Every once in awhile, a strong female vocalist comes along who, besides having the chops to carry some truly radio-ready anthems, adds her own voice to a list of lady…
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And now for something completely different…Twenty-five years in, Chris Rael’s group Church of Betty mixes Indian instrumentation and rhythms with a Western pop sensibility. The group’s new album Swirled World…
This is something very special; very powerful and totally from the heart. Memphis legends Vicki Loveland and Van Duren, collectively known as Loveland Duren, release their new single, “Johnny Boy”…
Punk is dead? Not so, says NYC’s Bad Mary, a high-voltage punk-rock outfit ready to rock your face off. Perhaps what’s even more punk than the band’s sound is its…
Probably one of the most buzzed-about bands to emerge from Australia in the past decade, indie/alternative rockers Monks of Mellonwah have garnered both critical and commercial acclaim. Last year, they…
If you’ve been looking for some new sounds featuring kick ass heavy fuzzed out guitars, look no further and wrap your ears around the music of RavenEye, a new power…
In 2010, Canada’s hard-rocking duo the Unravelling released their debut album to critical acclaim; the press dubbed it an “industrial-infused metal masterpiece.” They showed true promise of channeling venerated bands…
This is one of those happier incidents where a band breaks up and comes back stronger than before. The short story is Will Currie and The Country French called it…
Some musicians are destined for their craft; some are pre-destined. For George Castrinos of the Saint James Band, his penchant for guitar was almost mystical. ”When I was a kid my…
This week, two exciting funk workouts have been blowing up my speakers. The first, a surprise track leak by Prince & 3rdeyegirl called ‘What If…‘; the second, ‘We’ll Be Free’…
Last year, LA indie darlings Ships Have Sailed released Someday, their first six-song EP, chock full of those dreamy SoCal melodies you expect from rising stars of the region. Since Someday‘s release,…
Back in August, I told you about a little band called Just Walden, their album High Street Barton Blues, and frontman Danny Ferraro, who went from Wall Street to London and…
Everyone thought it was crazy for the drummer of Nirvana to go solo as an axe-wielding frontman and look how that turned out for him. Now that Foo Fighters are…
Brooklyn singer/songwriter Hillary Capps shares with us at Popdose her latest video effort for the track “Love Love Love” and we, in turn, want to share it with you! The…
In the vein of other iconic voices (both literal and lyrical) from the past few years, including Taylor Swift and Christina Perri comes New York’s Alice Sungurov, a 15-year-old who’s…
Popdose.com exclusively premieres Corley’s title track “Available Light” as a free download. (PHOTO CREDIT: Faith Cohen (c) 2014)
What do you get when you combine smooth, flowing, almost-spoken verses with an ear-wormy harmonica lick, simple acoustic guitars, a steady backbeat and a guy whose name might imply he’s…
Popdose presents the exclusive video premiere of Michael Sackler-Berner’s “She Loves Love,’ produced by Marshall Crenshaw and Stewart Lerman.
Popdose is pleased to bring you the exclusive premiere of the second video from Connecticut’s LINES WEST and their debut album Stop, Look & Listen, which was reviewed here just…
The brainchild of NYC-based singer/songwriter Emilia Cataldo, Nehedar combines powerful anti-folk with an amalgam of trendy sounds reminiscent of St. Vincent, Regina Spektor and Patti Smith. Cataldo’s songs are traditionally…
Everything old is new again. Jay Brown is an artist living a kind of dual existence. On one hand, he’s a seasoned singer/songwriter, having cut his chops in bands like…
Though they’ve been men-about-town on the LA music circuit, building connections with members of Panic! At the Disco and honing their own modern rock sound, the three fellas of Westwood…
Wherein three Popdose staff members reveal previously unpublished correspondence between drumming legends Neil Peart and Peter Criss.
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…
Could this be the music geek equivalency of The Big Bang Theory? Last week, the breathtakingly beautiful (but smart as a whip, so there goes that analogy) Gabriella Cilmi befriended POPDOSE during…
Folk/Celtic/Rock/Gypsy/Americana/Klezmer Washington DC based band, Scythian, are set to release a new album It’s Not Too Late in July. Like a lot of independent bands, Scythian’s latest release was done…
San Francisco’s Big Light is a band you’ll be hearing about. Their new album, Animals In Bloom, will be released on March 2, and Popdose is the exclusive host of the first single, “Monster.”