April 16, 1981, was a Thursday. The nation’s front pagesÁ‚ detail the story of Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke, who admitted yesterday that her Pulitzer Prize-winning series featuring an eight-year-old heroin…
One year ago today, my hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia, came face to face with a horror few American towns have had the misfortune of witnessing. To mark this somber anniversary…
Don’t look now, but there appears to be something of a soul revival going on these days, and I’m not talking about that so-called “neosoul,” with its programmed beats, overly…
Having moved away from Seattle to the cement pastures of New York City, I feel woefully out of touch with the consistently good music scene of my hometown. To make…
Simply put, those Á¢€Å“U1Á¢€ jokes about Simple Minds that Py Korry referred to in his most recent Mix Six installment began here. Á¢€Å“Produced by Steve Lillywhite.Á¢€ For most bands, those…
So, we’re on the third post of this series, and I haven’t yet told you about my collection, and the reason I can actually do this type of thing. Last…
Teen angst is one of the most tempting lodes for an ore-seeking filmmaker to mine. ItÁ¢€â„¢s something of a shared experience; the instinct to rebel against authority in any form…
History-altering events produce consequences that are sometimes unintended. In our post-9/11 age, the political landscape has quickly altered, from the relative peace and prosperity of the Clinton years to perpetual…
It’s the age-old story in pop music Á¢€” when the hits start drying up, it’s time to grab the current “hot” producer and jump on the latest trend, hoping to…
Few bands in the history of rock n’ roll have been simultaneously as lucky and doomed as Badfinger. Lucky because they were not only one of the wildly eclectic assortment…
DOWNLOAD HERE I’ve been watching Gene Simmons Family Jewels on and off since the series began, and for some reason, there was a bit of a marathon session last week….
“I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.” Á¢€”Dr. John Boy, if that doesn’t sum up the self-titled debut/swan song of Bounce the Ocean,…
Something’s come over me as I’ve contemplated this, the fourth edition of what promises to be a six-part series (the invention of time travel seeming unlikely before I conclude, sometime…
Hey, all. This week I learned what they mean by “chasing down an interview.” I had been planning to post a conversation with one of the actors from October Road,…
The other day I saw Jersey Boys, a Broadway musical unlike any other I’ve seen before. It’s not that the show itself was that phenomenally groundbreaking, or touching, or thought-provoking….
Our friend John at You Must Be From Away let us know about this, and we had to share: Shave for a Cure has long been the signature fundraiser of…
Mark Bacino – Kay from Pop Job … The Long Player! (1997) The Replacements – Buck Hill from Hootenanny (1983) Jack Wagner – Fighting the Nights from All I Need…
Hey everybody. Welcome to the thirteenth finger-snapping week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules? We got your steenkinÁ¢€â„¢ rules right here: The Rules (subject to modification in future games):…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/r-XtvR6-ckg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Pink Floyd, “Keep Talking” (1994) Scott: Could Gilmour sound more bored? No wonder he called Floyd quits. Although Momentary Lapse of Reason…
I’ve been tasked with preparing a summer movie guide for Popdose. I haven’t done one of these since I was at the Daily Northwestern, cramming dozens of titles into a…
Some people are just flat-out smart-asses. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be at times, mind you, but a good smart-ass pulls it off with a modicum of grace…
I know IÁ¢€â„¢m a few days late, but may I please be the one who gets to pry the gun from his cold, dead hands? Forgive me if I decline…
In 1979, Donna Summer could do no wrong — she was, in fact, riding high with three Top Ten hits in a row. So no one blinked when Summer and…
Chuck Berry made rock and roll what it is today. This critic would fight — and win — a cage match with any other writer who’d take Elvis as the…
Waiting in line outside the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, milling about with hundreds of other hungry fans, I suspected that the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert…
Julian Lennon – The Secret Value of Daydreaming (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) “The son of John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia, Julian Lennon parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity…
Should the Monkees be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum? Certainly the argument that they began life as a solely commercial construct is a valid one,…
People are making a big deal out of Fatboy Slim and Soulwax doing remixes of tracks from the Rolling StonesÁ¢€™ back catalog, but this is truly much ado about nothing….
It’s a new year, and with it comes another British pop-soul diva to tempt us. You may recall that a very young Joss Stone turned up from out of nowhere…