November 4, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
This week in Pop Goes the World, David Medsker takes us to church -- sort of -- with a look at a track from Derek Webb's latest album....
October 21, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
This week, David Medsker reaches the third and final disc of the NME's 40th birthday compilation, featuring covers both ridiculous and...
October 7, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
David Medsker has returned with the second disc of the NME's wonderfully strange covers compilation, featuring the biggest artists of the...
September 23, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
In 1992, to celebrate their 40th birthday, NME enlisted 40 bands to cover Number One hits by other artists, and the results were nothing if...
September 9, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
That sound you just heard was the hearts of a million power pop fans skipping a beat. There probably isn’t anything that happened to...
August 26, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
This album and band brings out my innermost old codger (which isn’t nearly as inner as it should be), because it has me telling...
August 12, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
It's time for another week of Pop Goes the World -- and a look at what David Medsker calls "the best album Crowded House never made."...
July 29, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
Whatever you may think of Frogstomp (1995), the oh-so-timely slice of grunge lite that turned three Australian teenagers into superstars,...
July 15, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
The ’90s were dark times for fans of the punk rockers-turned synth soul popsters Scritti Politti. They — and by...
July 1, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
The sophomore album. I hear it’s tricky. So begins the second and final chapter on our tribute to one of Boston’s finest. It...
June 17, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
I’ve written literally hundreds of pieces for various web sites and newspapers, but nothing I have ever written has produced as much...
June 3, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
To say that I have a soft spot for musical melodrama would be a great understatement. “Unfinished Sympathy” by Massive Attack,...
May 20, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
Our Lord Jefito surely has a dozen stories on Giant Records and the litany of mistakes they made as a company – he seems to have at...
May 6, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
He describes their music as "like oxygen," so it's only fitting that David Medsker should devote an edition of his Pop Goes the World...
April 8, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
Props to Will Harris for bringing this Danish group to my attention. God, I miss bands like this. Let’s not mince words about the...
March 25, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
The fantasy of owning a time machine is a fun one, isn’t it? Most people would go back and stop Hitler. Patton Oswalt would go to...
March 11, 2009• Music, Pop Goes the World
Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me....
