Bring out your inner Jew at “The Last Schmaltz” at the Highline Ballroom.
Jane Wiedlin hopes you’ve been naughty this year
Popdose is giving away R.E.M.’s new vinyl box set, ”7IN — 83-88″!
Top Ten lists are inherently flawed in that they are based completely upon subjective opinion. So don’t start complaining that I didn’t mention your favorite album!
The incredibly popular 50th Anniversary British Invasion Tour that circulated along the East and West Coasts last fall is returning for another go-round this spring. Featuring hitmakers from across the pond…
Good sounds all around from Screaming Trees mainman (and erstwhile Queen Of The Stone Age), Mark Lanegan and his band (including the incredible Alain Johannes on guitar and production duties…
Never was a cloudy day (or an original thought)
“Twin Peaks” “Batman” and other TV gift suggestions for 2014.
Helen Mirren serves up Criterions and killer shrews, with a side of Ghibli, on home video.
Courtesy of the amazing Terje Fjelde, whose weekly presence ’round these parts is sorely missed: A refresher course for those of you who might be new to the Mellowmas tradition…or…
Sure, the government’s a mess, the environment is spiraling out of control and American cities are actually burning. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take time to consider some of the reasons…
Times have changed but Stevie Wonder’s message never will
This new 6 song mini-album follows up the stellar 2013 release Someone Else’s Cake. Where that album had varied styles of what could be deemed as “classic power pop”, Pure…
Popdose’s resident “Mystery Science Theater 3000” gurus Dan Wiencek and Tony Redman review the “MST3K Turkey Day Collection”. Will these turkeys fly high or fall like a rock?
The music and artistry of Don Van Vliet, known to all and sundry as Captain Beefheart is very black and white – there are no greys here – you either…
My fellow Gatehouse Media editor Matt Phillion is at it again: ”The Indestructibles: Breakout” (PFP Publishing), his sequel to last spring’s young adult superhero saga ”The Indestructibles,” comes hot on…
Rob Smith pens a love letter to indie record stores, and the “American Hustle” soundtrack.
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What was technically recorded as Arthur Lee’s second solo album after the dissolution of Love in 1971 became viewed as the “great lost Love album”, as the album was going…
I’m starting to become convinced that you haven’t heard a pulse dissolve or a measure replicate off-time quite right until you’ve heard Loscil, which, appropriately, if true, took its name…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
This is one of those albums where I cannot even remotely pretend to be objective – The Monkees was the first album I ever owned in my life, so it…
The legendary sessions finally get a complete release
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Paul Pope is a comics rock star. From his first self-published graphic novels in the early 1990s, his singular vision and staggering technique have led industry insiders to hail him…
I don’t know how to find the right words for two albums that were almost “standard issue” when I was a teen and starting to move towards playing guitar and…
The Contours were one of the most high-energy acts ever signed to Motown
I drive my daughter Jackie to school in the morning, and because I’m a swell dad, I let her select the radio station. Occasionally she’ll throw me a bone and…
