Forget Times Square, forget the BCS, forget Iowa, forget Dave and JayÁ¢€™s returns last Wednesday: 2008 officially gets underway Monday night, when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert return to Comedy…
… names. Or, to be more precise, this is about the importance of names and why it’s so difficult to pull a really good one out of the air and…
Welcome to The Three Strike Rule, the Popdose television column. If you’re reading this live, you must either be a really big fan of the site, or you don’t have…
Mr. Encrypto – Silver Chain from Secret Identity Crisis (2003) Eugene Edwards – It Doesn’t Get Better Than This from My Favorite Revolution (2005) Harry Nilsson – Don’t Forget Me…
Greetings, Popdosers. Lord Jefito has bestowed me with the honor of running the weekly shake-ya-ass column, and I, for lack of a better word, am positively geeked out by it….
UPDATE: Longer clips have been added for songs 1, 3, 9, and 13. Hey folks. This is the first of a planned series of games of Name That Tune. Each…
Mainstream Rock: Steve Miller Band, “I Want to Make the World Turn Around” (1986) Scott: Man, I really like this tune. Its moodiness and slinky backbeat really resonate. His guitar…
My friend Solly came down last weekend on a miniature vacation from Seattle. She was unlucky enough to have the rain follow her down and catch up to her by…
This is a pretty vast digression from the concerts I’m normally going to review here. For one thing, I don’t normally patronize “the arts.” For another, the bands I see…
“Who cares what I think? I’m not the president. I’m just a storyteller, man.” So says Bob Dylan — or, at least, Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn as Bob Dylan…
Canadian Nick Gilder had a penchant for writing sugary-sweet pop/rock songs about underage hookers/street trash/what have you for a couple of years in the mid-Á¢€Ëœ70s with CanadaÁ¢€â„¢s glam answer to…
In New Hampshire, we’ve been shot up good with presidential political shrapnel for more than a year. We get canvassed on our home and cell phones, we get out-of-state college…
What is a basement song? It has nothing to do with the Basement Tapes. I can only think of a couple Dylan and /or Band songs that may qualify as…
Chuck Mangione – Love Notes (1982) purchase this album (Amazon) In all the months since Jefitoblog bit the dust, I don’t think a week has gone by that I haven’t…
With Popdose having just rolled off the showroom floor all shiny and new, still full of that Á¢€Å“new car smell,Á¢€ I am chuffed to the Á¢€Ëœnads to be a part…
Before heading over to the Troubadour for the Matt Nathanson show I took my girlfriend out for an Á¢€Å“appreciation nightÁ¢€ to thank her for enduring some horrendous traffic the previous…
The first in a series where we take a band everyone’s heard of Á¢€” whether via constant critical acclaim (the Velvet Underground) or just one huge, annoying hit (um, the…
Greetings, Videots! Apologies for the long delay between transmissions, but apparently, some strange things were afoot at Mission Control — the S.S. M.T.V. wasn’t able to raise anyone at the…
Welcome to it, Popsters! Each week I hope to delight you and yours with some musical goodness mixed the old fashioned way: with thought given to the song order in…
Welcome to the first in a series of posts designed to promote the music of Rod Stewart from the 1980s and onward. We begin by….Wait….where are you going?
By 1989, The Cars were history and leader Ric Ocasek embarked as a full-time solo artist, flexing his Roxy Music/Iggy Pop/Suicide influences to the hilt with a more commercial pop…
Act I: Johnny Cougar Chestnut Street Incident (1976) purchase this album (Amazon) I remember finding a cassette of this album back in the ’80s and enjoying the hell out of…
It’s here! It’s finally fucking here! Hello and welcome to the official launch of Popdose, the site some of you have been waiting for/predicting would never happen for almost a…
Happy Mellowmas, everyone! Today, we celebrate many, many things. We celebrate Christmas, but we also celebrate the official Final Day Of Mellowmas 2007. We celebrate the fact that you made…
I love Ringo. Unashamedly. While the other solo Beatles get all the accolades and major hits, I’ve always been partial to the laid back, laconic goofiness and self-deprecating pop of…
New Wave slammed headfirst into the ’60s girl group aesthetic and out came Get Wet, a duo led by the chirpy vocals of Sherri Beachfront (really?) aided by songwriter Zecca…
Just a week left until Christmas, everybody – as if all this terrible music wasn’t a nagging reminder! Neil Diamond – Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (download or stream below)…
Happy Seventeenth Day of Mellowmas! Just eight days until Christmas…and then this will all be over. Until then, just grin and bear it while Jeff and I devolve into perverse…
Day Sixteen of Mellowmas is an odd day. Somehow, I wound up defending Celine Dion. I think it’s exhaustion. Celine Dion – The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Blah Blah Blah) (download…