In her new half-hour web series Look of the Week, Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo talks with guests about films old, new,…
Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” exemplifies the shift among pop’s reigning divas — from P!nk to Katy to Ke$ha — away from self-aggrandizement and toward messages of self-help aimed directly at their audiences. Jon Cummings explores the new pop paradigm.
In the latest Random Play, Robin Monica Alexander explains how hip-hop group Yo Majesty is as American as apple f***in’ pie.
No, it’s not Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – but it’s close! Sean Olmstead of fpodbpod gives us a tour of his funhouse in this month’s Parlour to Parlour.
John Waite gives us another classic piece of heartbreak poetry with “If You Ever Get Lonely,” causing Rob Smith to swoon in his latest “Death by Power Ballad” column.
Fox’s new cop drama “The Chicago Code” is fast-paced, smart, and brings emotion to an action-based genre.
Scott Malchus reflects on the original film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” in this week’s Basement Songs.
In the last installment of her Best Original Song special series, Kelly Stitzel takes a look at the year in which Dylan won an Oscar and BjÁ¶rk brought the fashion crazy.
David Gray – Babylon k.d. lang – The Consequences of Falling Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise – Baby Train – I Am Tori Amos – 1000 Oceans.mp3 Jonny Lang – Breakin’…
The Internet moves fast. Here are a few of our favorite links from the week that was: Why the afterlife is box office poison [Wired] Lauded Wainwright: Box set to…
Time once more for Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some of which may be sitting…
In between more timely projects and content, the Popdose staff are dissecting albums from 1991, which happens to be one of my favorite years of music. It was also…
What do you do with a seriously weird music video? Make it weirder, that’s what you do!
Radiohead dropped a new album last week. So why aren’t we even breaking a sweat over it?
Warner Bros. has to remind us that Hall Pass was made by the guys that brought you There’s Something About Mary. What if the promotions department had to tell you the truth?
The question’s not whether Gaga’s latest sounds like Madonna’s hit. The question is whether she meant it or whether it was just born that way.
This week Ken Shane brings us a non-disco hit from one of the dance genre’s most iconic bands.
Scott Malchus takes a look at the ABC family series, “Huge” that just received a DVD release.
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Bob Cashill goes on the road again with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as they hit Blu-ray.
Actor Larry Thor sings a fun collection of children’s songs about neighborhood fights, Gimme Pigs, and riding dinosaurs.
Don’t think sorry’s easily said, unless you’re guilty. Popdose ponders this latest round of plagiarism speculation.
Chris Holmes offers the second part of his overview of thrash-metal legend Megadeth’s discography, covering 1997’s Cryptic Writings through 2009’s Endgame.
E.T. is back, and his family is thirsty for blood. Popdose checks out this fantastic fake trailer.
Dave Steed reaches the letter R this week on his quest to have you listen to every crappy 80’s song ever!
Another death-of-radio story? Hardly. Ted Asregadoo talks to Scott McWilliams of Party 934, a new kind of radio station that aims to transform the way we listen to the radio.
Dave Steed reviews some more headbangers and still wishes nÁ¼-metal never existed.
Part 13: Private Salt’s Accompanied Spades Unexclusive Solo (2001) What does the title mean? If it isn’t already obvious, my idea for this album name came from the impression that…
Popdose welcomes Michael Sadler back to the band Saga.