Stream Now: Rory Partin, “Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me”
You say “soulful big-band crooner,” and I say “There’s somewhere else I need to be right now” — most of the time, anyway. But Rory Partin is a happy exception:...
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Stream Now: Ryan Hobler, “All Along”
Ryan Hobler‘s “All Along” sounds like early morning sunlight through your bedroom window, with a haunting melody that moves with dreamlike grace — all of which is utterly appropriate, because...
Three High Octane New Records Battle For Super Tuesday Supremacy
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...
Breaking Good: January 2014′s Best FREE Music Downloads
In the era of Spotify, Noisetrade and YouTube, there are thousands of emerging bands and artists competing for your attention. Perhaps too many. Just because anyone with an iPad can...
The POPDOSE Premiere: Get Luckier, Get Looser with Qiet’s “Get Found”
As a budding music blogger (is it too pretentious to call myself a journalist?) I would love to become the industry’s go-to guy for fancy pants premieres and coveted exclusives. But once...
Ladies Night: Download These Essential New Tunes
In terms of bold, visionary, boundary-pushing pop music, 2013 pretty much belongs to the ladies. While the new albums by Lorde, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are getting the big...
M.I.A. ‘Come Walk With Me’: D.O.A. or OMG?
Holy Bucky Done Gun, has it really been 8 years since Mathangi ”Maya” Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A. first burst onto the scene with her Arular eargasm? For me, it was love at first sight. So much...
Stream Now: Orianthi’s Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks From ‘Hell’ (feat. Steven Tyler)
While most of America is still shell shocked by Miley Cyrus’s tongue, people with actual taste have been busy rocking out to Orianthi’s blistering third album, Heaven in this Hell....
Brady Harris Imagines an Americana Motorhead, Grace Jones and Blondie
Many great Hollywood Westerns were shot in the San Fernando Valley, so it almost seems fitting that an Americana/Texas/Country Rock tour de force like Brady Harris is actually encamped in...
‘Mad’ about De Verre: Alice Day Undresses The Year’s Steamiest Song (Free MP3)
A decade after Justin Timberlake brought the SexyBack, a new Southern California band, De Verre, takes the SexyHigher with their captivating debut single, ‘Mad’. Now if there’s one thing I...
Against Me! Give Away Truly Amazing ‘True Trans’ EP
Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of punk powerhouse Against Me!, may be a woman in transition — taking the brave and inspiring journey from male to female — but...
Download Now: Charli XCX drops a new EP for FREE
This summer, I’ve been so into the new Charli XCX album, True Romance, that I’ve all but given up listening to anything else. It’s the perfect forward-thinking retro 80′s goth...
U.S. Premiere: Caro Emerald ‘Pack Up The Louie’
Let’s begin with full disclosure, POPDOSE loves Caro Emerald. I discovered the Dutch salsa, jazz, mambo pop supernova while driving through Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2011 and interviewed her a year...
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Summer of Sequels: New Music From Popdose’s 7 Hot Ex Girlfriends (Free MP3′s)
POPDOSE doesn’t believe in a “one post stand”, so this week we’re drunk dialing some of the loveliest ladies we’ve ever featured in our “Download Now” and “The Popdose Interview”...
The Popdose Roundup: 13 Women You Must Hear in 2013 (Six Free MP3′s)
No offense to the fellas and your multi-platinum rock bands, chart-topping hip hop and country albums and ill-advised racist anti-racist collaborations; but when it comes to innovation, envelope pushing and...
Noelle Johnson’s ‘Beautiful Soul’ Tackles Healthy Body Image Issues, Beautifully
As part of an ongoing series, POPDOSE explores the positive portrayal of women in pop culture. Last year, we discussed how British teen pop star Cher Lloyd was strangely repackaged...
Popdose Exclusive World Premiere: Gabriella Cilmi ‘Vicious Love (Acoustic)’
Could this be the music geek equivalency of The Big Bang Theory? Last week, the breathtakingly beautiful (but smart as a whip, so there goes that analogy) Gabriella Cilmi befriended POPDOSE during...
Download Now: Brittany McDonald “Notice Me”
As Jermaine Stewart once so eloquently sang, “We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time.” Now, some 27 years later, Brittany McDonald sips the same...
The Ultimate Power Pop Roundup: 10 Essential Bands and FREE MP3s
Big hooks. Singalong choruses. Earworm melodies. Guitars. Handclaps. When these stars align, I think Power Pop. So, what bands will become the next Cheap Trick, Posies, Material Issue or Big Star?...
Download Now: Yulianna “Don’t Take Your Love Away”
One of the hottest topics debated around the POPDOSE roundtable is the severe lack of quality pop stars coming from Kazakhstan. Well, that’s all about to change with the February...
Soul Disciple Gedeon Luke Makes His Move
Gedeon Luke’s debut EP, Perfect Ain’t Perfect, strutted onto my “Best of 2012” list after only a few spins — ironically enough sharing the bill with the original Disciples of...
On The Road With Crushed Out… includes free travel music
The easiest way to get your ass handed to you in a bar is to tell a dude you have a crush on his wife. Unless that dude is Frank...
Countdown to Caro Emerald: Live in Los Angeles (Free REMIX)
POPDOSE favorite, Caro Emerald, has landed in America and as we speak is putting the finishing touches on her US Live debut. She will hit the stage at the El...
Download Now: Sebastian Mikael “Take Me Higher”
For 40 years, pop music has been Sweden’s top export. While the legacies of Ace of Base, Roxette and Europe might be widely debated around the POPDOSE forums, you can’t...
Download Now: James Levy and the Blood Red Rose (Interview and Free Songs)
James Levy is a gifted New York coffee house singer who clearly has friends in high places. Guy Berryman of Coldplay produced his fantastic album with duet partner Allison Pierce...
Download Now: Arrica Rose “Without My Love” Free MP3 (Folk • Dream Pop)
As we speak, singer/songwriter Arrica Rose, producer Dan Garcia, and a rotating musician collective known as the “…’s” (not to be confused with !!!) are burrowed away in Los Angeles...
Download Now: Cole DeGenova “Lovely Generation”
To say the shit’s about to get funky up in here is an understatement. “Lovely Generation” is a deep album cut from Another Country, the second album from Chicago...
Download Now: J.P. Rose “What If I Were You?”
J.P. Rose gave up the blustery winds of San Francisco, where he fronted electro/pop outfit Hot Challenge, for the sunny shores of Los Angeles. The easy, breezy, beautiful LA weather...
Download Now: Lauren Anatolia “Four Words”
Just about every make and model of record comes across the POPDOSE desk on any given day. Indie rock, ironic pop, singer/songwriter/barista, dubstep, emo, screamo, steampunk, aggro folk, R&B, EDM,...
Download Now: Asian She “Horrific Nightmare”
My gangsta rap-loving yogi wife and I usually have little common ground when it comes to music (80′s new wave, Royksopp, the Book of Mormon cast recording). Usually when I...
