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Soundtrack Saturday: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
The Soundtrack Saturday reruns continue, this week with a Christmas movie everyone seems to love, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Read More »Parlour to Parlour, Episode 33: Quinn DeVeaux
Hailing from Oakland, California, Quinn DeVeaux talks about the hybrid of gospel, blues and R&B that he calls blue beat in this month's Parlour to Parlour
Read More »Soul Serenade: Ray Charles, “America the Beautiful”
On Monday, America celebrated its 235th birthday. On Tuesday, a jury in Florida affirmed one of the principles that this country was founded on.
Read More »The Weekly Mixtape: 1/21/11 (Blue Period)
When it hurts so bad, you need a soundtrack of songs that that put your pain to music. This week's Weekly Mixtape is a deeply blue playlist for just such an occasion
Read More »Cratedigger: Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “Get Happy”
Whether he was atoning for racial intolerant comments or simply following his muse, Elvis Costello's 1980 album "Get Happy" remains among his finest efforts
Read More »Desert Island Discs with Carey Ott
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t a fair question, but
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: “When Harry Met Sally…”
Kelly Stitzel closes out 2010 with one of her favorite Soundtrack Saturday columns ever about the classic romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally. We hope you'll have what she's having
Read More »The Popdose Holiday Mixtape 2010
Last Christmas, we gave you our heart, but you were too busy doing real stuff. Hey, it’s perfectly understandable. We launched a “special gift” on Christmas morning 2009 with zero fanfare. Is it any
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