October 20, 2017• Album Reviews, Music
Watter – a Louisville post-rock band that’s high in promise due to its parentage, if nothing else – simply fails to deliver on the...
October 10, 2017• Music, Popdose Profiles
Twenty-five years ago today, the beat was born. It was the sound of young adults from Louisville – a sprawling collection of...
September 7, 2017• Album Reviews, Music
Captain Beefheart devotees, rejoice! Shape-shifter Don van Vliet might be deceased but his spirit – and that of his ever-evolving Magic...
January 18, 2017• Album Reviews, Music
At first blush, Papa M’s Highway Songs LP is a mess or, at best perhaps, unbalanced. But first blushes, like a journalist’s first...
July 29, 2015• Album Reviews, Music
It takes a great record to remind me how awkward it can be — yes yes, like dancing to architecture — to write...
January 23, 2015• Album Reviews, CD Reviews, Music
It’s hard to believe We Only Said operates nearly 4,100 miles outside Louisville, once- and always-home of post-rock icons Slint and...
December 22, 2014• Music, Popdose Profiles
Rachel Grimes knew how to play the piano before she learned to walk. “My dad and grandmother played, so I was always sitting beside them...
November 18, 2014• Music, Reissue Reviews
The single guitar note, all fragile and frosted glass, falls on the foot of the kick drum. And then, as the notes continue to unfurl and...
July 30, 2014• Music, Popdose Interviews
Before Louisville was associated with Palace, though after, I suppose, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled its seedy decadence during the Derby,...
May 6, 2014• Album Reviews, Music
Steve Albini once infamously offered up “ten fucking stars” in Melody Maker to the swansong LP of a then-unknown Louisville quartet...
March 25, 2011• Music, Popdose Flashback '91
Popdose analyzes a seminal rock album, Slint's Spiderland, that 80% of the public doesn't even knows exist....
June 5, 2009• Music, The Weekly Mixtape
Let’s go outside. No, let’s go waaaaay outside! Erik Sanko – The Perfect Flaw from Past Imperfect, Present Tense (2001)...
February 18, 2009• Music
In sudden and shocking fashion, it was announced today that Touch And Go Records, the venerable Chicago label, would be closing down its...
