The 200th edition of Soul Serenade features the Jive Five
The remarkable new album by Oslo’s Gazpacho blows away the conventions of rock, prog, and the makeup of the “epic” song.
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
Boy, this season has been great, with each episode better than the last. But you know that, otherwise you wouldn’t be back here, checking out the latest episode of Comrades. …
The last time I breathed the same air as Chris Ballew, lead singer and basitar player for The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA from here on out),…
They probably made out to “You and Me” a year after they grounded you for blasting “Elected!”
Modern pop music tends to be so personality-driven that getting an email from a band like Tower is as refreshing as it is bewildering. Who are they? “A new band…
Visit the Americans at their official site, and hear more music — including their latest release, Home Recordings — here. There’s an old story I remember, maybe in a book…
Rock River, the new solo album from Deena Shoshkes of New Jersey’s The Cucumbers, is a breath of fresh pop air that I welcome. For someone who’s put out great…
The lyrics scan like a battle cry — so why does Aerosmith’s “Dream On” sound like defeat?
Singer/songwriter Richard Shindell appeared recently in Massachusetts
This album, of which a performance called “Look Behind You” is based around, is a highly personal memoir by Irish singer/songwriter Steafán Hanvey. Released in 2013, Nuclear Family is about…
In the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 boxset you’ll find a teensploitation flick, a sword and sandal classic, a loose head on the loose movie, and one of the most requested MST3K episodes. Read all about it here!
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Joggers are the real terrorists, right? Tell us…
Based on the French-Canadian hit, Starbuck, writer/director Ken Scott’s Delivery Man is a heartwarming film that packs more drama than comedy it in its brisk 105 minutes. Vince Vaughn reminds…
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….
If Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Tom Waits, it might grow up to sound like Luke Elliot‘s “Virginia”:…
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Are you tired of the song? Tell us…
Holly George Warren did an exemplary job of writing about Alex Chilton, the frontman of ’60’s hitmakers The Box Tops, the ramshackle director of his solo career and of course,…
This turned out a lot better than I expected. I’ve always had a weird sort of crush on Joan Didion – or at least the twentysomething ingenue she comes across…
It began in a barbershop and became the Parliament-Funkadelic juggernaut
My very first KI2Y column on PopDose was this clever bit about how rights of publicity might attach to dead celebrities. Do rights to famous folk’s images survive their tragic demise, or…
I keep getting lucky in hearing melodic, thoughtful and American music, which has been my taste for a while. Yet again, a warm new voice is heard in Noah Gundersen,…
Better late than never, that’s what we always say here at the Comrades podcast. Okay, maybe just Malchus says that; Jeff is a little more punctual. If Scott would just…
This June, a group of four excellent singer-songwriters will launch a small tour of the East Coast under the name ”The Parlor Sessions” (dates below). To promote the tour, they’ve…
The music on this album is fantastic. Great sounding; great arrangements, so many delicious nuances in each track – a gloriously lush album. Good, strong lyrics abound – these are…
A teenage, “hard rock” band – well, yes. This Southern California quartet delivers a strong 5-song mini-album with some nicely heavy numbers and good production. There’s a very ’70’s feel…
The final installment of Bottom Feeders is here with Weird Al, Trisha Yearwood and of course a little ZZ Top to end it.
