Arnold McCuller calls “Soon As I Get Paid” his musical autobiography. He could haven’t chosen better songs or better players to help him to tell his story.
In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative…
Put on your dancing shoes and strap on your guitar. It’s time to rock a little and dance a little at the Weeknight ’80s Dance Party.
What happens when you combine Dixieland music with popular songs from the ’70s? You get “The Next Hundred Years” by the Ragtimers, this week’s album featured on “Way Out Wednesday.”
AMC’s “The Killing” is easily one the best shows of the year.
Disgruntled by the recent FBI crackdown of online poker, Jeff Johnson brings us Six Myths About Online Poker.
The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert’s worth of Springsteen tunes.
April 18th was an extraordinary night for soap fans: The iconic vacuum company Hoover put an announcement up on its Facebook page saying, in part, that it was going to…
Popdose takes a look at the nuts and bolts of writing for a daytime drama with the Emmy-winning head writer of One Life to Live.
A band suspended forever between the formalism of Dennis DeYoung’s Broadway pretentions and the harder-edged banalities of James Young and Tommy Shaw, Styx sounded different every time it came on…
With their alluring blend of vintage Cambodian pop and surf rock, Dengue Fever’s latest release, Cannibal Courthship, earns praise from Chris Holmes.
Charlie Brown and I go way back, and the longer I live, the more I realize Charlie Brown was not a put-upon child, but a middle-aged man. Furthermore, Charlie Brown is me.
Hello and welcome back to Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine upon assorted comics and graphic novel releases of recent vintage, and you read and presumably…
I asked New York-based singer/songwriter Patti Rothberg for a contribution to our Desert Island Discs series and a few short weeks later, I received the following note which cleverly came…
It’s springtime again, and Scott Malchus is reflecting on baseball, family and the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis in this week’s Basement Songs.
Robin Wright may be The Conspirator in Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination film, as Michelle Williams goes west in Meek’s Cutoff.
“The Virginity Hit” is a sleeper waiting to be discovered by more people than the “Superbad” audience to whom the film is being marketed.
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s new play, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, is hilarious, and Bobby Cannavalae shines as its dejected hero. Read Molly Marinik’s review at popdose.com.
As promised, here are the winners for our 50CCM50 giveaways! Rob Hire, from the Great White North, won the Peacock/Heard vinyls… Jonathan Henschel won the Phil Keaggy CDs… Michial Farmer…
Singer/songwriter Marc Pinansky imagines himself on a desert island and comes up with 5 discs to make the trip with.
Dave Steed breaks into the Top 20 metal albums of all time with Angel Witch, Immortal, Opeth and yes, even Probot!
Yes, yes, June is the traditional month of the year associated with weddings, but your brother isn’t getting married this Sunday is he? I didn’t think so. As an alternative…
Popdose.com presents the Top Ten CCM albums of all-time as determined by Dw. Dunphy.
The Popdose Podcast returns with an interview with Gorman Bechard, the creative force behind Color me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements.
Think you know your music? How about just a snippet of music? Put your knowledge to the test in Popdose’s latest edition of Name That Tune.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 (Warner Bros., 2010) After six films and billions of dollars in box office grosses, this is the end — or the…
iPodders prepare! This Popdose.com giveaway is just for you!
Just when Freddie Scott decided to give up on recording and focus on songwriting, an opportunity came along to record a song that would change his life.
In the spring of 1995, I had a brief but odd obsession with The Brady Bunch Movie. It’s probably because it collided my first pop culture object of whimsy with…
Get your hair sprayed and your neon leg warmers washed, because it’s time for Popdose’s Weeknight ’80s Dance Party!