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Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Christina Rubino’s new music video begins with a quote from Cesar A. Cruz: “Art should comfort the disturbed… and disturb the comfortable.” The video, which accompanies her new…
One of the most significant television events of 2017 is the impending release of the Twin Peaks revival. Fans of the series are waiting to see how the 26 year…
Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out Wednesday”. It featured odd albums from my…
This is an amazing moment; a new single from one of our greatest songwriters/musicians/singers. A heartbreakingly powerful track and video to go along with it. Popdose is very proud to…
Rob Smith reviews recent music from elder statesmen Ian Hunter and Willie Nelson in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
For Australian prog rocker Dan Webb, timeliness is everything. He set a self-imposed deadline to finish recording by Election Day and to release his new LP, Oedipus the King, on Inauguration…
Join us for this week’s show, in which The 1975 travel back to 1989.
Inez and Charlie Foxx scored a big hit in ’63 but never fully broke out of the novelty box
The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
Willodean’s Awesome Life Decisions: Side One is sure to be 2017’s breakup album for the modern introvert. The six-song EP is the first of four to be released in 2017. The Los…
Although I’ve migrated between coasts for the better part of 10 years, I still represent my home state of Ohio whenever possible. That includes, of course, championing artists from the…
An artist who’s wholly planted in 2017 but whose music sounds utterly timeless, Rhode Island’s own Emeline knows the value of technology in building her career. A social media sensation,…
I cannot stop listening to The Painted Bird / Amidst, a carefully self-released affair that is, without question, the most riveting and enveloping record I’ve reviewed in months. How’s that…
This debut album, Standing At The Precipice, from Chicago duo Natalie Alms and Ollie Davidson – Almond & Olive – are very serious in what they present here. Songs that…
The year is young, and even though Emperor Cheat-o just took office, the Women’s March around the world gave us plenty of hope to cling to. Besides relentless advocacy, another way to…
Your friends are liars., your family in pieces, and your country is confused. What do you do next?
It’s no secret that the 1980s were music video’s heyday. With the advent of MTV and cable television, music was suddenly visual and artists wasted no time getting creative. Even…
Two weeks ago today, I was sitting in the Fort Lauderdale airport, and my biggest concern was whether or not I’d make it home for my son’s Cub Scout sleepover…
Amanda Homi wants to take the wheel in this exclusive Popdose Video Premiere.
Featured artists this week include Julian Cope, Keane, and Electronic, and we close with arguably the two greatest singers of all time.
A swirling guitar and bass riff envelopes this absolutely great track, which upon first listen makes me think back to The (magnificent) Teardrop Explodes’ legendary and epic “Camera Camera”. All…
A revived group of Ovations with a new lineup scored a hit in 1972
This third album from Spring Lake, New Jersey’s Black Clouds may be the charm because, goddamn – it rocks. Seriously. Not dissimilarly to Foo Fighters (say what you will; I…
Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
For awhile now, I’ve been intrigued by the burgeoning musical hotbed of Asheville, NC. I had a friend who worked in a coffee shop there who wanted to break into…
At first blush, Papa M’s Highway Songs LP is a mess or, at best perhaps, unbalanced. But first blushes, like a journalist’s first drafts of history, are frequently pockmarked with…
This wonderfully low key collection of songs comes from Pennsylvania-based Caroline Reese and her band, The Drifting Fifth; a gathering of 11 acoustic based songs that mix the best elements…
Lovers keep on lovin’. Believers keep on believin’. Sleepers just stop sleepin’. Cause it won’t be too long. What’s THAT supposed to mean? Aside from the Beatles’ 1965-1969 output, it’s…
Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden’s pristine and bright-eyed collaboration on the 1997 Verve LP Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is a decent point of departure for Jacob Duncan’s The…