head from Transfiguration of Vincent (2003) 10cc – Sand In My Face from The Complete UK Recordings (2004) Zoot Sims – Someone To Watch Over…
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Hey everybody, welcome to the thirty-first scalp-scalding week of Name That Tune at Popdose. In these troubled times, a few simple rules can be a great comfort: The Rules: MAXIMUM…
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Warning: this weekÁ¢€™s column is going to get ugly, and fast. We start with Choke, an adaptation of Chuck PalahniukÁ¢€™s novel, which is also a love letter to its star,…
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) It’s become awfully fashionable to hate on his movies all of a sudden, but personally, I still regard the words “a Judd…
We’ve been fairly professional about this up ’til now. However, after this week, my objectivity is gone. Hitch up your sports cup, rant fans: here I go. President George W….
Once again John McCain has chosen chaos over constancy as his presidential campaign Á¢€¦ Oops, I forgot: McCain currently doesnÁ¢€â„¢t have a presidential campaign. ItÁ¢€â„¢s been Á¢€Å“suspended,Á¢€ even as he…
Note from John: My Phagz on 45 partner (not THAT way!) Matty has been on my jock non-stop, begging me to feature today’s artist on Lost in the ’90s since…
Seeing the nominees for this year’s Rock Hall class, I’m starting to feel like the writers who, year after year, banged on the “Get Art Monk into the Pro Football…
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…
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine – Ask a Ninja Presents: The Ninja Handbook (This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon) purchase this book (Amazon) I suppose I should begin…
Just over a month ago, I received an out-of-the-blue e-mail from friendly fellow named Ryan, who works for a word-of-mouth marketing site called BuzzParadise. Ryan invited me to try out…
Johnny Cash feat. Snoop Dogg, “I Walk the Line (remix)” (download) Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like. No, we don’t know how — or why — it happened. Discuss.