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…
The comedian is waging a silent defense of rape allegations, and the nation faces a crisis of conscience.
God bless Gabe Serbian. While some members of San Diego grind-core legends The Locust are taking an indefinite break while the populace waits for Plague Soundscapes 2, Serbian moved to…
You should not have to wait a quarter century for one of the best albums of the year.
That much of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles efforts have been unavailable for so long remains something of a mystery to me. His output with Wings and his solo albums during the…
The single guitar note, all fragile and frosted glass, falls on the foot of the kick drum. And then, as the notes continue to unfurl and the metronomic drum spurs…
One of the more interesting (to fascinating) musicians/writers to come out of the post-punk era is unquestionably Nick Cave. As the lead singer of The Boys Next Door and The…
Aigner presents a sophisticated side of folk that traps you with her voice, but keeps you with her wordplay.
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Scott Malchus highlights three recent indie film DVD releases you may have missed.
Nearly a decade removed from Ryan Adams’s most prolific year, when he released three full-lengths over seven months (while leaving countless other recordings in the vaults), it can often seem a…
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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…
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LA’s Guardian Ghost blazes across the night sky casting off a comet tail of influences ranging from Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, Hooray For Earth, Editors and the Chameleons; shimmering…
Singer-songwriter Will Oldham, that old Palace ring-leader turned ”Prince,” just has released a new collection of emotive acoustics titled Singer’s Grave A Sea of Tongues — and, hands down, it…
The Chiffons scored big with a “fine” series in ’63
