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The Popdose Interview: Mike Stern

Michael Burke September 17, 2009 4

He's got more than a dozen albums and multiple Grammy nominations to his credit -- but Mike Stern's latest release, Big Neighborhood, is still something really special. Read his wide-ranging Popdose Interview with Michael

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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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DVD Review: Miles Davis, “That’s What Happened”

Ken Shane May 19, 2009 1

In my Cratedigger colum last Saturday, I got out my vinyl copy of the 1965 Miles Davis album, E.S.P. The journey from that classic album to this DVD of a 1987 Miles concert in

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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 »

How Bad Can It Be?: Heaven & Hell, “The Devil You Know”

Jack Feerick May 15, 2009 11

The Dio-era lineup of Black Sabbath is back together and rockin' again with a new album. They're calling themselves Heaven & Hell, and in his latest How Bad Can It Be?, Jack Feerick discovers

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Popdose Flashback: Jazzy David Foster With a Snappy Beat

Terje Fjelde March 30, 2009 3

I was a pretty confused kid in 1989. Well, not a kid, really — I was 17 going on 18. I had a couple of hundred vinyl records, and David Foster was my guiding

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SXSW ’09: Day Two, Starring Silvio Dante

Ken Shane March 20, 2009 7

Yesterday’s photos are online at Picasa. AUSTIN, TX — I’m back in the press room at the Austin Convention Center filing this. There was no time this morning because I had to get downtown

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DVD Review: “Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum”

Ken Shane February 24, 2009 0

I don’t think it’s boastful to say that I know a little bit about music. I’m old, so I’ve been playing and listening to it for many years. In that context, I think I

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Test of the Boomerang – New Re-Releases and Live Updates

Ben Wiser February 18, 2009 0

Chris Darrow – Chris Darrow / Under My Own Disguise Limited Edition 2 LP/CD Box Set Chris Darrow’s first paid gig was playing bluegrass with David Lindley on the streets of Disneyland in the

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CD Review: Frank Sinatra, “From the Heart”

Dw. Dunphy February 5, 2009 5

Frank Sinatra – From the Heart (2009, Legacy) purchase this album (Amazon) Valentine’s Day – depending on your walk of life, it’s either a splendid day of warm, romantic thoughts and a gimme so

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