Before we celebrate all the women who absolutely owned pop culture in 2024, let’s hear it for the boys. Today’s second to last post in our 2024 Rewind series celebrates timeless icons who still have plenty left to say.
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We DO mean to name drop, because where else are Ariana Grande, Taylor Hawkins, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Demi Lovato, Susanna Hoffs. Cheap Trick, and Pearl Jam all going to appear on the same list, let alone the same album?
Could this be THE greatest post in our 2024 Rewind series so far? The “The List” is now in your hands.
While Brat Summer is all about ‘Hyper Pop’, the Summer of Love gave rise to Power Pop. Popdose pays tribute to the scene while celebrating the best new records in the genre.
Hopefully Trump’s tariff war won’t affect the deluge of top tier talent crashing our shores from Europe. In today’s 2024 in Rewind, we toast just a few of the year’s most delicious musical imports.
From the second coming of the Smiths, to Northern Ireland’s leap to the forefront of Global Hip Hop, 2024 saw some truly spectacular artists blast into the mainstream — here are some of our favorites.
Do Best Album Lists Still Matter? In the age of microculture, Popdose views 50 of the year’s best albums through Gen-X Spex.
Single Play puts the spotlight on The Cure, Linkin Park, and Mark Bacino
The 40th anniversary of the Tragically Hip is a milestone that’s been marked in a number of special ways. There’s the new documentary, No Dress Rehearsal, helmed by Canadian filmmaker…
I usually write an essay for these, but here in our third presidential cycle with authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism as the official Republican platform, I increasingly find I have nothing to…
Some 30+ years after the last album by synth pop legends Propaganda, co-founder Ralf Dörper takes us deep inside the making of Album #3 (in stores now)
“The Vinyl Diaries” names a handful of great records unavailable on vinyl and begs for their reissue.
October has come again, my children of the night. The sun sinks low in the northern sky, and . . . something else rises from the earth once more to…
If you love Harry Styles, Vampire Weekend, and Delta Spirit the way Popdose does, we likely just discovered your favorite new band…
Timeless Sophistication: A Look Back at Sade’s “Diamond Life”
As we narrow down our Top 50 Albums of 2024, here’s a preview of a dozen or so epic new releases still to come between now and Election Day.
“…with a strong female lead” is in the Single Play spotlight
We waited 30 years for a new album by these synth pop legends, so why wait another few months for it to come out? Popdose presents a very advance review of Propaganda’s self-titled third album due in October.
What do you do with thousands of copies of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Nick of Time’? Find out in ‘The Vinyl Diaries.’
In the spotlight are New York City-based As For The Future, the power duo of Robert Planet and Alison Krauss, and old soul Luck Daye
Echo & The Bunnymen brought their “Songs To Learn & Sing” Tour to San Francisco on June 6th, 2024 at the Warfield Theater.
The 4th date on The Chameleons extensive 2024 North American Tour was a blistering Strange Times-focused set that also celebrated the band’s high charting new single, “Where Are You?”
40 years ago, U2 went into the laboratory with Professors Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois to experiment with ambient sonics and more fragmented lyrics on “The Unforgettable Fire”
To celebrate the release of the new EP, Where Are You? The Chameleons, Popdose takes an aerial tour of the Manchester band’s vast discography and legacy.
Three Must-Hear New Songs Besides, You Know, The 31 Songs On “The Tortured Poets Department”
Released on January 13th 1984…the Pretenders’ “Learning to Crawl” turns 40 years old.
Who’s that knocking on the door? It’s the latest from Allie Sandt, Kamasi Washington, and Mark Knopfler that’s who!
B sides, bonus tracks, and digital deluxe editions — are these lost audio treasures another way the music industry shakes 80 percent of their profits from 20 percent of the fans? Popdose investigates.