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Desert Island Discs with Patrick Joseph

Jeff Giles March 23, 2011 0

If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t a fair question, but

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Here’s Something Else!: More Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick Of Yet

Something Else! Reviews March 22, 2011 4

The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles can make for difficult wading when you’re trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Well, the movement you need is tucked away inside the

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Greatest Un-Hits: Yoko Ono’s “Walking on Thin Ice” (1981)

Brian Boone March 9, 2011 7

This column usually presents semi-obscure or forgotten songs that should have been hits. “Walking on Thin Ice” is different, because if you’re the kind of person with an obsessive enough interest in music to

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Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 13

Mark Feldman February 22, 2011 15

Part 13: Private Salt’s Accompanied Spades Unexclusive Solo (2001) What does the title mean?  If it isn’t already obvious, my idea for this album name came from the impression that I think Flaming Pie

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Here’s Something Else!: Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick of Yet

Something Else! Reviews February 22, 2011 4

The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles sometimes makes for difficult wading when you're trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Here are a handful of deeper cuts that we're not

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Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 12

Mark Feldman February 1, 2011 20

Part 12: Flaming Pie (1997) This is where we officially get into the Beatles’ modern era.  By this point, the Fabs are a band which fully admits to being less cutting edge than they

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Dw. Dunphy On… J-Pop-a-Rama!

Dw. Dunphy January 13, 2011 6

Popdose presents four examples of Japanese power pop, courtesy of super-blog Power Pop Overdose

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Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 albums, Part 7

Mark Feldman November 16, 2010 10

Part 7: Rockestra (1980) As the ‘70s drew to a close, our alternate-reality Beatles found themselves still mostly on top of the world, albeit with more company than they had in the ‘60s.  They

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I’ve Got Reissues: The “It’s Halloween, I’ve got my Bob Dylan mask on!” Late Edition

Joseph Jon Lanthier November 5, 2010 2

Joseph Jon Lanthier rounds up reissues and remasters for the month of October 2010. Among the rambunctious little doggies lassoed are the Apple Records Box Set and Brute Force's Confections of Love

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Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 6

Mark Feldman October 26, 2010 25

What if the Beatles stayed together -- and the best of their solo work ended up on Fab Four albums

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