Looking back on a quarter century with R.E.M.’s breakthrough record
Perfect for fans as well as the uninitiated, the new Big Star documentary is a long-overdue testament to the band’s greatness
Surachai returns to expand the boundaries of what you think Black Metal is.
Join Kelly Stitzel as she takes you on the magical journey that is the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
A founding member of Little Feat stops by the Radio Hour to discuss his distinguished career and new solo tour
Summer movies usually demand a great suspension of disbelief. They’re heavy on special effects and deal with outlandish situations, whether superheroes and sci-fi or wacky gross-out extreme comedy. There is,…
For Chicago, to borrow from the Beatles and call it a “long and winding road” doesn’t even begin to detail the complicated history of the self-described “rock and roll band…
Naughty By Nature show what the golden age of hip hop was all about, while Nas takes us into the future of the genre.
Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. When people tell stories, are they usually lying? Tell us in the…
Mel Brooks: Make A Noise — Don’t be schtupidt, be a schmarty!
Kurt Brecht returns full force with his new group, Pasadena Napalm Division
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
What does one of Ben E. King’s greatest songs with the Drifters have to do with the ’60s Counterculture movement? Let’s find out and live for today.
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the new kindie record from Milkshake.
The Gaslight Anthem and a 1200 of their dedicated fans came to the Ventura Theater for a two-hour show of righteous music from the Jersey band.
Ronnie Spector is more than her powerhouse voice, more than her tumultuous marriage to one of the most notorious producers-turned-accused-murderers of all time, and even more than the mile-high hairdos…
Last week saw the anniversary of one of the most horrific events in American history, the shootings of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen on the campus of Ohio’s…
New albums from Tormented, Sidious and Ape Machine
The long, strange trip from WWII to Samuel L.
“Stop, Look, Listen” began a chart roll for the team of the Stylistics and producer Thom Bell
In the rock milieu, drummers are hardly ever famous in their own right; unless you happen to sing while you’re swinging the sticks, like Phil Collins or Don Henley (or,…
Let’s count down the 10 best pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac songs, shall we?
Here’s where we start digging into Disc 4 of the seven-disc box set Like, Omigod! The ’80s Pop Culture Box (Totally). Let’s waste no time — grab your shovels and…
This week on “Single Play,” music from The Basement Tapes, Canopy Climbers, Big September, and Paper Route.
I haven’t seen The Great Gatsby yet, but I can tell already that it just doesn’t add up. The production seems to have missed the point—it’s not about the glitz…
UK electro pop songstress releases second album, makes certain Popdosers tingly.
Postmodern literary theory trends toward the idea of subjugating original authorial intent for one crafted by the audience. In plain English, the meaning of a work is not what the…
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
