Elvis Costello – Welcome To The Working Week (from My Aim Is True) Kool Moe Dee – I Go To Work (from Knowledge Is King) Nathaniel Mayer – You Gotta…
Childrens Hospital, the series created by comedian Rob Corddry (The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine), not only satirizes the medical drama genre, it skewers it, sets it over an…
The years immediately following the “Death of Disco” weren’t the easiest for Donna Summer, who had been the most successful artist to emerge from the genre. She began the Eighties…
Dave Steed checks out the new releases from The Book of Knots, Debauchery, Alestorm and Isis.
A great new album from the LA band Dawes stirs some distant southern California memories for Ken Shane.
Robin Monica Alexander takes a momentary break from pigging out at the Shake Shack to explain, in the latest “Random Play,” why you should pig out there, too.
Caught up in the HBO series Treme, Ken Shane is in a New Orleans mood this week. He delivers up a Crescent City classic from the Wild Tchoupitoulas.
I haven’t seen that much of True Blood, mainly because I am an adult male. Looking past the screaming camp, broad stereotypes, fetishized gore, and staggeringly terrible acting of Anna…
Berry Gordy, Jr. served in Korea, returned to Detroit, got a job at Ford, and started writing songs for his friend Jackie Wilson. Gordy figured out two things. First, there…
This week’s Revival House celebrates the 30th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Inspired by the words of his Editor, Ken Shane launches a new column for Popdose with a declaration of principles and intent.
Here we go again. Van Halen vs Van Hagar. Which side are you on? Dave Steed lets you make the call via 12 of their minor hits.
It’s hard, if you really listen, not to be startled when 1955’s “Bo Diddley” — all fast-driving beats and nervy aggression — gets going. Diddley ditched chord changes for propulsive…
Laura Linney is wonderful in her Showtime dramedy, “The Big C,” which finds its first season released on DVD.
Do you come from a land down under? Many of us don’t, but many of us certainly love what the land of Oz has produced — musically speaking. Let’s all open a big can of Aussie and guzzle it on this week’s Mix Six.
In this week’s installment of “Death by Power Ballad,” Rob Smith takes on Razor & Tie, the Kidz Bop franchise, and that media whore/singer, Bret Michaels.
Popdose has teamed with Kirkus Reviews — the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and discriminating readers — to bring you the best (and sometimes the worst) in pop-culture and…
You’d have to be a fool to turn down a chance to chat with the man who plays Ron Swanson on NBC’s “Parks & Recreation,” and, buddy, we here at Popdose are no fools.
American: The Bill Hicks Story (BBC, 2011) One of the sharpest, funniest comic voices of his generation, Bill Hicks never achieved the level of recognition he deserved during his too-brief…
Is the new Morbid Angel record simply “Too Extreme!” for the masses to take? Dave Steed says no as he reviews their new album plus other new metal and rock releases.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner Bros., 1976) Clint Eastwood and the Old West go together like Adam Sandler and dick jokes, so if you aren’t a film buff or a…
Manufactured-on-demand discs bring the rockin’ 60s artifacts Hold On! and How I Won the War to light.
When I set out to chronicle the musical offerings of America’s supermarkets, pharmacies and other not-quite-cutout bins in this column, I expected to find a lot of silly junk or…
The man whose name isn’t Herman reflects on making movies with the Hermits, praises Graham Gouldman, and speaks highly of the Shaggs.
May 21 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Marvin Gaye’s landmark album What’s Going On. Ken Shane has an appreciation.
Certain musical acts come along that are so original, so different, so forward leaning that their arrival brings irrevocable change to the fabric of pop music…even if chart placements and…
Way Out Wednesday returns for a spell with a mixtape of songs commemorating the Scripps National Spelling Bee!
Jeff Johnson looks back at a horror classic from the ’70s that turns 35 this month.
Dave Steed takes a trip to land of U2, Midge Ure, Ultravox and more as he checks out ’80s rock songs from artists beginning with the letter U.