Just because a song gets stuck at #3 on the charts doesn’t mean it’s not an all-time great.
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Free Energy’s latest is unpretentious, and every now and then that’s all you need.
Good storytelling involves not only what you leave in, but what you leave out. What’s left out is what makes Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” so compulsively listenable over…
You’ve likely heard her songs in commercials, TV shows, and movies, or seen her as the fresh young face of Days Inn. She’s Jess Penner — a thoroughly 21st century…
Well first of all, if the seven of us ended up on a deserted island, it would go from deserted to crowded. We’d be in the middle of a population…
Popdose favorite, Caro Emerald, has landed in America and as we speak is putting the finishing touches on her US Live debut. She will hit the stage at the El…
For 40 years, pop music has been Sweden’s top export. While the legacies of Ace of Base, Roxette and Europe might be widely debated around the POPDOSE forums, you can’t…
New music from The Airborne Toxic Event, Moss, The Staves, and The Chaw!
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Midge Ure has engendered quite a bit of goodwill over the years, thanks to a long musical career spanning myriad genres. In the 70s and 80s alone, the Scotland native…
Lil’ Wayne, Limp Bizkit, Lit….this could be the downfall of the entire series!
It looks like the Hellgoat is having a seizure thanks to the sheer volume of Clamfight!
The Hellgoat brings you fist pumping metal from Audrey Horne.
Working for the weekend? How about a quick break to play along with this week’s Friday Five?
Years ago, I worked at a radio station in small-town Illinois. An on-air discussion about Woodstock prompted one of the sales reps to collar me in the hall afterward. “I…
The Hellgoat finds his first perfect album of 2013!
Rob Smith meditates on memory, music, and the Beatles in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
Even in an era of dance crazes not every one took off
If you had to pick only 10 albums from the entire history of jazz with which to start a collection, these would be great choices.
Wait, what? Chicago’s third single, “25 or 6 to 4,” was released in the summer of 1970, and it is flat awesome. It proves just how hard a horn band…
The Hellgoat reviews the new Denouncement Pyre record.
New music from artists you may or may not have heard of…
The Hellgoat loves crust punk and Wartorn bring it crusty to the extreme.
It’s hard to believe the original incarnation of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper) has been back together for close to eight…
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Parlour to Parlour is back! After a year-long hiatus, the beloved video interview series is reborn in 2013 in a live talk show format.
The Lemonheads meet Huey Lewis in this week’s Bottom Feeders.
James Levy is a gifted New York coffee house singer who clearly has friends in high places. Guy Berryman of Coldplay produced his fantastic album with duet partner Allison Pierce…
Meet the Hellgoat’s long lost cousin, the Yellowgoat!
