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“Insanely Great”: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
The worlds of technology and popular culture lost a true visionary yesterday with the death of Steve Jobs at age 56 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. We remember the man’s countless contributions to
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Steve Jobs, The Winningest Loser
At the announcement of his death, it was important to recount the "failures" of Steve Jobs
Read More »50CCM50 Giveaways: The Winners
As promised, here are the winners for our 50CCM50 giveaways! Rob Hire, from the Great White North, won the Peacock/Heard vinyls… Jonathan Henschel won the Phil Keaggy CDs… Michial Farmer won the iTunes mix.
Read More »Product Review: NuForce Icon uDAC-2
Since the advent of recorded music, there’s been a more or less constant tension between the audiophile segment of the marketplace and the great unwashed hordes of transistor-toting plebes who have always purchased most
Read More »Popdose Roundtable: Singledom, or How I Learned to Stop Recording and Love the Download
The Popdose Staff mulls over the continuing slow-motion fall of the "record album."
Read More »Numberscruncher: Who Needs the Radio?
When I was a kid, I had to listen to whatever the DJ picked. One of the odder decade-end lists was Nielsen’s list of the most-played singles on radio between 2000 and 2009. It’s
Read More »New Music: The Beatles, “The Beatles Remastered”
As a consumer, viewer, and overall commentator of pop culture, I find myself looking for those dreaded paradigm shifts, those touchstone moments where I can say, “This is the moment everything changed.” After all,
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 30
You know, I don’t rant in public too often (yeah, right), but I’ve been getting really annoyed with iTunes and my iPod lately, so I think it’s time I let it out. You see,
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The End of the Album
Okay, this is how I think it’s going to go down: before the end of the year, a major player in the music industry will announce that it’ll no longer sign bands to make
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