MONOLITH OF DOOM AND DESTRUCTION UNLEASHED UPON THE POPULACE – BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED The Black Box (Flingco Sound System) The box had been devised long ago by an evil wizard….
All but dead at the other major networks, scripted comedy is alive and well at NBC; even as the Peacock tries to flush high-quality television down a lantern-jawed toilet with…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Call this mix the postscript of Beatles Week at Popdose … a postscript that’s a couple of weeks late! But better late than never, right?Á‚ …
It took him almost two months, but Anthony Hansen is back with the final installment of his guide to David Bowie’s recording career. Let’s get eclectic … and let’s dance!
Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season (2009, Warner Brothers) purchase from Amazon: DVD The fourth season of Supernatural kicks ass. Great mythology, plenty of action, some good doses of humor, it…
In the HBO/BBC co-production Into the Storm, a visibly moved Winston Churchill (played, in an Emmy-winning performance, by Brendan Gleeson) screens his favorite movie, That Hamilton Woman (1941), for guests….
Take the rootsy instrumentation of Lowen & Navarro and blend it with the marshmallow-sweet vocal harmonies of the Guggenheim Grotto, and you’ve got yourself Oak and Gorski, the cello-rockin’ duo…
JACKYL Title: “The Lumberjack Song” Album: Jackyl Release Date: 1992 Why You Remember Them: You cannot imagine how often, in the research of this column, one comes across the phrase…
We’ve got old songs We’ve got new songs We’ve got songs we can’t play We’ve got a spaceship But we won’t leave without you With those words, Bono and his…
Lord Jefito and I are still trying to figure out how this posted nearly a month early. My apologies to those of you who already submitted guesses – and early…
Hey, guys, remember that girl in college? The one whose intellect was sometimes intimidating, but sometimes eye-roll-inducing, depending on how far she ventured into clichÁƒ©? The one you thought about…
The popularity of David Gray’s White Ladder nine or so years ago was a fluke, an accident, a total surprise, never should have happened. The man had been plugging away…
According to Lev, Uncle Donnie served in some capacity in the Def Leppard camp during the recording sessions for Adrenalize, and wound up going out with them on one of…
There come times in the pop culture universe where an item is so solidly packed with cheese, befuddlement, and WTF? moments that it falls in upon itself, spiraling into a…
After a four-year layoff, David Gray is back with a new album — which is just one of the things discussed during Rob Smith’s interview with the multi-platinum singer/songwriter.
Image via CrunchBase When my grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe, it was to Newark, N.J. that they came. My parents were born and raised in the Newark. For most of…
Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time once again for Hollywood to take one day out of the year to congratulate itself for a job well done. Won’t you join us while we watch the 2009 Emmy Awards?
Ken Shane heads back into those dusty crates for another week, and…what’s this? A new release? And one that you can win a free copy of, too?
While you were mourning Patrick Swayze’s death with a Ghost/Road House/Dirty Dancing marathon, Kelly Stitzel was doing something entirely different — and here’s why.
BOTTOM LINE: An incredible dance show, unlike anything you’ve seen before. The Groovaloos are a dance company from LA. They’re hip-hop dancers with diverse backgrounds who came together a while…
Who doesn’t love The Wizard of Oz? (That was a rhetorical question. Put your hands and middle fingers down.) Last week in Bootleg City, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of…
Remember that mixtape from last week? One hundred Beatles covers? That thing was EPIC! It was freaking magnificent! Yup… That was… really something. Well, then. Midnight Oil – Under The…
Jon Cummings is gearing up to interview Neil Finn, but instead of hogging the questions all to himself, he wants to know what you want to know. Got a query for the Crowded House frontman? Let’s hear it!
Singer-songwriter pop aimed squarely at adults meets animation geared to the Playhouse Disney demographic. Yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong with this one.
With Jennifer’s Body arriving in theaters this weekend, Pete Chianca’s thoughts have turned to all the wonderful ways high school can be horrible — particularly in the movies.
Á¢€Å“FillerÁ¢€ is a term often used by music fans to describe songs that sound like they were quickly put together to take up space on an album in order to…
There aren’t many bankable stars at the movies in 2009 — but Meryl Streep is one of the last ones standing, and as Bob Cashill notes, she’s earned her stature.
The outburst heard ’round the nation, at least until Kanye West co-opted the mike: South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s interjection during President Obama’s health care pitch to Congress. A million…
Ah, now this is more like it. I was beginning to hate you, 2009 fall television season, what with your moderately entertaining musicals and comedy scourges who were supposed to…
One of the many things I love about Popdose is our collective freedom to write different kinds of posts: Sometimes you gets yourself a Cold Shot related to some bit…