Guillermo del Toro’s long awaited sci/fi epic, Pacific Rim, is soon upon us, and to prepare, we should take a look at the inspirations beneath it that run decades deep. …
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Popdose Staff
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Presenting the best of records you didn’t know had any “best ofs” on them.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose reviews the long-awaited return of Boards of Canada, last heard from in 2006.
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Rob Ross
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I loved these two albums when they first came out in 1984 and 1986, respectively, through the good folks at A&M Records. This Atlanta band had that wonderful mix of…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Eagle Vision’s 4-DVD video retrospective of Jethro Tull live is a gift to longtime fans.
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Dave Steed
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This week, Pearl Jam contribute to the most confusing timeline of songs on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Dw. Dunphy
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A conversation with DA’s lead architect Terry Scott Taylor about the band’s new album, Dig Here, Said The Angel (and an album review to boot!)
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Glass Houses rocks like hell, right? Tell us in…
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The Six-Tongued Hellgoat
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Ze French Canadians scare the crap out of you while Humiliation brings back the glory days of Bolt Thrower.
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Robert Cass, Jeff Giles, and Mike Heyliger
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Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Dan Walsh
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Playing a large festival is both a blessing and a curse, especially for up and coming bands. The blessing – The band is playing to a larger audience than you’d…
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Dw. Dunphy
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1993 was ground zero for the nu-metal movement. We just didn’t know yet.
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Ken Shane
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The Ikettes had a major hit of their own in ’62
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Brian Boone
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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…
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Matt Springer
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George Lucas has been written off as an emotionless technophile who built a billion-dollar empire on the backs of Ewoks and clones. To be fair, he probably is exactly that….
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Michael Fortes
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Psychedelic hero Mark Matos explains the concept of the Family Folk Explosion and details his upcoming boxed set in part two of his Parlour to Parlour interview.
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Rob Ross
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The Teardrop Explodes were as important to me as The Jam. Equally painful was their split at the same time as The Jam. Except The Teardrop never received the respect,…
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We’re on to Disc Six of this seven-disc set this week, and man oh man do these silly pop songs elicit some strong opinions. Put your helmets on, kids, cos…
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Brian Boone
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A new big-screen version of The Lone Ranger comes out this weekend, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow as Tonto. It looks less like a faithful adaptation of the…
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Rob Ross
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I’ve written about this movie previously, but now, with the film making its national premiere in theaters, on InDemand and iTunes on July 3rd, I had the opportunity to ask…
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Michael Fortes
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Psych/folk/rock torch-bearer Mark Matos connects his music to a unique vision of “the New Weird West” in the first of a two-part Parlour to Parlour interview.
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Bob Cashill
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At the theatre, at the movies, and on CD and Blu-ray, too.
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Elizabeth Barker
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Lightning Dust is the side project of Black Mountain’s Amber Webber and Joshua Wells, an outlet for the Vancouver duo’s softer, sweeter, less stoner-rock-y tendencies. On their third album Fantasy,…
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Jack Feerick
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I’ve been catching up on the Entertainment Geekly podcast this week (which is my own damned problem, I suppose), and I was struck by an odd conversational turn during a…
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Rob Ross
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This Seattle-based 3 piece pleases with this fine effort. Great sounding; has a very early-to-mid ’70’s feel which is fine with me. “Amy” is a quality starter; good, soulful and…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Disguised as an epic sci-fi tale of humanity’s fall and rise, Things To Come has a darker, unsettling agenda.