Ken’s Shane annual gift guide
Music
Their long musical partnership has been good to David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash. During the period when they added Neil Young to the group, it was very good…
Sandals and a robe mean never having to stay in tune
Booker T & The MG’s never equaled the success of their first record
Now that Rush is at long last in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s as good a time as any to look at their best material… from the ’90s to today.
Everybody already know it’s Mellowmas, so I’ma tell ’em. Aight?
On the surface, Duncan Sheik’s Covers Eighties Remixed might fall into the ”absolutely inessential” category. After all, as its name implies, this covers compilation is itself a remixed version of…
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Laura Miller wrote a brilliant essay called “The Kitschification of September 11,” which appeared in Salon in January 2002. Miller discussed the blizzard of sentimental…
Read inside for your chance to win a copy of Led Zeppelin’s new two-CD/two-DVD live set, “Celebration Day.”
Yesterday, we insulted Jon Secada. Today, he will have his revenge
Random plurals, a synth banjo, and screaming — yes, it’s Mellowmas
Lenny Kravitz spends most of his time as a Bottom Feeder and Kristine W. crosses over the dance charts this week.
It’s Horst and Sharon Hartung’s world, and we’re just living in it
In today’s installment, we travel to the corner of Aqua Net and Sadness, where we meet a gentle-eyed Hallmark salesman
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
