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Soundtrack Saturday: Special Anniversary Video Mix Edition
Soundtrack Saturday turns two with a very special video retrospective. Join the celebration!
Read More »Bootleg City: It Is Not Matt Wardlaw’s Destiny to Experience the Triumph of Victory
In addition to letting perennial electoral bridesmaid Matt Wardlaw write a chapter of my autobiography in exchange for bailing me out of an Arizona jail, I had to agree to give him “equal time”
Read More »Bootleg City: Blue Angel in New York City, February ’81
A few months ago I wrote a couple pieces praising the dearly departed Spectrum in Philadelphia. But ever since, my karma’s been out of whack. See, I grew up just outside of New York
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: Jason’s Holiday Edition
Despite what you’ve seen every day so far this month, I really do enjoy listening to holiday music. In fact, I’m downright obsessive about collecting it, rating it in iTunes, and categorizing it into
Read More »Random Play: Alvin and the Chipmunks
When the 2007 live action-animation hybrid movie of Alvin and the Chipmunks made $60 million in its opening weekend, it took people by surprise. Hadn’t the besweatered musical trio outstayed its welcome by just
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: Special Anniversary Mix Edition
Has it already been a year since Kelly Stitzel joined the Popdose staff? It has indeed -- and she's assembled a special anniversary Soundtrack Saturday column to celebrate
Read More »Bootleg City: “Vin Scelsa’s Live at Lunch,” 6/28/00 (Pt. 3)
Here are some fun facts about singer-songwriter Jules Shear: 1. He’s from Pittsburgh. So is actor Jeff Goldblum, who stars in a 2006 pseudo-documentary called Pittsburgh that chronicles his homecoming performance in a production
Read More »Bootleg City: “Vin Scelsa’s Live at Lunch,” 6/28/00 (Pt. 2)
In part two of this flashback edition of Vin Scelsa’s Live at Lunch, singer-songwriter Jules Shear talks about the R&B inspiration for “If She Knew What She Wants,” how he feels about artists licensing
Read More »No Concessions: The Sherman Brothers’ Spoonful of Bitterness
Here it is, not even June and with a case of blockbuster fatigue already. Pro and con, the fourth (fourth!) Terminator movie has already been dissected and dismantled around here, and the notion of
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 52
Dave Steed's Bottom Feeders celebrates its one-year anniversary this week -- and we're at the letter L, which means Lorenzo Lamas and Patti goddamn LaBelle were invited to the party
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