“There were a bunch of years there where I kind of lived in tents and people’s closets.” If you’ve been a hardcore Popdose reader for any length of time (and…
A look at seven musicians who overcome serious injury or illness and rose to the creative heights of their profession.
This week marks the true beginning of the end. At last, we have reached the final disc of this seven-disc compilation. There will be time for sober reflection later; for…
So the troubled B-movie-homage-that’s-also-a-B-movie The Canyons is finally coming out this week, starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen. I think at some point we all thought that porn would lure…
One of the most distinctive and prolific guitarists of his generation, Bill Frisell doesn’t seem to play as much as he seems to exist as an effortless gateway — whether…
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Malina Moye is a guitar goddess with pretty good taste in music. Check out her Desert Island Discs!
“Loves people, hates shoes, makes music.” How’s that for a manifesto? On the other hand, those six words don’t really sum up Joy Ike‘s music — but then, you’d need…
Struggles with substance abuse are so common in the rock world as to be cliche. Repeats of VH1’s Behind the Music or a skim through any rock biography will attest…
“I’m trying to write songs, not create a sound.” Jessi Phillips’ guiding philosophy for Eight Belles ought to resonate strongly with regular Popdose followers.
This week we get to the entire letter of Q and move onto R with Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine.
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On a cool night back in May, I ran into Howard Kaylan at the opening of Graham Nash’s photography exhibition at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. We…
Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of punk powerhouse Against Me!, may be a woman in transition — taking the brave and inspiring journey from male to female — but…
Can you make two pop records devoted to the sport of cricket?
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday.  Click the pic to enlarge. Stuff don’t change, do it? Tell us in the…
It’s high summer, and we’re in the midst of wedding season. And if you’re going to a wedding this summer, then there’s a chance you’re going to find yourself doing…
Since maybe late February (when it leaked online), my favorite record of the year has been the Flaming Lips’ The Terror. The record’s unyielding tone of desperation and desolation appeals…
The Popdose Staff uses the event of being an extra to extol the virtues of John Candy.
One of the great songs of the ’80s has a classic pedigree
Bob Dylan has long been a dusty bitch, and, indeed, it’s one of his more enduring qualities. So it’s not out of character that Dylan will be releasing a new…
Most unfortunate pop culture trends from the ’90s are dead and gone, but here are nine that live on like annoying zombies.
As we wrap up Disc Six and head for the final reckoning, we’ll just quote an email comment from our own David Medsker, when he got a look at this…
Amethyst zooms in and out with might and musical muscle, sporting an all-killer-no-filler approach that improves upon the band’s idiosyncratic 14-track debut.
A lot can happen from the time a script is turned in to a studio to the time the film actually goes into production. Actors are cast and then recast,…
For trumpeter Etienne Charles, whose dynamic, genre-bending new album Creole Soul arrives today, this project wasn’t about innovation. That’s too exterior. “It’s the music of who I am,” Charles tells…
The Boy With Astronaut Eyes finds The Purrs in a particularly joyful state of mind, and sounding perhaps the most invigorated and pumped up they’ve ever been.
Platters That Matter podcasters brave the summer heat for Ben Folds Five live.