Anyone missing a great crime drama now that Justified and Breaking Bad have driven off into the sunset, seek out Fargo and enjoy the ride.
It was a little under two years ago guitarist-turned-oncologist Karen Haglof released her initial bow, Western Holiday. That album was the soundtrack to my trip through Georgia and now, she’s…
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Popdose’s new podcast Fuzzy Turkey Sandwich: It is penicillin for your earholes.
Breaking news on nominated films and performers on home video.
Chicago has just been an endless wealth of musical riches for the last two years with new bands/performers cropping up regularly (certainly to this writer) and here again is a…
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Natalie Cole emerged from a large shadow to become a star in her own right
Before there was rock, there was country. And before there was country, there was an ad placed in the Bristol Herald Courier on Sunday, July 24, 1927. The Clark-Jones-Sheeley Company,…
From the opening of “Black Taxi Car”, there is a fair amount of “real American” inflections of Brett Newski’s music – a little Springsteen, a little Mellencamp, a little Fogerty. …
Since the last year-plus saw the return (in a big way) of early ’80’s British post-punk legends The Pop Group, it’s only fitting that more long-lost pieces of their puzzle…
The great Dan Baird has been blasting out some of rock and roll’s finest jams for more than 30 years. He joins us to talk about his new album and current U.S. tour dates with Homemade Sin.
You’d probably recognize Billy Crain’s guitar before you’d recognize him. That’s not a slight against Crain; on the contrary, he’s shared the spotlight with the Dixie Chicks, the Outlaws, and…
Ten years is a long time between albums for anyone; it’s a lifetime in music. But the forthcoming new album from Bob Hillman, Lost Soul, will have been well worth…
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Another group of solid songs featuring Eskobar, Galactic, Chaos Emeralds, and Matthew Logan Vasquez
The search for the Great American Novel is a foolish one.
Typhoid Rosie, rising like a phoenix straight outta Brooklyn, recalls a feistier rock & roll yesteryear when the likes of Joan Jett, Suzi Quatro and Kim Carnes ruled the charts instead of…
Bryan Cranston becomes controversial writer Dalton Trumbo in this new biopic.
This new album from Bob Woodruff is only his fourth in a 22-year recording career and it’s a fine statement as to what patience and skill in songwriting can do. …
Ian Astbury takes us inside the career of the Cult and Hidden City, their latest album.
The Fantastic Johnny C scored with a funky hit in ’67
Despite hailing from Spain, Stormy Mondays have completed some ultra-American milestones: sharing a mic with Bruce Springsteen (in New Jersey, no less), playing at one incarnation of the Woodstock festival,…
J.D. Souther’s debut solo album could (at least the argument is there) be looked at as the “lost Eagles album” – between the debut and the more countrified Desperado. But…
Lots of music lovers would declare soul dead, or at least convalescing. (Unless you count artists like Bruno Mars who meld soul with funk, pop, and hip-hop.) Lots of artists…
“Steve Jobs” is one of 2015’s best and most overlooked films.