It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
When singer/songwriter Jesse Belvin died in a car accident on February 6, 1960, he became the first artist of the rock ‘n’ roll era to join the as-yet-unnamed 27 Club….
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. What are your coworkers doing to cultivate an…
What can you learn from a 944-page book on the Beatles? Let’s start with these seven things.
Marvin Gaye’s ’77 hit was huge, it’s influence even greater
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for January 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
This isn’t a proper obituary of Pete Seeger. If that’s what you want, please read Popdose founder Jeff Giles’ beautifully written retrospective over at Ultimate Classic Rock. Instead, I wanted…
Upbeat piano-pop by native New Yorker Ryan Hobler is my nod for “Single Of The Week” – catchy, well-crafted. Airy and light with that early ’70’s Harry Nilsson/Gilbert O’Sullivan pop-ness…
Last April, Eric Clapton held the latest installment of the Crossroads Guitar Festival at New York’s Madison Square Garden. We’ve teamed up with Rhino to give away a 2-Blu-ray/2-CD combo…
This is Ponderous, Doo Doo Brown and poppin’ coochies. We have the makings of a fantastic week.
There’s a bittersweet feeling you get when watching the sweet and charming performance by James Gandolfini in Enough Said.
Reunions are the Hostess cakes of the music world — they often sound like a treat, but by the time they’re finished, you’re left feeling dissatisfied and a little unclean….
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. What’s the best Tim Burton movie? Tell us…
There are certainties in this universe and, to cop a phrase from that shaman Donald Rumsfeld, known knowns. Time will accumulate in seconds and minutes and hours. People will be…
This 432-page tome is a loving tribute to City Gardens, the legendary (to many) but often overlooked club in Trenton, New Jersey that was crucial to the then-burgeoning punk-to-hardcore punk…
Two rising young stars headline The Spectacular Now, a poignant film based on the novel of the same name by Tim Tharp. Miles Teller, who’s drawing raves for his turn…
This wonderful documentary tells the story of the U.K.-based label which gave the world “indie” music at its defined best and a slew of bands that have now become legendary….
There hasn’t been much to get excited about at the record store this year, until now. On Tuesday, January 21, three of the best full throttle rock records of the…
Bottom Feeders tends to celebrate the bad more than the good but is this week the worst ever?
We here at Popdose love to provide to our readers, we love to give. And nothing says “giver” than a theatrical poster of the latest horror film and a condom….
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. What happened the last time you went to…
Coming to you in living color, from the heart of the global communications network to the darkest recesses of your imagination — this is the Popdose Conceptual Theater of the…
Shirley Brown scored big but it was too late for Stax
Lee Daniels, the eclectic director whose previous films include the grim Oscar-winner, Precious, and the pulpy The Paperboy takes on the historical epic in his latest film. Lee Daniels’ The…
The art of film involves many collaborators, the most important of whom — as I’ve written before — is the audience. We are more than passive receivers. It is we,…
When when of my favorite new bands, Field Music, went on their first hiatus in mid-2008, David and Peter Brewis made it clear that they were far from done making…