In today’s installment, we travel to the corner of Aqua Net and Sadness, where we meet a gentle-eyed Hallmark salesman
Music
Shuffle through Michael’s Top Five records of 2012, and share your own!
Andrea Bocelli can sing whatever he wants. But that doesn’t always mean he should
Need advice? Popdose’s advice columnist, circa-1982 “John Cougar” is here to help. Also, he’s an ageless shapeshifter.
Chris Holmes breaks it down to give you his favorite albums of the year that was 2012.
Because nothing says the holidays like a teen idol, a comically oversized bow, and line after line of dick jokes
In ’66 the Young Rascals hit big with Good Lovin’. A year later Groovin’ made them legends.
This is as close as Americans will get these days to a live Blur show.
In today’s installment, we travel back in Mellow time and get O’Sullivaned
There are a lot of great music autobiographies out there, but there are great ones still to be written. Chris Holmes counts down the Top 5.
Dan Fogelberg’s wuss-rock holiday epic “Same Old Lang Syne” is the foundation stone upon which World’s Worst Songs is built. In the Olympics of Suck, it’s Michael Phelps. I have…
As 2012 draws to a close, most of the Popdose writers will painstakingly select their top albums, movies and TV shows of the year with all of the drama of…
It places the gospel in the Cracker Barrel, or it gets the beard again
Scott Malchus has released a book called BASEMENT SONGS. You may know what it’s about.
Popdose’s review of singer-songwriter Ari Hest’s concert in Chicago this weekend.
2012 is the year for unbelievable events, it seems — and the Monkees ”reunion” (minus dearly departed Davy Jones) is not the least of these. Monkeemaniacs turned out in droves,…
Today’s essential download is by a beautiful Brazilian cellist, Dominique Pinto, who performs under the name Dom La Nena. Brazilian Girls, the debut album by the band of the same name…
Does omnipotence give Santa an unfair advantage with the ladies? We investigate
Dave Steed presents his top 10 metal albums of 2012.
Modern holiday hymn, or fart joke? This Mellowmas, you don’t have to choose
Edinburgh pop/rock quartet, The Winter Tradition, rattle off arena sized stadium hooks so effortlessly, you wonder why every band doesn’t do it. Granted, they’re still in the club era of…
It’s inappropriate. It’s borderline racist. It’s Mellowmas
Jimmie I got your number. I want to make you mine, Jimmie Rodgers I got your number. 867-5309. Rhino records, 1957. Song for the soundtrack of your date.
Boldly going where no band has gone before: Keith Richards leads the Rolling Stones into their 50th year with two bow-down London gigs
The Friday Five: show us yours, and we’ll show you ours!
Now here’s a little story we got to tell / About two bad brothers at the gates of Mell
