Originally, this fine blog entry was crafted exclusively for the awesome Popdose Statutory Rock List, but alas, as I am wont to do — such as right here in the…
Damn right, Á¢€Å“My Sharona.Á¢€ The KnackÁ¢€â„¢s one monster hit, co-written by lead guitarist Berton Averre and singer Doug Fieger, has kept my heart pumping and my hands pounding on steering…
Rick Astley – Hold Me in Your Arms (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Well, do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big, fat hit — it was ghastly He…
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There are those artists who get a couple releases into their career before they feel the pressure from the suits at the label to “have a hit,” and then there…
Trent Reznor strikes again. So, Ghosts I-IV didn’t satisfy your hunger, it wasn’t like a “real” Nine Inch Nails album, it was instrumental, it didn’t count? Well, that’s fine. ‘Cause…
It would be a lie to say that listening to M83’s Saturdays=Youth is vaguely reminiscent of being transported back to the ’80s. Listening to M83’s Saturdays=Youth is incredibly reminiscent of…
Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the Á¢€Å“disappointingÁ¢€ sales figures for Judas PriestÁ¢€™s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith (it merely went platinum), CBS Records…
The story of how I completed my collection continues in 2006. I was winding down to the end. I found that collecting the first 4,000-plus songs to hit the Billboard…
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There was an episode of televisionÁ¢€â„¢s Friday Night Lights when a new character plays in his first game and forces a game-changing fumble. The lead-up sequence is unabashedly manipulative, as…
I don’t know if bad news has reached critical mass this past week, but it seems that the last few days of newspaper reading has engendered a great deal of…
The most interesting thing about British pop band Curiosity Killed the Cat is that Andy Warhol appeared and co-directed the video for their biggest hit. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely…
Hiya kids! This week I have a guest DJ mixin’ it up for you. Jack Feerick wrote a great Popdose Guide to Traffic and, unsatisfied with lack of music love…
So much of our lives are shaped by how we carry ourselves — our self-confidence, if you will. Yet I have come to believe that confidence is actually an indicator…
I’ve spoken before of ESDMusic.com, one of the blog sites connected to my full-time employer, Bullz-Eye.com, to which I contribute. These days, ESD Music exists predominantly as an alternate haven…
When I was in middle school, I had a lot of ideas for music videos. Generally, these ideas were boring and tame — mostly because at the time, I was…
Over the past several months IÁ¢€™ve been engaged in a Vision Quest on this tiny slice of the Internet, attempting to locate and suitably disparage the worst Number One songs…
Scrubs says “goodbye” to NBC, and “hello” to a new network.
For about as long as there’s been music, dudes have been writing songs about younger girls — but since the dawn of rock and roll, singing odes to teenage flesh…
On May 1, Representative Vito Fossella (R-NY) was arrested for drunk driving in Alexandria, Virginia, after running a red light, and was released into the custody of a former Air…
BOTTOM LINE: A solid play about straight guys that both genders should find relatable and entertaining. See it now — it closes Sunday, May 18. The Four of Us is the…
The Waterboys – World Party from Fisherman’s Blues (1988) Ivan Neville – Ghetto Street from Saturday Morning Music (2002) Ray LaMontagne – Country Girl from Rarities (year) Splitsville – Your…
So, IÁ¢€â„¢m about to reveal to you a problem I have that only a few know about: I cannot scream. ThatÁ¢€â„¢s right, I can’t yell really loud at anything. I…
Hey everybody, and anyone else I’ve left out. Welcome to the sixteenth stoat-wrangling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. While we do impose a certain amount of structure on…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/PYxl-4oRu1U” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Spacehog, “In the Meantime” (1996) Pete: Haven’t thought about old Spacehog since, well, 1996. But this song did age well. Jeff: I…
All I know about Speed Racer I learned as a kid, when I watched episodes of the proto-anime between spoonfuls of Cocoa Puffs. There wasnÁ¢€â„¢t much to it Á¢€” there…
Okay, this is how I think it’s going to go down: before the end of the year, a major player in the music industry will announce that it’ll no longer…
I’ve been feeling a lot of pressure to see Standard Operating Procedure, the new Errol Morris documentary about the goings-on at Abu Ghraib. I had already seen Taxi to the…