Attention, theatre buffs: the 2008 Tony Awards are Sunday, June 15, and that means it’s time to place your bets! Theatre Is Easy presents the coolest Tony Awards competition this…
Dr. John – Why Come from Anutha Zone (1998) Robbie Robertson – Shake This Town from Storyville (1991) Was (Not Was) – Dressed to Be Killed from Are You Okay?…
Hi everybody! I’m still exhausted from the CHART ATTACK! podcast — so let’s give it up for another guest writer! Dw. Dunphy needs no introduction — certainly you know him…
Who needs to watch the damn movies? Dave Matos and Mikey Newman can review them just by watching the trailers, and they’ll prove it to you right here! [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/WMMRlDxKevA”…
The O’Jays – The Essential O’Jays (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) What, you thought you already bought The Essential O’Jays back in 2005, when Sony released another compilation called The…
Katie Couric is sexy. I’ll give you all a moment to digest that. Aaaaaaaand … scene. I’m not kidding here. I find Miss Couric genuinely attractive and, to add to…
Yesterday afternoon I was shopping around for a new mattress for my sonÁ¢€â„¢s bedroom, and I happened upon a brand-new AmericaÁ¢€â„¢s Mattress outlet in my town with a flashy Á¢€Å“Grand…
With the exception of Bowie and a couple of can’t-be-denied hits from the Sweet and T. Rex, American radio just had no time for glam rock. While the U.K. was…
My garage-rock/psychedelic collector-dweeb friends (and I am fairly dweebish in this regard, so don’t take that as some kind of slight) will accuse me of taking the week off,…
Late. I was late getting to the damn airport. If I hadnÁ¢€â„¢t stopped by the library to renew that Le Carre book, I would have been on the road already….
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Astrograss – Let Me Stay Up All Night (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) For years — in fact, until fairly recently — children’s music was where songwriting talent went to…
Robbie Robertson’s recorded output with his legendary band — that is, The Band — and his solo career would seem like different beasts on the surface. While The Band was…
To me, a wannabe keyboard playa and a journalist who earns a monthly mortgage payment writing about topics other than music (yeah, Popdose ain’t the gravy train a lot of…
LetÁ¢€™s just ask the obvious question: how the hell did this song become a hit? This is not to say that the song is awful so much as itÁ¢€™s really,…
If youÁ¢€™ve got nothing to do on a Tuesday from 8 PM to midnight Eastern time, you should head on over to Bastard Radio and listen to DestinyÁ¢€™s Bastard Children,…
Val Emmich – Little Daggers (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) I wasn’t expecting much from this album, to put it mildly. Fashionably grungy album artwork depicting a baby-faced serial killer…
Like practically all Americans with (meager) holdings on the New York Stock Exchange, I watched in dismay as my stocks plummeted on Friday. Oil prices spiked, which caused the Dow…
IÁ¢€â„¢m sure if you took a Á¢€Å“No duhÁ¢€ poll on taxes in the U.S., you would find an overwhelming majority of us donÁ¢€â„¢t like paying them. Sure, you can find…
I know what you’re thinking … how can a Duran Duran song possibly be considered Lost in the ’80s? How about when the band itself basically dislikes the single so…
—– Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison” Dave: “Never trust a big butt and smile.” Has there ever been a statement so true? And this coming from three dudes that…
Rachael Sage – Chandelier (2008) purchase this album (BUYSWAG) Think you can’t make a successful run at an independent career in music unless your name is Ani DiFranco? Think again…
Our new(ish) weekly feature on Popdose rolls on, as John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back…
Okay, let me just say right off the top that I’ve always had a bit of a problem with Trent Reznor. This was purely from an artistic POV. As a…
Last week in this space, I described a single by the Canadian rock band Prism as Á¢€Å“sounding like an early-Á¢€™80s Cliff Richard single (not that thereÁ¢€™s anything wrong with that).Á¢€…
TBS begins their summer of comedy this Thursday night (6/12/08) with the second season premieres of The Bill Engvall Show (9:00 PM) and My Boys(9:30 PM). The Bill Engvall Show…
Much has been made in recent years of the abrupt decline of our friendly neighborhood record stores — the mom-and-pop shops (and, in the case of the dearly departed Tower…
Glen Phillips – Secrets of the New Explorers (2008) purchase this album (CD Baby) A concept album about space travel? From former Toad the Wet Sprocket member Glen Phillips? Quelle…
The newest revival of Gypsy, starring queen diva Patti LuPone, opened in March to obnoxiously good reviews. How good, you ask? The Wall Street Journal wrote that Á¢€Å“youÁ¢€â„¢ll never see…
Billy Preston – The Octopus from The Most Exciting Organ Ever (1965) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – What a Friend We Have in Jesus from Funeral for a Friend…