In this week’s
How a last-ditch career-saver became a power pop classic.
On Friday night PBS stations will premiere Pearl Jam Twenty as a part of their Emmy Award winning American Masters Series.
Ben Folds sums up an amazing career in a slightly uneven package.
Last week was about as vanilla as it’s possible for things to get when Gamblor is involved. The computer only made three bets, all of which were hedge bets on…
Brenda Holloway isn’t often included in the discussion of great female Motown vocalists. Ken Shane tells us why she deserves to be.
Popdose dissects two Tears For Fears albums featuring Roland Orzabal as sole bandmember, Elemental and Raoul And The Kings Of Spain.
Popdose reviews the new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto, and wonders if they’re stealing from U2’s playbook a little too often.
Ween is one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands too interesting to ever be extremely popular that should have been one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands that eventually scored…
Scott Malchus strongly recommends the coming of age film, “Submarine.”
Ohio-based indie band the Big Sweet are very young, they’re teenagers even, but they rock a very sophisticated sound, which is that finely tuned, happily fussed about power pop sound…
Oh, so this is what that farmer was so upset about. Rihanna on WhoSay
We bid adieu to 1965 and take up a debate on the merits of Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.”
Can’t the populist right and left just get along?
Johnny Bacardi dba David Allen Jones is back once more with capsule reviews of recent comics and graphic novel releases.
In the first episode of “Songs of Freedom”, Popdose music contributor Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez look at R.E.M., P.J. Harvey, and how the internet changes the way we look at political music.
Live albums are hard. They’re rarely good, because they rarely deliver on what they aim to be: an encapsulation of an act’s live show experience. But they just can’t; a…
Credit, or discredit, the late Grover Washington Jr. with setting the template for the whole smooth jazz thing. There was always more to him than that. Really.
via press release: Amidst The Roots’ busy schedule, from performing as the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to recently hosting a Pre-Emmy Awards jam session, the legendary…
via press release: Wale and Kid Cudi have officially buried the hatchet and are now “Focused” on the future. Wale’s new track “Focused” featuring Kid Cudi just premiered on Complex.com….
Mick Jagger’s business sense is almost as legendary as his voice, stage presence, and lips. But since his new project Superheavy isn’t selling, Bob Lefsetz thinks he’s out of touch with his audience and has readymade steps to break it.
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…
I’m not going anywhere for the next couple of days. Because I have the complete run of The Monkees—32 episodes of season 1, and 26 episodes of season 2—spread across…
For more than 75 years, Kirkus Reviews has served as the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and ordinary readers alike. And every Monday, Popdose crashes the gates of this…
The wait is over. New music from Maynard James Keenan is finally here.
I wasn’t so interested in offering my two cents. Instead, I wanted to hear my daughter’s thoughts and, truthfully, just spend some alone time with her.
Bob Cashill witnesses A Separation, experiences Melancholia, and feels Shame.
Author Matthew Chojnacki has a tremendous new book devoted to the great cover art found on 7″ & 12″ vinyl singles in the ’80s. Here are his desert island picks.
Johnny Gill has a new album out, and 1985’s “Half-Crazy” is the subject of this week’s Jheri Curl Fridays column.