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Introducing Songwork: A Popdose Mini-Series
Writing a song is easy. You just bang out a chain of chords, always driving to the chorus as fast and as often as possible. Then you throw on some lyrics; nothing fancy, nothing
Read More »Random Play: “Deadwood”
Join Robin Monica Alexander in a filthy, fascinating world of neurotic gunslingers, psychotic whoremongers, and corpse-eating pigs, won't you
Read More »Random Play: River Phoenix
The recent rash of celebrity deaths has Robin Monica Alexander thinking of River Phoenix's untimely demise
Read More »Popdose Contest: Win “Southland: The Complete First Season” on DVD
So, are there any Southland fans still reading Popdose? Excellent! This giveaway is especially for you. A lucky reader will win the brand-new, uncensored Season One set courtesy of Warner Home Video, but we’re
Read More »Random Play: “The Clan of the Cave Bear”
What's a cave bear, and how many to a clan? We aren't sure, but after reading Robin Monica Alexander's latest column, we want to learn
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: They Might Be Giants, “Flood”
This is where the party ends, 'cause we can't stand here listening to They Might Be Giants' Flood turning 20 years old. Twenty! Where has the time gone? And why does someone keep moving
Read More »Random Play: Sting (in the ’80s)
There have been a lot of boys, and men, whose pictures I have torn out of magazines for my personal use. The first may have been Michael Jackson, of whom I was so publicly
Read More »Random Play: “Robotech”
I barely knew him. Yet here I was, on a cold Tuesday night, at his apartment. We had had a drink or two at the bar/lounge/restaurant down the street from his place. As one
Read More »Random Play: V.C. Andrews, “Flowers in the Attic”
Join our newest writer, Robin Monica Alexander, as she takes you on a genre and era-bouncing trip through pop culture -- today, she looks back at her teenage obsession with V.C. Andrews' "Flowers in
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