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Soundtrack Saturday: “My So-Called Life”
This week, Kelly Stitzel revisits the one -- and only -- TV edition of Soundtrack Saturday, which featured one of the best shows about teen angst ever to get prematurely canceled, My So-Called LifeRead More »
Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 48
The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert's worth of Springsteen tunes.
Read More »The Weekly Mixtape: 3/11/11 (Paving Memory Lane)
Fall into a Memory Lane pothole of Nineties goodness, in the Popdose Weekly Mixtape
Read More »Parlour to Parlour, Class of 2009 Update: The New Up
Michael Fortes catches up with the stars of Parlour to Parlour's 14th episode, The New Up, as they release a new EP and prepare for another national tour
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/22/10 — Peace and Love
Peace and love - they were meant to be together. With that in mind, Michael Fortes brings together a mix of 20 songs with "peace" and "love" in their titles
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Sonic Youth, “Goo”
Though Sonic Youth are the quintessential indie rock group, they actually spent 18 years on a major label. Michael Fortes looks back at the start of it all
Read More »Bootleg City: Ride in Cambridge, March ’91
Last week in Bootleg City, it was discovered that Mayor Cass had gone missing after what appeared to be a New Year’s Eve celebration in his office. The only clue to his whereabouts was
Read More »CD Review: Jim O’Rourke, “The Visitor”
Jim O’Rourke is either a master provocateur or just plain infuriating; it all depends on how you feel about his career as a whole. If you liked his experimental acoustic music with David Grubbs
Read More »Parlour to Parlour, Episode 6: The Parson Red Heads, Part Two
Michael Fortes concludes his visit with the Parson Red Heads in L.A. with a tour of their blissfully communal pad and an unexpected run-in with the
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: Fightstarters
The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well since Ebert owns the
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