John Adams started it. In addition to cowriting the Declaration of Independence and his role in the American Revolutionary War, Adams wanted American independence to be celebrated in a big…
The most rock-radio acceptable of the new-wave acts (with the possible exception of the Cars and the Police), the Fixx were always unfairly slammed as a producer’s band, the mere…
In this week’s edition of Caught on Tape, Steven Rosen journeys back to 1977, and his time spent in the eye of the Led Zeppelin hurricane.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A few weeks ago, I took my family down to a train wreck of an event called the Great American Food and Music Festival in…
DonÁ¢€â„¢t think Michael JacksonÁ¢€â„¢s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
Singer-songwriter Amy SpeaceÁ¢€â„¢s new album is one of those projects whose success youÁ¢€â„¢re tempted to attribute to the big names that appear in the credits. In the case of The…
Taking to the road this summer? You won’t find better company than the Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape, compiled by Jack Feerick and the Popdose staff.
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death, that he told her all his…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
BOTTOM LINE: It’s nearly impossible to not have a good time at Rock of Ages. Maybe it was the Blue Moon in my hand. Maybe it was my appreciation for…
I first heard about The Matchmaker (1997) during an HBO comedy special Janeane Garofalo did not long after she’d finished filming it. She was talking about her time in Ireland…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
I don’t want to write this. Like a lot of you, my heart is really heavy today. The only music that I really want to listen to, or even think…
To celebrate/exploit the release of Varshons, the new covers album by Evan Dando‘s Lemonheads, Bootleg City is covering its own covers-filled edition from July 27, 2007. Of course, back in those…
The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Don’t just do something — stand there! Ben Folds Five – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head from Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1998) Big Star – When My Baby’s…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Saving Grace: Season Two (2009, Fox) Purchase from Amazon. TNT’s Saving Grace stars Academy Award winner Holly Hunter as Grace (betcha didn’t see that one coming!), an Oklahoma City homicide…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Amidst the turbulence in the world of pop culture comes good news from, of all places, Afghanistan. At the start of the new documentary Afghan Star, we see a line…
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dw. Dunphy bids farewell to two pop-culture icons.
ItÁ¢€™s important to know what to expect from a show when the marquee lists four talents as formidable as Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller Á¢€” and…
In 1988, Leslie Phillips turned her back on a successful career as a Christian Contemporary artist, changed her performing moniker to “Sam,” and recorded her first mainstream pop album, The…
My fellow New Hampshire resident Mighty Sam McClain will be releasing his latest record, Betcha Didn’t Know, on City Hall Records July 21. It’s been a while in the releasing,…