Singer/songwriter Richard Shindell appeared recently in Massachusetts
This album, of which a performance called “Look Behind You” is based around, is a highly personal memoir by Irish singer/songwriter SteafÁ¡n Hanvey. Released in 2013, Nuclear Family is about…
In the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 boxset you’ll find a teensploitation flick, a sword and sandal classic, a loose head on the loose movie, and one of the most requested MST3K episodes. Read all about it here!
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Joggers are the real terrorists, right? Tell us…
Based on the French-Canadian hit, Starbuck, writer/director Ken Scott’s Delivery Man is a heartwarming film that packs more drama than comedy it in its brisk 105 minutes. Vince Vaughn reminds…
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for March 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month….
If Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Tom Waits, it might grow up to sound like Luke Elliot‘s “Virginia”:…
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
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. Are you tired of the song? Tell us…
Holly George Warren did an exemplary job of writing about Alex Chilton, the frontman of ’60’s hitmakers The Box Tops, the ramshackle director of his solo career and of course,…
This turned out a lot better than I expected. I’ve always had a weird sort of crush on Joan Didion – or at least the twentysomething ingenue she comes across…
It began in a barbershop and became the Parliament-Funkadelic juggernaut
My very first KI2Y column on PopDose was this clever bit about how rights of publicity might attach to dead celebrities. Do rights to famous folk’s images survive their tragic demise, or…
I keep getting lucky in hearing melodic, thoughtful and American music, which has been my taste for a while. Yet again, a warm new voice is heard in Noah Gundersen,…
Better late than never, that’s what we always say here at the Comrades podcast. Okay, maybe just Malchus says that; Jeff is a little more punctual. If Scott would just…
This June, a group of four excellent singer-songwriters will launch a small tour of the East Coast under the name ”The Parlor Sessions” (dates below). To promote the tour, they’ve…
The music on this album is fantastic. Great sounding; great arrangements, so many delicious nuances in each track – a gloriously lush album. Good, strong lyrics abound – these are…
A teenage, “hard rock” band – well, yes. This Southern California quartet delivers a strong 5-song mini-album with some nicely heavy numbers and good production. There’s a very ’70’s feel…
The final installment of Bottom Feeders is here with Weird Al, Trisha Yearwood and of course a little ZZ Top to end it.
The new album Gravitas features a sound closer to “classic” Asia.
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. You know this guy, right? Tell us in…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Wherein three Popdose staff members reveal previously unpublished correspondence between drumming legends Neil Peart and Peter Criss.
Being that we (us, being Allison Johnelle Boron and Rob Ross, respectively, both of Popdose) were at City Winery in New York on Sunday night (March 16th) to see the…
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. You know this guy, right? Tell us in…
Life in a Blender, the absurdist New York band fronted by Don Ralph since 1987, are getting set to release their ninth studio album, ”We Already Have Birds that Sing,”…
(or “What’s it all about, Stevie?”) “I’m just a prisoner…OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!” Bruce Springsteen’s been screaming that line for decades, and this time he’s screaming it in Cape Town,…
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom strives to be the definitive biography of the great Nelson Mandela’s life. With two strong leads in Idris Elba as Mandela and Naomie Harris as…