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The Popdose Interview: Jon Bard and Bruce Brodeen of Rock and Roll Tribe
New media tends to identify itself as a youth market, and is very self-aware of this. So too, a person of a certain, shall we say, vintage might feel uncomfortable popping around Facebook (and
Read More »Political Culture: Everybody Into The Conflictinator!
Chastened by Jon Stewart, if not the midterm election results, Jon Cummings invites Popdose readers to Be Their Own Pundits and pontificate on our new politics
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The Kids Are Not Alright
Sometimes nostalgia can sicken a person. Here’s an example: remember when you could get into a fight in school and only get your nose broken? Now you could get your head blown off for
Read More »Harper’s Index: November 2010
Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Date that the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon, changed its name to Tigress Books: 8/24/10 Nils Lofgren – Bein’ Angry Chance
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… Unemployment
Dear readers, I’ve never consciously steered you wrong before and I don’t intend to start now, so we’ll make the declaration right up front that I am being compensated for this post by Technorati
Read More »Numberscruncher: Kickstart My Record
Musicians and writers used to be able to rely on record companies and publishers for advances, but those are smaller and harder for mere mortals to get than in times past. And, many bands
Read More »Political Culture: How to Take a “Leap of Faith” … and Fall Flat on Your Ass
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and "Glee" rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts
Read More »Numberscruncher: The Long Tail and The Big Head
The shift to electronic media not only means that fewer CDs and paperbacks will end up in thrift shops, but it also means that we can forget about that crazy time when owning a
Read More »Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy's cleavage and other
Read More »Numberscruncher: Burn This Koran
Nothing makes clear the sorry state of civics education in the United States than all of the kerfuffle over mosques and Korans. Here’s all you need to know: If it is political or religious
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