By late 1968, the Rascals string of hit singles was coming to and end, but there was still a lot of great music to be heard from the blue-eyed soul legends.
Nickel Creek – Smoothie Song Counting Crows – Mr. Jones Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – You Know You Wrong Tori Amos – A Santa Fairytale Steve Winwood- Why Can’t We…
Popdose reviews the latest from the Firefly Universe, Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale.
It used to be that all Madonna songs were hits. It was just the way things were. From 1984 until 1995, she’d had more than 30 consecutive top 40 hits….
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
Bottom Feeders starts the letter S this week as we continue looking at more of the great rock songs from the ’80s.
Did you ever wonder what Tales from Topographic Oceans might sound like if it were written by Rodgers and Hammerstein instead of Jon Anderson and Steve Howe? Me neither, but…
After a few years of plundering my parents’ vinyl collection and taping songs off the radio, I finally got around to buying my first cassette in late 1985. This was…
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles can make for difficult wading when you’re trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Well, the movement you need is…
Scared of nuclear fallout? Buying up iodine pills to protect your thyroid? Welcome to the new clear days! And thankfully, Popdose has a mix to keep you humming while we’re all freaking out.
Welcome to a overdue, mostly rushed, and special been-under-the-weather edition of Confessions, which will this week be made up of one longish and a bunch of shortish takes on various…
Stanford University’s David Giovacchini and Veronika Ferdman of Slant Magazine join host Sara Vizcarrondo in the studio for a highly informed, personal, self-swallowing discussion of CERTIFIED COPY, while Walter von…
With a new Mark Ronson-produced album about to hit shelves, Popdose puts Duran Duran under the microscope to examine their strange, wonderful career.
Rob Smith finds a new power ballad masterpiece from Cathy Richardson and the Macrodots, in this week’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
Yippie-ki-yay! Scott Malchus looks back at “Die Hard” in this week’s Basement Songs.
Matt Wardlaw shares some Fresh Prince bootleg love and, using Bootleg City’s long-distance calling plan, shares his thoughts with Gary Cherone about Van Halen III.
For this week’s mixtape, Kelly Stitzel brings you some of her favorite songs from her favorite albums released so far in 2011.
In anticipation of the release of Paul, Popdose looks at the work of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Classic metal from Motorhead and Sabbath mingle with unknowns like Windir and Piledriver, this week in False Metal, Dead!
Bradley Cooper is a star in the new sci-fi thriller Limitless.
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston shine in the film “The Switch.”
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Kelly Stitzel discusses her favorite Van Morrison song and its many cover versions.
Popdose’s Secret Single investigate Genesis’ “3X3,” or in the US, the “Paperlate” single.
A mixtape so nice, we ran it twice. Listen back to Zack Dennis’ Ultimate Drinking Mixtape from 2009 and be jiggered!
It’s a big week in Austin, and that city’s Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears have done their hometown proud with a scintillating, soulful sophomore album.
A megahit from Korea slams onto Blu-ray. Expect a fair amount of destruction, a lot of slashed throats, and some flying body parts.
R.I.P. Nate Dogg, one of the greatest voices in rap music. We look at 10 of his greatest guest spots as a tribute.
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…