It’s the Friday Five! We’ll show you ours if you show us yours.
Music
While the kids were buying Beatles records, their parents were buying Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
The Main Ingredient turned tragedy into triumph and left behind some of the most indelible singles of the ’70s.
Hand crafted instruments by Tristan Shone turn into the brand new Author & Punisher album.
Thus begins our journey into AM Gold: 1972. And hey, look, Three Dog Night is still hanging around!
Hutchinson discusses his new album, “Moving Up Living Down.”
The man with the 1,000 watt smile, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, mixes it up with the lost early 70s recordings of Penny & the Quarters for tonight’s date songs.
That orgasmic look on Mick Hucknall’s face? He just read our latest Jheri Curl Fridays column. Click to achieve that same look of ecstacy.
A new setting for some classic songs makes for one of the finest concert films in recent memory.
Most people even a little familiar with indie rock know the story of Jeff Mangum. As the man behind Neutral Milk Hotel, one of the 90s more brilliant and original…
“So who the f#*k is Jamie Kent?” leads off Jamie Kent’s bio, and it’s a fair question — although he’s about to release his sophomore album, Navigation, chances are you…
Wyatt Overman retraces the steps that led to his solo debut.
Axl Rose sent a (no) thank you card to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Popdose staff couldn’t help but analyze it.
Jackie Wilson was a superstar in the ’50s and ’60s. His signature song was the the 1958 smash “Lonely Teardrops.”
Scott Malchus writes about this year’s Great Strides efforts and the Foo Fighters song that didn’t make the cut.
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this edition of Desert Island Discs, Conor Mason makes his picks.
Digging for Gold is turning forty! That’s forty great installments, which is ten more than thirty!
The Portland band City Squirrel are set to release their excellent third album, defeat.
Clever or pretentious? With Sting, it’s always a valid question.
In a recent thought piece on The A.V. Club, Josh Modell ruminated on the dilemma of bands touring endlessly around the hits that made them famous, even as they continue…
Bob Lefsetz will gladly tell you what to do, but not if he has to listen to your crummy music.
The Polyphonic Spree have only released three full-length studio albums in the 12 years since their inception, but I don’t think that relatively limited output has in any way impeded…
A match-up of hairy dudes from New Jersey and the unkempt from Cowley, England. Both deliver tonight’s date and no date songs with plenty of emotion and lots of facial hair. Happy Easter, Love Bunnies.
