Can you make two pop records devoted to the sport of cricket?
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It’s high summer, and we’re in the midst of wedding season. And if you’re going to a wedding this summer, then there’s a chance you’re going to find yourself doing…
Since maybe late February (when it leaked online), my favorite record of the year has been the Flaming Lips’ The Terror. The record’s unyielding tone of desperation and desolation appeals…
The Popdose Staff uses the event of being an extra to extol the virtues of John Candy.
One of the great songs of the ’80s has a classic pedigree
Bob Dylan has long been a dusty bitch, and, indeed, it’s one of his more enduring qualities. So it’s not out of character that Dylan will be releasing a new…
Most unfortunate pop culture trends from the ’90s are dead and gone, but here are nine that live on like annoying zombies.
As we wrap up Disc Six and head for the final reckoning, we’ll just quote an email comment from our own David Medsker, when he got a look at this…
Amethyst zooms in and out with might and musical muscle, sporting an all-killer-no-filler approach that improves upon the band’s idiosyncratic 14-track debut.
A lot can happen from the time a script is turned in to a studio to the time the film actually goes into production. Actors are cast and then recast,…
For trumpeter Etienne Charles, whose dynamic, genre-bending new album Creole Soul arrives today, this project wasn’t about innovation. That’s too exterior. “It’s the music of who I am,” Charles tells…
The Boy With Astronaut Eyes finds The Purrs in a particularly joyful state of mind, and sounding perhaps the most invigorated and pumped up they’ve ever been.
Platters That Matter podcasters brave the summer heat for Ben Folds Five live.
Rivers is a delicately beautiful perspective of this master musician’s artistry, and may even widen the acceptance of avant garde jazz, given the chance.
At a time when albums are teased, hyped, leaked, dissected, discarded and re-evaluated before they are even officially released, it has become increasingly rare to be able to approach one…
Two of the best artists of all time show up – PM Dawn and Prince.
This summer, I’ve been so into the new Charli XCX album, True Romance, that I’ve all but given up listening to anything else. It’s the perfect forward-thinking retro 80’s goth…
Willie Nelson and his outlaw buddies are keeping country music’s heritage alive on SiriusXM
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Tune in, turn on, shuffle out. Time for this week’s Friday Five!
Lousy with comically ambiguous situations, Computer Chess watches a convention of software geniuses compete to prove their programs are capable of besting a human at chess. Writer/director Andrew Bujalski loves…
In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
