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Top Of The Charts – February 6, 2012
The top of the charts this week. Next week, most will be on milk cartons
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Greatest Un-Hits: Porcelain Black’s “This Is What Rock n’ Roll Looks Like” (2011)
Being influenced by and being extremely similar to are two different things, separated by a thin line. The biggest musical success of the last few years has been Lady Gaga. While her music is
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Popdose On Kirkus Reviews: Sugar Dreams and The Art Of Will Cotton
Artist Will Cotton makes modern pinup art with a backward glancing aesthetic. Lindsay Lohan is making things worse. How do they intersect
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Paula Abdul’s “I’m Just Here for the Music” (2009)
When pop stars turn 40, the palm flower crystal embedded in their hand turns black, indicating its time for them to go away forever. By and large, there’s little market for a middle aged
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Graham Parker’s “Local Girls” (1979)
Not that it’s a bad thing at all, but Graham Parker sounds almost exactly like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Jam, and Marshall Crenshaw. Parker had been toiling as a quirky and
Read More »Jesus of Cool: The Misfit Empowerment Project
Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" exemplifies the shift among pop's reigning divas -- from P!nk to Katy to Ke$ha -- away from self-aggrandizement and toward messages of self-help aimed directly at their audiences. Jon
Read More »Popdose 2010: Will Harris’s Top Albums and Songs
I don’t even know why I’m here, frankly. I think it’s pretty well documented that all I do these days is write about television and interview people for Bullz-Eye ’til the cows come home.
Read More »Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy's cleavage and other
Read More »CD Review: Kiss, “Sonic Boom”
Any good label manager would tell you: don’t name your album something a reviewer could turn into a catchy, snarky counterpoint. But as we know far too well, most of the labels are hanging
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