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CD Review: Carter Burwell, “True Grit” Soundtrack

Dw. Dunphy January 17, 2011 0

Popdose.com's Dw. Dunphy takes a listen to Carter Burwell's score for the Coen Bros. adaptation of True Grit

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Desert Island Discs with Carey Ott

Jeff Giles January 4, 2011 6

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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CD Review: Miles Davis, “Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Edition”

Ken Shane August 31, 2010 2

Miles Davis once quipped that he had changed the course of jazz “four or five times.” If you know anything about jazz, and I don’t profess to know much, you know that it was

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Sugar Water: There’s Always a Riot Goin’ On

Robert Cass October 30, 2009 19

The following piece originally appeared as an entry in Popdose’s Most Disturbing Halloween EVER! series. “Everyday People” entered the Billboard Top 40 on January 4, 1969. Six weeks later it was the number-one song

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Mix Six: “MTV on the Radio”

Ted Asregadoo October 6, 2009 13

MTV did more than just feed Adam Curry's hairspray addiction -- it also broke Top 40 playlists wide open during the '80s. With his latest Mix Six, Ted Asregadoo looks back at some of

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White Label Wednesday: Artists United Against Apartheid, “Sun City”

David Medsker July 8, 2009 7

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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the rarest of breeds in the music world: the protest remix.It's unclear which is more inconceivable today: that a major label would release a stinging

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Cratedigger: Miles Davis, “E.S.P.”

Ken Shane May 16, 2009 8

Ken Shane is back with another week of Cratedigger, and this week's trip to the vinyl vaults produces a pair of jazz sides: Miles Davis' 1965 release, E.S.P.Read More »

Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 38

Dave Steed February 4, 2009 31

I’ve gotten bored with what I’ve been listening to lately, so recently I went back into my collection to dig out CDs I haven’t spun in a while, like De La Soul’s 3 Feet

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Song-Off: Rockets!

Popdose Staff August 19, 2008 11

—- Def Leppard – “Rocket” Herbie Hancock – “Rockit” Mojo: “The exception that proves the rule” is a cliche whose meaning completely eludes me. It’s like saying just once, we can trust Rush Limbaugh

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