Here are five musicians who were kicked in the butt by love…or rather, three and one double-dipper.
If you’re a softer Soft Cell fan like me, it’s been hard to keep up with Marc Almond all these years. If you’re more ambitious, it’s been quite the ride…
“Beyond the Lights” is an excellent new film by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
“Maison Close” is a French television series that takes place in a Paris brothel during the 1870s.
The disparity that exists between modern musical content and the real lives of its listeners is a very real problem. Lorde, for one, has been an outspoken critic of privilege…
You may as well give up any notions of resistance to The Weeklings, because this is quite simply, the good old fashioned rock and roll we ALL grew up with…
Hand Cannot Erase has chops to spare and grand ambitions, but what it has most is a soul.
A gem from the ’80s college rock scene gets a brand new run.
The band invites you to a soiree in West Germany tonight at 1979.
Like a breath of warmer spring air, the opening, chiming strums of “Wake Me When Tomorrow’s Here”, the first track on George Usher and Lisa Burns’ The Last Day Of…
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From the moment “Outta My Head” begins, I love this album. Liz Longley’s self-titled debut on the legendary Sugar Hill label is a thing of beauty. Her voice, filled with…
New music from Foo Fighters, Nita Chawla, The Juliana Hatfield Three, and The Love§trange
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In Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture, editors Alex DiBlasi and Victoria Willis examine the intertwining of “geek culture” and music, in a methodical and very academic fashion. …
They like you very much, but they are not the hell “your” whales.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Having been a fan of The Bangles from the moment I first heard “The Real World” sometime in late ’82, I was always curious-to-irritated as to why the five song…
The Orlons opened with a trio of smashes before drifting apart
Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons go to war in the Academy Award winning “Whiplash”
Lee DeWyze isn’t the first person to hear the soon-to-be-disproven words, “your life is about to change forever” on a reality TV show, nor will he be the last. It…
From the opening strums of Big Sky Country, the newest album – 6th, overall – from Sweden’s Sofia Talvik, you know you’re in for an aural pleasure experience. Her sweet,…
The Staple Singers’ 1965 album, recorded shortly after the Selma marches, gets expanded and reissued.
The Disney/Marvel mashup “Big Hero 6” is for the kids, and that’s okay.
This morning, the Cleveland Browns unveiled a new logo. Well, it’s not so much of a new logo as it is a slight change in color and a different font…
fun., Imagine Dragons and Foster the People are HUGE bands band with members that you can’t name and frontmen you couldn’t pick out of a police lineup. None of em make…
After a lot of prayers, God has finally built a better Bieber. More talent. Less antics to serve as TMZ fodder. Leroy Sanchez hails from Spain and is winding his…
To say that Bill Murray is getting better with age is an understatement; that he chooses interesting, meaty roles would probably be an accurate assumption. Going back to his masterfully…
Call the roles “Oscar-bait” if you must, but often the winners lose just as much.
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