Join Kelly Stitzel for the last installment of this month’s Halloween-themed Soundtrack Saturday and find out what’s in The Fog.
The classic lineup of the Blues Project, led by Al Kooper and Steve Katz, made just one studio album. Fortunately, that album was the ’60s classic “Projections.”
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a Crib left to plunder,…
Robert Cass fills in for Jeff Giles this week and takes readers on a Box Office Flashback to October 29, 1996. (Rated R for adult language in anticipation of “Macarena” jokes.)
This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
“Friday Night Lights” is back for a bittersweet fifth season with a strong premiere.
What’s the easiest way for a record company to take your money every holiday season? Box sets! Join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton for a discussion of the best and worst compilations on the most recent episode of the Popdose Podcast!
Sometimes it’s not the story itself but how the story is told that counts. In The Outfit, Darwyn Cooke doesn’t let himself be hemmed in by Richard Stark’s original story,…
Dave Steed takes a look at 10 more of his favorite 300 metal albums.
There’s an awful lot that Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy doesn’t get. Here’s something else.
Gamblor attempts to bounce back after its first losing week — and for Halloween, we look at five NFL players and their monstrous equivalents from Greek mythology.
Get out the knives, axes and shish kebobs. Kelly Stitzel brings you a list of some of her favorite ’80s slasher films, just in time for Halloween.
When General Norman Johnson died on Oct. 13, the world of soul music suffered another incalculable loss. Ken Shane remembers the great singer.
You are interested in the unknown… the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking CoCSJ, in which I opine on comics…
It bothers me that Bryan Ferry’s new album Olympia slips into the “what might have been” category so easily. For what it is, being a release primarily comprised of Ferry’s…
There are only five days until Halloween and the Popdose staff is counting down the 20 most frightening films of all time — and as a bonus, we’re giving away a digital copy of The Exorcist.
If the prospect of yet another Saw film makes you roll your eyes, you’re not alone — as Jeff Johnson explains in his latest column, it’s easy to forget just how great the first film is.
You know you’ve hit it big time when celebrities wear your t-shirt. Shit though, it’s Miley. Run to the hills!
If you were reading my stuff way back in the old Jefitoblog days, you know I have a sick fascination for smooth jazz — to the point that I ended…
In 1982 Richard and Linda Thompson released what some saw as a devastating breakup album. The truth is complicated. A brilliant reissue gets to the heart of it.
Open up you bags, ’cause this week’s Mix Six is going to really dish out the musical treats!
Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy (Universal, 2010) Great Scott! I don’t know where the time went, but Back to the Future turns 25 this week, and to celebrate,…
ABC’s Rich Man, Poor Man ushered in a new form of television, one that saw great triumphs (Roots, Shogun, Lonesome Dove) and abysmal wastes of time (pretty much anything with Stephen King’s name attached to it).
Dave Steed checks out seven new metal releases so you know what to headbang to.
A Halloween draws near, the Popdose staff is counting down the 20 films that had them hiding under the covers and calling for mommy, starting with 20 through 11.
Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack has gone by many names over the course of his long career — Dr. John, the Night Tripper, that guy with the song in the Heineken…
Jeff Scott Soto is one of the great long-time underdogs of AOR. Rob Smith advocates for his immediate ascension to superstardom, in this week’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
Michael Fortes catches up with the stars of Parlour to Parlour’s 14th episode, The New Up, as they release a new EP and prepare for another national tour.
Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Date that the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon, changed its name to Tigress Books: 8/24/10 Nils Lofgren…
What if the Beatles stayed together — and the best of their solo work ended up on Fab Four albums?