December 3, 2018• Music, Popdose Lists, Year-End Best-Of Lists
Friends, robots, Kardashians, lend me your ears. Remember the days when you didn’t rely on a streaming algorithm to turn you onto new...
March 27, 2018• Music, Reissue Reviews
Chris Hillman co-founded some of the most classic, seminal, groundbreaking acts of the ’60s and ’70s – namely The Byrds, The...
March 6, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Jeffrey Gaines is a name you should be familiar with because he’s been putting out thoughtful, soul-clenching, highly personal and...
February 1, 2018• Ken Shane's Soul Serenade, Music
On February 2, Omnivore Recordings will release the third and fourth discs in their splendid compilation series The Ru-Jac Records story....
January 22, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Dear God, this is amazing. Not because it’s Big Star – let’s make one thing clear from the outset: I...
September 1, 2017• Music, Reissue Reviews
So there have been a few occasions where I had been asked to write about Chris Bell’s I Am The Cosmos album – and I’ve...
June 30, 2017• Music, Reissue Reviews
This wonderful, 22-track compilation is just part of the work Chris Bell did before he dug his heels in with Big Star in 1971. ...
June 16, 2017• Album Reviews, Music
This sophomore effort from heralded producer/musician Chris Price is a revelation. I found it, thanks to the excited...
April 21, 2017• Music, Popdose Exclusives, Popdose Interviews
With the May 5th release of his jaw-droppingly stellar album, Wild Empty Promises, Holden Laurence joins an elite group of artists on my CD...
April 18, 2017• Music, Popdose Interviews
On Friday, April 21, 2017, power pop rock goddess Cait Brennan releases Third, her second album and first on Omnivore Recordings....
March 31, 2017• Current Events, Gender Nation X
The saying, “if we reached just one person, then it was all worthwhile” usually applies to indie films nobody has seen or...
October 11, 2016• Music, Reissue Reviews
The first thing I want to disclose before going further is to say that in the canon of the three albums Big Star, one of my favorite bands...
May 6, 2016• Music, Reissue Reviews
If it wasn’t enough that John David (J.D.) Souther’s debut self-titled album was a stunner, then it shouldn’t come as any...
February 17, 2016• Music, Reissue Reviews
J.D. Souther’s debut solo album could (at least the argument is there) be looked at as the “lost Eagles album” –...
December 8, 2015• Music
I’ll keep this simple – a timely package: the iconic artwork of the three wise men looking at the neon Big Star...
July 2, 2015• Ken Shane's Soul Serenade, Music
A new compilation from Omnivore shines a light on an unjustly forgotten soul singer...
November 10, 2014• CD Reviews, DVD Reviews, Music
As I did with the recent re-issues of Big Star’s #1 Record and Radio City, I went into listening and watching Live In...
August 8, 2013• Ken Shane's Soul Serenade, Music
A new album sheds light on a forgotten soul label...
December 20, 2012• Music, Popdose Lists, Year-End Best-Of Lists
Every year, while lording over an impressive amount of music catalogue news and views at my site, The Second Disc, I think the same thing...
January 17, 2012• A Fan's Notes, Contests, Music
Jellyfish recorded only two albums during their brief career. Neither has ever appeared on vinyl. Now both have been reissued in splendid...
January 10, 2012• A Fan's Notes, Contests, Music
In 1970 Alex Chilton was fed up with is role in the Box Tops and still a year away from Big Star. The music he made that summer was a...
December 21, 2011• Listmania, Music
According to crazy people, next year will see the wholesale demise of compact discs as well as the heroic efforts of Jon Cusack saving...
April 11, 2011• Music
The vinyl release of Big Star "Third" as a Record Store Day exclusive is one of this year's most special offerings. Popdose has a copy for...
