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OMG! NEW OMD! ON CD. In 2013!
It’s hard to believe the original incarnation of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper) has been back together for close to eight years. If they blew
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Download Now: J.P. Rose “What If I Were You?”
J.P. Rose gave up the blustery winds of San Francisco, where he fronted electro/pop outfit Hot Challenge, for the sunny shores of Los Angeles. The easy, breezy, beautiful LA weather informs the instantly addictive
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Greatest Un-Hits: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s “Electricity” (1979)
OMD's dark electronic sounds were right in step with New Order and Depeche Mode, and yet "Electricity" couldn't find an audience on either side of the pond over three releases
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 36
It's time to put the Popdose mascot in hiding for the week as everyone's favorite carnivore, Mr. Ozzy Osbourne comes to town. He's bringing with him Oingo Boingo and Sinead. If I had know
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 »White Label Wednesday: Medsker’s Retro Beat Mix
David Medsker goes back in time and returns with a retro beat mix this week, featuring songs from a-ha, Wham!, Pet Shop Boys, Go West, and many more
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 65
In this week's Bottom Feeders, Dave Steed takes us through a decade's worth of chart-scraping tracks from acts whose names start with the letter O -- and learns the hard way that no one
Read More »Chartburn: 8/01/08
Mainstream Rock: Mike + the Mechanics, “Silent Running” (1985) David Medsker: I love Paul Carrack as much as the next guy, but is what I refer to asRead More »Jesus of Cool: John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, and a Kiss…of Death
If you were a GenXer coming of age in the 1980s, moviegoing meant heavy doses of Harrison Ford, too much Tom Cruise, an occasional journey into the unhinged eraserhead of David Lynch…and multitudes of
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