What happens to the media in a ”post-fact” era? Can we discern truth from propaganda? Has Russia simply hacked American journalism, in every meaning of the word? Do we all…
Popdose Roundtable
Popdose’s staff discusses the failure of HBO’s “Vinyl.”
The best of the worst of movie and TV cliches. If you’ve seen ’em once, you know ’em all!
This time out, the staff sorta slips down the Grohl hole and Don Henley may be a p****.
This article can be summed up in one quote: “I will pay someone to shoot you, Walsh.”
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for April 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
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….
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for February 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for January 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
The band Rush finally has Vapor Trails, a poster-child for too-loud modern mixes, spruced up. Was it worth it?
Following yesterday’s surprise casting announcement of Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Superman/Batman film, it took all of three seconds for a great tidal wave of fan rage to…
Want to relive the world of mediocre ’90s alternative rock? No? What if you could do so on a boat?!
The Popdose staff weighs in on the departure of vocalist Geoff Tate from venerable progressive metal band QueensrÁ¿che.
The increased portability of music is, in the end, all about a shift in power.
Vinyl is the beginning. Sure, wax cylinders came before, but the true concept of the album is a vinyl joint.
The digital revolution has been the music equivalent of sequencing the human genome.
Axl Rose sent a (no) thank you card to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Popdose staff couldn’t help but analyze it.
A rollicking Popdose Roundtable that explains why you’ve been listening to Rumours in the wrong order, among other things.
Literally almost fifty years in the making, last week saw the release of The SMiLE Sessions, a boxed set of material from the Beach Boys chronicling their work on the…
via Spinner: INXS singer J.D. Fortune has been kicked out of the band for the second time in under four years. Fortune replaced original frontman Michael Hutchence after winning the…
On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like these two bands have a lot in common, but look beyond that: These mainstays of classic rock radio into a Deathmatch were both from LA, did mountains of drugs, and screwed anything that crossed their paths. Both were laughed at by the critics but still loved by millions of people whose tastes haven’t changed since they were old enough to know better. Both had good guitarists, shitty drummers, and lyrics that alternated between pomposity and narcissistic misogyny. So which group is more evil? Leave it to the Popdose staff to answer the question. It’s a Popdose Deathmatch: The Lizard King vs. The Cryptkeeper. Let’s get ready to…ah, fuck it.
There’s a noted lack of political commentary in modern pop music. Is that such a bad thing?
We love action. We’d love it more if it didn’t leave us feeling queasy and confused.
From chicken to coffee and Jimmy Buffett to Ryan Tedder, the Popdose staff recounts those musicians whose merchandising presences are grossly oversold.
From Mashable: Ticketmaster, the event ticketing property of Live Nation, is enhancing its interactive seat maps so that ticket buyers and event-goers can see where their Facebook friends are sitting,…
There was no immediate warning about whether audience members in the first five rows might be spattered with stray bits of clay, but on Monday the producers of the musical…
In conjunction with Chris Holmes’ fantastic Friday Mixtape, here are more Popdose musical turning points.
Rock stars? Grace and dignity?! Bwaahhh haaahhh haaahhh! (Here are a few reasons why not, provided by the Popdose Roundtable.)
We’re such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs.