The legendary songwriters had a smash of their own in ’84
Music
9,224 Articles
0
10
Ted Asregadoo and John Young
10 Min Read
When they took off the makeup, did KISS have good records? Um, yeah!
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
This English band, in the tradition of Paul Weller/Blur/Oasis, etc. are back with a new single. It’s a catchy song on the whole – but it’s empty in many ways: …
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
Birmingham, Alabama native/Los Angeles-based Beth Thornley returns with her fourth release/first EP, Septagon and this is fast becoming a favorite of mine. Ms. Thornley knows how to construct a song…
0
1
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
0
6
Justin Vellucci
6 Min Read
Curtis Eller, banjo-picker extraordinaire, presents listeners with a quintessentially American cause celeb. Few work harder to drum up and rally a crowd with their song-stories, and, though his father was…
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
Punk In Africa is a surprise to me. First, because it is a concept I did not know existed – for someone who had lived the punk-rock life or worshiped…
0
1
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The 200th edition of Soul Serenade features the Jive Five
0
3
Dw. Dunphy
3 Min Read
The remarkable new album by Oslo’s Gazpacho blows away the conventions of rock, prog, and the makeup of the “epic” song.
0
1
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
0
11
Keith Creighton
11 Min Read
The last time I breathed the same air as Chris Ballew, lead singer and basitar player for The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA from here on out),…
0
4
Dw. Dunphy
4 Min Read
They probably made out to “You and Me” a year after they grounded you for blasting “Elected!”
0
1
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Modern pop music tends to be so personality-driven that getting an email from a band like Tower is as refreshing as it is bewildering. Who are they? “A new band…
0
1
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
Visit the Americans at their official site, and hear more music — including their latest release, Home Recordings — here. There’s an old story I remember, maybe in a book…
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
Rock River, the new solo album from Deena Shoshkes of New Jersey’s The Cucumbers, is a breath of fresh pop air that I welcome. For someone who’s put out great…
0
3
Dw. Dunphy
3 Min Read
The lyrics scan like a battle cry — so why does Aerosmith’s “Dream On” sound like defeat?
0
1
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Singer/songwriter Richard Shindell appeared recently in Massachusetts
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
This album, of which a performance called “Look Behind You” is based around, is a highly personal memoir by Irish singer/songwriter Steafán Hanvey. Released in 2013, Nuclear Family is about…
0
10
Popdose Staff
10 Min Read
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for March 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month….
0
1
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
If Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Tom Waits, it might grow up to sound like Luke Elliot‘s “Virginia”:…
0
4
Popdose Staff
4 Min Read
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
0
2
Michael Parr
2 Min Read
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
0
1
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
This turned out a lot better than I expected. I’ve always had a weird sort of crush on Joan Didion – or at least the twentysomething ingenue she comes across…
0
1
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
It began in a barbershop and became the Parliament-Funkadelic juggernaut
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
I keep getting lucky in hearing melodic, thoughtful and American music, which has been my taste for a while. Yet again, a warm new voice is heard in Noah Gundersen,…
0
1
Dave Lifton
1 Min Read
This June, a group of four excellent singer-songwriters will launch a small tour of the East Coast under the name ”The Parlor Sessions” (dates below). To promote the tour, they’ve…
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
The music on this album is fantastic. Great sounding; great arrangements, so many delicious nuances in each track – a gloriously lush album. Good, strong lyrics abound – these are…
0
1
Rob Ross
1 Min Read
A teenage, “hard rock” band – well, yes. This Southern California quartet delivers a strong 5-song mini-album with some nicely heavy numbers and good production. There’s a very ’70’s feel…
0
5
Dave Steed
5 Min Read
The final installment of Bottom Feeders is here with Weird Al, Trisha Yearwood and of course a little ZZ Top to end it.
0
2
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
The new album Gravitas features a sound closer to “classic” Asia.