(With apologies to Ted, as there are no sob stories about failed relationships this week.) Let it not be said that Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown was without its good points. Actually,…
Today marks the final post of 2008 for Bottom Feeders. So instead of starting the letter G and then going on break, let’s take a look back at the first…
Tipsy – Buzzz (Ipecac, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) They call their music “drunktronica,” explain the seven-year layoff between this and their previous release by saying they were “distracted by…
If you’re a Republican Party stalwart, and say you went to the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami hoping for a good answer to the question of “Now what?” you…
Another example of a one-hit wonder in the States while huge in the U.K., paranoid android and Bowie Low cop artist Gary Numan can lay the blame for his lack…
The Pogues – “The Old Main Drag” The Decemberists – “On the Bus Mall” — n {democracy:24} — Thanks to everyone who voted during Halloween week!
Dan Wilson (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic, solo artist) Okay Darren, here are my picks! I’m sure if I thought about it more I’d only come up with a bunch more bonus…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE In general, people who know Daniel Lanois know him from the musical acts he’s produced: U2, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris,…
Beautiful Ohio (IFC, 2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon Chad Lowe has long suffered being the second banana to his brother and his ex-wife. Even though he won an Emmy for…
Rosie Thomas – A Very Rosie Christmas (Nettwerk, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Okay, yes, I know — everyone hates Christmas music, and anyway, we’re about to bombard you poor…
A decade ago this past summer, Kay Hanley and her bandmates in Letters to Cleo had to be talked into accepting a free trip to Hollywood when the producers of…
Hello, everyone. I want to play a game. But donÁ¢€â„¢t worry, this isnÁ¢€â„¢t one of those Jigsaw games where you have to choose between your life and, say, your eyesight….
Well hey there. In case you didn’t know, this is the last week of The Three Strike Rule until the new year. Hey, don’t get mad at me, take it…
Miranda Lee Richards – Light of X (Nettwerk, 2009) purchase this album (Amazon) She took guitar lessons from Kirk Hammett and R. Crumb was her godfather, but don’t expect shredding…
On November 5, the morning after Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America, Oprah Winfrey appeared on her talk show with an American…
There are a few things about this week’s post that will probably disturb most of my friends who end up reading it (though I’m not sure how many of my…
If you live in Las Vegas, be sure to catch either of Kathy Griffin’s two shows tonight at Mandalay Bay Casino, where I presume she’ll be talking about her crazy…
Slacktivist chimes in on the Prop. 8 debacle, and Keith Olbermann delivers a moving (and restrained!) special comment: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/W4xfMisqab8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Hip new music on Alabama public…
Terje Fjelde – Baseball in the Backyard from Diverse (1997) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Ice Cream Truck from Town Topic (2008) Vertigo – Evaporate from And Miles to…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/RZxkbWf0Xns” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Bryan Adams, “Run to You” (1984) Darren Robbins: This song was the exact turning point for Adams. Up until then, his music…
This is not a review of Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond picture. There was a screening Wednesday night, but I had to put my Walther PPK asideÁ¢€¦and babysit….
Encounters at the End of the World (2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I had a very odd application. I had to explain that I was into things like: Is there…
There’s an episode of The Simpsons that, bizarrely, brings Bob Mould to mind. It’s the one where Homer, in an attempt to get some recognition and glory, winds up on…
The other day my Popdose colleague Ted Asredagoo posed the question of how President-Elect Obama — once he is wrapped up in the business of actually, you know, governing —…
It wasn’t the most auspicious of beginnings for Richard and Karen Carpenter.Á‚ Despite later huge success with several Top 40 hits and platinum albums, their first album, Offering, was a…
In what better ways could musicians reject the status quo of Led Zeppelin, the musical bollocks of disco, and the pop pablum du jour like Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up…
Back in January, I wrote a special Basement Song column dedicated to my daughter, Sophie, on her birthday.Á‚ Tomorrow, November 14, is my son Jacob’s birthday, and I now I…
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. HeÁ¢€â„¢s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
It would go against the trail-blazing spirit of Trent Reznor to use him as any sort of guideline, but it must be said that any arena rock band should turn…