If you’re the type of person who likes your Halloween to last all year, do I have a music video for you. I doubt that Adam Silvestri, aka Radiator King,…
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My first exposure to the bizarre genius of U-Men came when I first tracked down a vinyl copy of the scene-setting C/Z Records comp. Deep Six back in the early…
Bodies of Water emerged from L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood in the mid-00’s with Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink, a winding trip through the most fervent sounds of weird…
Popdose has the exclusive premiere of a track from Kevin Jenkins’ tribute to Joni Mitchell
Anybody as active in a scene as Misra Records head and Pittsburgh indie-rock impresario Jeff Betten has to have a soft spot for the music. And, man oh man, does…
Fats Domino’s storied career began with a 1950 hit
Three very different types of recordings, yet connected in an abstract way.
It’s hard not to view Primitive Race’s sophomore outing, Soul Pretender, as the next chapter in Chuck Mosley’s epic comeback story. On the record, out Friday on Metropolis, Mosley is…
So we’ve previewed and interviewed Sean Kelly of A Fragile Tomorrow in anticipation of his solo debut release, Time Bomb, Baby and it can be clearly said this album is…
Daniel Suddes imagines what the sequels to five ’80s cult classics would look like.
Pittsburgh’s The Gotobeds are offering their two cents on a vintage blast of punk energy — and it is mighty good. Dubbed Definitely Not a Red Kross EP, the new…
Once in awhile, a band, a sound, comes along that smushes together the far corners of your musical tastes. For me, that’s the retro sounds of the ’60s/’70s and the…
There’s electronic buzzing, post-something refrains, borderline-tribal heat, and occasional Rhodes-and-bass grooves. There’s also, however, more mutant pop bridges than you could swing a dead cat at, if that’s your idea…
(Archive.) Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Using photos and video from our Happy Hour show as a calling card, Chuck and Tom have been hustling for gigs — and so we…
Popdose hosts the exclusive premiere of the latest video from Sam Huber and director Dylan Mars Greenberg
In which I come face to face with the fact that I am still ‘Sitting on the Floor Playing with Tapes’ David, and always will be.
He’s going it on his own again and it sounds great. Tomorrow, after a decade-plus at the helm of the thought-rock ensemble/b(r)and Skeletons, Matt Mehlan will strike out on his…
The truth is I had to put aside long-standing biases towards Chris Barron simply by virtue of the fact that I never liked Spin Doctors. I equated them with everything…
In 1965 the Toys scored with a song that had an 18th-century melody
Dreamy, ethereal, other-worldly — all could be used to describe Keep the Ocean Inside, Pittsburgher Maureen ”Maux” Boyle’s engaging sophomore outing as The Seven Fields of Aphelion and her first…
Watter — a Louisville post-rock band that’s high in promise due to its parentage, if nothing else — simply fails to deliver on the oft-disjointed but occasionally ambitious History of…
We last chatted with Dan Zanes back in 2012 when the Del Fuegos got back together for a new EP and brief reunion tour. After he got that out of…
Goddamn, this is just so good. Period. Never mind who the members of this band are – well, okay, you should know; you need to know. Actor/raconteur Bill Mumy (yes,…
But let me tell you something The sisters are not going for that no more ‘Cause we realize two things That you aren’t doing anything for us We can better…
The sounds coming out of the new release from Phoenix-based The Oxford Coma aren’t exactly those you would hope to buoy you up if you’re having a bad day. If…
In an era full of quirky bands, XTC may have been the quirkiest. Their debut album featured primary singer/songwriter Andy Partridge leering at the Statue of Liberty amid musical settings…
Do you ever wonder what would happen if great producers recorded records of their own? Okay, some of them, like Mark Ronson, Terry Melcher, and any number of hip-hop greats….
When Chad Beattie, a 24-year-old from Baltimore, first told me about his bedroom project Yes Selma — a Dancer In The Dark nod — he referenced a lot of the…
The antique-garde is rearing its head again. After seven years of silence, Pinataland founder David Wechsler — whose bizarre orchestrette once emanated from near the epicenter of a NYC micro-scene…
Popdose presents Wendy Sweetlove — with a lavish and layered vocal, her new album Dirty Sunday has all the makings of a classic soul album, tinged with modern production. Her ability to maintain the…