Old days — good times I remember. Fun days, filled with simple pleasures. Drive-in movies, comic books and blue jeans, Howdy Doody, baseball cards, and birthdays take me back to a…
Ewan McGregor stars with Academy Award winners George Clooney, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges in The Men Who Stares at Goats. It’s a film about the current war in Iraq…
All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Each year the movie industry tries to push up the start of summer by opening their big event movies earlier in the year. Used to be that Memorial Day was…
Michael Parr says the family affair of Arranged Marriage captures the best aspects of two generations and wraps it up in a pop package.
You may be asking yourself “Who the F#*k Is B.o.B?” Michael Parr has the answer, and a review of his debut record “B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray.”
Is the raging debate over the quality, value, and legitimacy of “democratized” music journalism merely the death rattle of the old-line cultural gatekeepers?
I have mixed feelings when it comes to telling people about some of the shows I’ve seen. After all, the Beatles in ’64, Dylan in ’65, and the Stones in…
Comedian Don Novello has been portraying the part of chain-smoking priest Father Guido Sarducci ever since he bought the outfit for the character in 1974. Probably best known from his…
The summer of 1989 was when the Grateful Dead got big. I mean really big. The success of 1987’s In the Dark lead to an influx of new fans —…
“Big Audio Dynamite was born from the ashes of the Clash, something Mick (Jones) was never allowed to forget (hell, why should he!), and I was always aware of the…
Since I don’t like to combine letters in this series, today’s post covering the letter X is, well, tiny. Sorry, no X-Japan, Xavion, Xavier, Xyster, or Xymox here, but we…
Johnny B is back with reviews of recent comics, including Incorruptible, First Wave: The Spirit #1, and more.
With the new Nightmare on Elm Street just around the corner, Jeff Johnson takes a fearful look back at the previous entries in the franchise.
Up until about a week ago, I had no idea who Miranda Cosgrove is, but that’s because I blinked during the last shift change at the factory where tween starlets…
Witty, condescending, intellectual, elitist, satirical, educator, stuffy, wordsmith: Depending on whom you ask, all these apply to Tom Lehrer to greater and lesser degrees, but everyone has to admit the…
Mary Chapin Carpenter makes sadness sound good. This is a gross oversimplification of her appeal, one which I hope to correct later on in this review, but at their best,…
As his birthday approaches, Ted Asregadoo is inspired to put together a playlist of songs from the year he was born.
Are you a connoisseur of album cover art? Try and solve the 56th edition of Cover Me!
Robin Monica Alexander made it nearly 30 years without seeing Oklahoma — but as she later discovered, it’s never too late to discover the joy of a good surrey.
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the new Krishna Das album, though it perplexes him a bit.
It isn’t hard to fall for Tift Merritt, and not just for the obvious, superficial reasons. I recall back in 2005 when she was making the rounds for Tambourine, her…
As most of you know by now, “The Goon and the Prune” didn’t shoot a single frame of film in Bootleg City. Amnesty International caught wind of the filmmakers’ plans…
BOTTOM LINE: As Albin and Georges would say, “It’s rather gawdy, but it’s also rather grand.” It would be impossible not to enjoy yourself at the revival of La Cage…
Joni Mitchell is a long-time member of my personal pantheon. It’s a short list of artists who I revere not just for what they produce, but for the journey that…
Rob Smith grows mutton chops and brings out the old shag carpet, not to mention his Blondie Chaplin, Jefferson Starship, and Maggie Bell records, for an old-fashioned ’70s record party, on this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
It’s been 20 years since Lou Reed and John Cale set aside their differences to pay tribute to their former manager, Andy Warhol. Matthew Bolin takes a look back.
Earth Day 1990 was a very big deal. Held on April 23, a Sunday, it marked the pinnacle of an upswing in green consumerism and a transition for the environmental…
All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…