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The 5th Dimension had one of their biggest hits with a Bacharach-David classic
Often, the most original and inventive sounds come from mashing up styles and genres. Brooklyn-based musician Conchita Campos prides herself on her artistic fluidity, moving with ease between jazz, bossa…
Jeff Beck is my one guitar hero; that’s a known fact. I have all his albums, right through to Flash and have tried to incorporate some of his sound into…
Five years may be a long time to wait for a new release from Deb Talan and Steve Tannen — better known as The Weepies — but there probably aren’t…
I haven’t watched an episode of HBO’s Girls since the end of season one. After that wonderful first year, my HBO subscription ran out and other TV series grabbed my…
Three years ago, New York City-based musician and promoter Aleksi Glick got the idea to merge upcoming bands with a unique, untapped venue — a hostel. Partnering with Hostelling International on…
Los Angeles-based trio Wake Up Lucid unleashes their fourth offering, a 6-song E.P., Gone With The Night and it’s a slab of good old fashioned “super-rock”; a blinding flash of…
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Friday Five : |ˈfrÄ«dÄ – fÄ«v| : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button in iTunes and share the first five tracks and thought for…
This is excellent – and not in my usual line of musical vision. Tuneful, haunting, melodic, catchy and reminiscent in the best possible way of what I loved in the…
For the latest chapter in the ongoing saga that is la telanovela Calexico — Edge of the Sun, out now on Anti- Records — let us begin at the finale and…
This could be one of the scariest movies you see this year.
“Will It Go Round In Circles” was one of the biggest hits in a legendary career
Welcome to Popdose‘s latest installment of Welcome to Pittsburgh, part of your balanced, nutritious breakfast. It seems spring has sprung, though it snowed here on Earth Day — Mother Nature keeping…
Traditionally, the colors blue and gray have been associated with the military because of the colors of the Union and Confederate uniforms in the Civil War. Perhaps that’s why it’s exceptionally…
New York native Jeff Le Blanc has had a busy year; not only did he collaborate with Liz Longley after her latest release (reviewed here on Popdose) on this new…
Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the latest Constellation offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the second full-length since its much anticipated 2010 reformation, hits all the right notes and…
From the mid-70s to the late 80s, John Carpenter was an industry unto himself, variously writing, directing, producing, scoring and/or appearing in a string of well-executed genre entertainments that relied…
Sarah Vaughan was called “the divine one” in reference to her infamous voice, which spanned ranges as easily as it did arpeggios. Even today, she’s heralded as one of the…
After building firm, yet humble roots in the Midwest, soulful indie pop singer-songwriter Boh Doran headed East and formed Milly Beau. Four capable years later, it was time for a fresh start. Boh…
Imaginary Future is really the vehicle for Jesse Epstein, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter. Sunlight, the newest album, is his 4th and it’s a concept piece. For the first time in…
My Popdose op-ed on how to build a better record store day turned into a bit of a lightning rod when Salon picked it up and added an incendiary new…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
A staple on the LA music scene, darkening the doorway of legendary venues like the Whisky and the Roxy, singer, songwriter, and guitarist TJ Doyle combines his unique brand of…
Another study (as opposed to pop history biography) that examines the qualities of the bands that came to the United States in the wake of the February 1964 arrival of…
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Okay, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: what do you get when you take five former residents of the USSR, put them in a band, and move…
Ken Shane pays tribute to Percy Sledge, the great Southern soul singer who we lost this week
Batman and his son duke it out in the latest Warner Brothers animated feature.