If you read the bio on their website, Joshua and the Giant is “an independent synth-pop piano project out of Brooklyn, NY.” This is not untrue. What is also not…
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Carl Carlton scored his biggest hit with a cover
That’s all, amen, close the door. It’s the last roundup. The last tracks of the last disc of this seven-disc retrospective set. Before the final rundown, I need to drop…
A wonderfully warm and melodic new album from the core trio of Hannah Marcus, David Grubbs and novelist Rick Moody – rich in its simplicity with acoustic guitars, understated drums,…
Many great Hollywood Westerns were shot in the San Fernando Valley, so it almost seems fitting that an Americana/Texas/Country Rock tour de force like Brady Harris is actually encamped in…
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Caitlin Crosby talks to Popdose about her new EP, Save That Pillow.
Following the releases of new albums by David Bowie, My Bloody Valentine and Justin Timberlake, 2013 might go down as the year of the unexpected comeback (your move, Dr. Dre)….
The other guy from Wham! finally makes an appearance in Bottom Feeders!
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Indeed – Sound The Alarm is an apt title for an artist with the legend and magnitude of the great Booker T. Jones. Back on Stax Records, the label whose…
Another successful year for the festival, but questions remain
Ben Arthur’s If You Look for My Heart doesn’t simply combine the concept album and novel as a way to leverage buyer attention. The two are independent, yet completely interrelated…
As what is presumably the last of the incredible Rhino releases from the archives of The Monkees’ studio works, The Monkees Present is one of the most fascinating since it’s…
If you’re only going to have one hit, make it a great one
Outside Lands came and went last weekend, blowing in and out of the Golden Gate Park with the signature stomp, rock, and dazzle that’s it’s become equanimous with since Another…
New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about the back half of the final disc of this groundbreaking Rhino box set! #11 New Kids On the Block, ”I’ll Be Loving…
New music from, Galleries, David Carbonara, Reva DeVito and Roane Namuh, and The Civil Wars.
On Monday, the pop culture universe let out a collective “meh” when Lady Gaga and Katy Perry rushed their latest singles to radio after dastardly hackers leaked them to the…
This week, a look at R.E.M., The Rentals, Republica and even REO Speedwagon makes a final appearance on the chart.
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was one of the most popular (and epic) rock albums of the 90s, but it still feels kind of underrated. It was a double-disc,…
A new album sheds light on a forgotten soul label
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…
Twenty summers ago Juliana Hatfield gave us her second solo album, a dozen grungy pop songs spouting her love for dead birds, deadbeat sisters, the Del Fuegos, and Henry Rollins’…
So it came to pass that Maxwell’s in Hoboken closed on July 31st. This was difficult for me to digest, even after ample time had gone by since it was…
The next time someone complains that album covers aren’t big enough anymore thanks to CDs and digital music, show them this gallery.
