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The Great Summer Movies: Keep Believing, Keep Pretending

The Great Summer Movies: Keep Believing, Keep Pretending

Matt Springer May 13, 2013 2

Summer movies usually demand a great suspension of disbelief. They’re heavy on special effects and deal with outlandish situations, whether superheroes and sci-fi or wacky gross-out extreme comedy. There is, perhaps, no greater suspension

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The Popdose 100: The Greatest Love Songs of All Time

The Popdose 100: The Greatest Love Songs of All Time

Popdose Staff February 14, 2012 34

Much like our 100 Greatest Covers post last year, this was a collaborative effort for the Popdose staff.  Although our list of nominees was a bit smaller – only 300 songs – the voting

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Popdose’s Top Albums (and more) of 2011

Popdose’s Top Albums (and more) of 2011

Popdose Staff December 23, 2011 0

The mother of year-end lists: Popdose's Top Albums of 2011.

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The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time: Honorable Mentions

The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time: Honorable Mentions

Zack Dennis September 8, 2011 25

Last week, we published a compilation of the 100 greatest cover songs of all time, as voted by the Popdose staff.  Of course, our way of tabulating the results (you can see the original

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The Popdose 100: The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time

The Popdose 100: The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time

Popdose Staff August 31, 2011 256

Look, Ma! We can count to a hundred!

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Bob Dylan: The Poet At 70

Bob Dylan: The Poet At 70

Popdose Staff May 24, 2011 31

Bob Dylan is 70 years old, and the Popdose Staff has pulled together a massive post to honor him. Here are 70 of our favorite Dylan songs, one for each year

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Springsteen’s Spare Parts: “Don’t Look Back” (1977)

Matt Springer November 18, 2010 19

Fittingly, the first installment of our alternative look at Bruce Springsteen's career puts its foot to the floor and doesn't look back

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Early Thoughts: Bruce Springsteen’s “The Promise”

Matt Springer November 9, 2010 16

With The Promise, Bruce Springsteen treats fans to a peek into the vaults from one of his richest artistic periods -- but does it live up to its title

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Fandango: George Lucas Faces Jon Stewart — A Report From “Star Wars” Celebration

Matt Springer August 20, 2010 5

To some, he is the Flanneled One. The Bearded One. Baron Papanoida. The Maker. To others, he is a former mythmaker who has since surrendered any pretense of creative integrity in a fool’s quest

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Rekkids: Elvis Costello & the Attractions, “The Ultimate Gangster”

Matt Springer August 17, 2010 6

I currently have 1,884 albums on my 160GB iPod. I will listen to them all, in no particular order, and write about them. Punch the Clock is an album often dismissed by die-hard Elvis

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