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Johnny Nash’s trip to Jamaica in 1968 led to one of the first U.S. reggae hits
Popdose presents – exclusively – from Brooklyn-based indie blues-soul singer/songwriter James VIII his newest track, “Blueberry Wine”. With such a wide range of influences, James VIII’s sound is not easily…
Frog Eyes’ frontman Carey Mercer has said Violet Psalms — the band’s goodbye record, out late last week on Paper Bag — was written and recorded like a debut, ”when…
I’ve never liked the concept of the “guitar gods” – Page is alright, but I look at Zeppelin as a whole; I never cared for Eric Clapton and there are…
Brighton-based duo Immersion, made up of Wire frontman Colin Newman & Minimal Compact’s Malka Spigel, will release their new album Sleepless on June 15th via ‘swim~’. Popdose is pleased to…
Denise LaSalle earned the title “Queen of the Blues” with a series of legendary recordings and live performances
The music industry is cruel to … well, pretty much everyone. But it’s especially awful to women who make music-industry men drool. Consider the hand-wrenching over Liz Phair on the…
Another new, upcoming young voice, Danielle Cormier, 21, is a singer-songwriter who she credits her love for the arts from seeing her first Broadway show at five years old. She…
I am not afraid to admit that the themed shows are better because my friends’ song suggestions are better than mine.
No one brought the funk to the ’70s more than the originator of the “slap” bass, Larry Graham
Chicago singer-songwriter Andy Pratt follows up last year’s acclaimed Horizon Disrupted album (reviewed here on Popdose) with a new E.P., Further Disruption, culled from the same Steve Albini-engineered sessions that…
From the early notes of ”Failed Celestial Creatures” — the meditative, 20-minute-long title track to the unanticipated debut collaboration between guitar-composer David Grubbs and Japanese musician Taku Unami, out Friday…
There are two epic songs battling for your attention on Loam and Sky, the new EP from The Elephant Parallax out Friday, and either could launch a fit description of…
WIRE. Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Gotobed. The name automatically catapults me into a different time; a different mind and many emotions. Without a doubt, they are…
Now, this is the way EXPERIMENTAL music is supposed to sound — epic, thought-provoking and loud! The Austerity Program guitarist J. Foley departs sonically from his pseudo-full-time noise-rock/art-metal gig with…
(Archive.) Saturday, May 6, 2017 — 7:45 AM It’s a cold, misty morning, unseasonable for May. I am driving my little Honda — its brakes finally mended — down back…
This new album from Jodee Lewis, Buzzard’s Bluff is a cathartic release from deep within the Missouri Ozarks. It draws inspiration from growing up in a small town, the trials…
As pig-fuck goes, this is some of the best. For those just tuning in, pig-fuck is the unfortunately titled genre of explosive post-punk that, at first, was cut in Chicago…
Making music for families and kids isn’t something a lot of artists dream of doing. Some artists stumble into it. Some artists do it out of necessity. Some artists have…
The Independents ran eight singles up the charts in their all-too-brief career
Accord, New York’s Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since 2006. The acid-cowboy quintet of Jason Broome (The Westport Sunrise Sessions), Rob Norris (East Of Venus, The…
Popdose first met rock journalist and power pop musician Ken Sharp through the supernova that is Omnivore recording artist, Cait Brennan, and her producer Fernando Perdomo. All three of their…
Popdose is both pleased and proud to bring you a brand new, exclusive premiere from one of our favorite artists, Wade Jackson. “Emotion: Devotion” is the new single and video;…
Music consumption seems to be diverging into two directions. To the right we have streaming, where complex algorithms turn you onto new bands, but also move you so quickly from…
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett promised the Concrete and Gold world tour would be unpredictable, and they certainly delivered in Austin, Texas when…
(Archive.) March 2017 Playing that first gig after injury feels like a dam breaking. I’ve been working on songs all winter — singing bits and pieces of vocal melody into…
I know it’s utterly blasphemous to suggest in underground circles, but my first point of entry when listening to Dylan Carlson’s new ”Conquistador,” the title track to a series of…
A true sign of parental love and sacrifice: letting your daughter play Fergie on your podcast.