Happy holidays, David Bowie…and to all a good last-day sale as Barnes and Noble’s Criterion Collection blowout winds down. Bob Cashill sifts recent releases.
With his 50’s slicked back hair and a laid back, inviting charm, plus the ability to relate to any person who walks through the doors to The Shootist, the family run Colorado establishment that he runs, “Lock ‘n Load” creator/host Josh T. Ryan is a star.
As you get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, be thankful that you don’t have to spend the holiday with a bratty pre-teen with a bad haircut. Join Kelly Stitzel as she takes a look at the soundtrack for the John Hughes-penned 1991 film, Dutch.
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not ever. No, never, no way, no how….
In “Friday Night Lights,” Season Five, Episode Four, there’s trouble on the homestead in East Dillon.
Hi! This is Ethan. Well, technically, he’s Super Ethan in this picture. Which makes sense, ’cause Ethan is my super-awesome nephew. Ethan turned nine years old last month. Which means…
You’ve heard about her on our Twitter stream. You’ve wondered what all the fuss was about. Amy Petty’s new album has been released, and it’s time to find out.
Dave Steed continues to look at the 300 metal albums he headbangs to, including Chemlab, Morbid Angel, Agony Column and the Obsessed.
And so we’ve come to Volume 7 in our look at the KBCO Studio C series. Vol. 7 was the first KBCO retrospective, meaning it’s got a lot of stuff…
UPDATE: Well, the computer started off its week in a hole, as it badly missed its top play for the week last night. The table below shows my final bets;…
Fittingly, the first installment of our alternative look at Bruce Springsteen’s career puts its foot to the floor and doesn’t look back.
The 1972 blaxploitation film “Across 110 Street” has been largely forgotten, but Bobby Womack’s indelible title song lives on.
Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some of which may be…
Mutiny on the Bounty (Warner Bros., 1935) It made Oscar history as the first film to earn Best Actor nominations for all three of its male leads (an admittedly distinguished…
Robin Monica Alexander loves Shakespeare, but she hates racism more. In the latest Random Play, she asks why we keep making excuses for “The Merchant of Venice.”
Dave Steed takes a Journey into the “Electric Eye” of the ’80s with more of your favorite and least favorite rock hits of the decade.
Ocean’s 11 (Warner Bros., 1960) They’re a pop culture institution — hell, they’re heroes to some people — but the Rat Pack really didn’t make that many movies as a…
Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Atheist, Nails, Drudkh and Yngwie!
Dear Mr./Ms. music supervisor who was probably born two years after Glory Daze is set: in the year 1986, no heterosexual male danced in front of his dorm room mirror listening to Duran Duran. And if he did (but I swear he didn’t) he wouldn’t have listened to ”Girls on Film,” which was released in 1981
Part 7: Rockestra (1980) As the 70s drew to a close, our alternate-reality Beatles found themselves still mostly on top of the world, albeit with more company than they had…
A new series in which Dave Lifton and Matt Springer envision a universe where Bruce Springsteen doesn’t take three years to make an album.
What would you do if it was going to be impossible to commit a crime? Not just hard or tough but flatout impossible? What if your own government took the…
It’s the 20th anniversary of Empire, and Popdose speaks with Geoff Tate to discuss new music, how people experience it and how a band stays together almost 30 years.
In “Friday Night Lights,” season five, episode three, Coach Taylor enforces standards and Vince struggles with his father’s homecoming.
Men of a Certain Age isn’t intense and draining; it’s light on its feet and skillfully mixes the comedy and the drama to make for a great alternative to most of the procedurals on the broadcast networks or the dark dramas that appear on FX and AMC.
In 1966 the Young Rascals rocked the world with their #1 hit “Good Lovin’.” The single spurred their debut album into the upper reaches of the charts.
Thanksgiving is for lovers. Wait, what? Join Kelly Stitzel as she explores the soundtrack of one of Woody Allen’s best films, Hannah and Her Sisters.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Ultimate Edition) (Warner Bros., 2010) As the Harry Potter franchise begins drawing to a close at the box office, Warner Bros. continues its…
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a heart-rending story, about…
At the moment, the news looks good. Gerry Rafferty was said to be gravely ill after collapsing at home last week and being admitted to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. He…