The Power is Yours! Scott Malchus reviews the DVD release of “Captain Planet and The Planeteers: Season One.”
He’s never been a household name, but Steve Conn has produced, played with, and written for a long list of artists over the last several decades, and if you’re a…
Or, to borrow an album title from the Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful. In 1990, Joe Jackson had just signed a spiffy new deal with Virgin Records after spending 10…
Nathan, Michael, Shawn and Wanya: four names that were on everyone’s mind 20 years ago. Dave Steed takes a look back at his awkward teen years and nights spent alone with Boyz II Men’s Cooleyhighharmony.
Paul Simon – You’re The One Joan Osborne – Spooky Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis Lucinda Williams – Can’t Let Go David Gray – Babylon Sheryl Crow – Home…
Dave Steed checks out what’s new in the world of badass-ity with new rockers from Andrew W.K., KMFDM, Samael, Wormrot and more. Rock on!
I’m a reluctant runner. Actually, I hate running. I run nonetheless because it is an efficient way to exercise, and I survive thanks to a little MP3 player and its…
This one’s way overdue, I know, so I’ll skip the preamble and proceed with the amble. ANYA’S GHOST Script/Art: Vera Brosgol First Second Books, $19.99; Available June 7; preorder from…
The Popdose staff says farewell to Steve Carell by counting down the best Michael Scott moments from NBC’s “The Office.”
Seeing the right Facebook post at the right time led Ken Shane to a very special Internet radio show. His Saturday nights have never been the same.
Every music movement or sea change has that one person that influenced the thing in the first place, but never quite got to cash in when the people were finally…
This week’s ’80s Dance Party is brought to you by heartbreak, passion, longing, lace and dark lipstick.
If you were to ask what makes Greg Rucka a strong writer, my answer would be that it is everything that he leaves out of his stories. It’s not that…
Kelly Stitzel remembers punk icon Poly Styrene, and shares the interview she gave Popdose before her untimely death.
Dave Steed finishes out the letter S this week as he looks at songs from Sting, Rod Stewart, Styx and more rockers from the ’80s.
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It takes a real man to transform from a pop star into an action hero, but Luke Goss has done it. Good for him! (We still asked him about being in Bros, though.)
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has taken his share of knocks over the years. Some of those, in the interest of full disclosure, came from us.
A new recovered tape that had been lost for 40 years provides compelling insight into Bob Dylan’s earliest days as a songwriter and performer.
I was recently interviewed, along with my fellow Popdose Podcast co-hosts Dave Lifton and Jason Hare, by the Brown Tweed Society — I imagine the article will run whenever they…
Yes, he talks about the Brat Pack. Yes, he talks about who he slept with. Strangely, however, he never mentions “The Lyon’s Den” or “Dr. Vegas.”
Berkeley-based singer/songwriter/NorCal girl Ash Reiter radiates characteristically casual grace in this month’s Parlour to Parlour.
In interest of full disclosure here’s the conflict of interest statement Popdose Legal forces us to write on occasions like these: Fellow music critics use my Smithereens addiction as a…
The record companies decided to fight the scourge of free music downloads with…twice-as-expensive discs. Let us explain.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: he’s not just about Lady Gaga parodies, you know. Join Popdose as we look back at 20 of Al’s most memorable original compositions.
Garrow’s Law was an unexpected pleasure when I sat down to watch it, one that exceeded my expectations for both period dramas and lawyer shows. Set in 18th Century England,…
The Neville Brothers – Voodoo Howie Day – Collide Robert Plant – Another Tribe Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine Dave Matthews – Everyday Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too…
Metallica, Slayer. Slayer, Metallica. Carcass? Who comes out on top as Dave Steed’s favorite metal album of all time? Find out in the final edition of False Metal, Dead!
Dave Steed takes a look at everything badass in his latest weekly music series.
High Moon Records is having their launch party at The Roxy in LA on April 29. One lucky Popdose reader will be there, with a friend.