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The Barbra Streisand remake of A Star is Born is on Blu-ray.
In the final week of her 1980s Best Original Song adventure, Kelly takes a look at the nominees from 1987.
Dreamy song vs. banjo song. Which side of the fence you on? Date or no date. Can you relate?
The Hellgoat finds his third perfect record of 2013, in the most unlikeliest of places – AOR!
In early 1963, Johnny Cymbal cracked the Top 20 with “Mr. Bass Man.”
It’s showtime! Oscars, Top Ten 2012, and the greatest movies ever made.
Duke was the album that changed how the world viewed Genesis. Chris Holmes and Dw. Dunphy look at this game-changing record on Platters That Matter.
Following the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division decided to embark on an entirely new project, although it would take some time for the group to find its own voice. Formed in 1980, New Order augmented the trio of Sumner (guitar, vocals), Hook (bass), and Morris with keyboardist Gillian Gilbert (Morris’ then-girlfriend and now-wife). The band went on to have a fairly prolific career, although the stream of releases slowed significantly by the mid- 1990s, partially […]
Win a concert/camping contest for Mountain Jam 2013 in Hunter, New York!
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Even a scatologically obsessed middle-aged guy from New Jersey can be an inspiration sometimes.
With the Academy Awards coming up, Jeff Johnson weighs in with his annual Oscar predictions.
A Silent Film talks about America, having fun onstage and rattlesnakes. (Not in that order.)
Wherein Holmes and Dunphy make like The Carpenters and go on hurting each other.
William Bell was one of the pioneers of the Stax sound
A new series 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…
A countdown of the Top 10 songs written or performed by Ace Frehley, both as the lead guitarist in Kiss and as a solo artist.
Early hip-hop! Leftover classic rock! Italian sex disco! Racist tomfoolery! And the luckiest bar band in the Midwest! All in our continuing crawl through Disc One of this seven-disc set!…
Chris Cagle is a modestly successful country singer who’s managed to chart a few singles since 2000. “I Breathe In, I Breathe Out” was a #1 hit in 2001. There’s…
As we at Popblerd passed around the latest list of new releases to divvy up albums for review, one particular album stood out like a sore thumb: Buckcherry, the band you’d always hoped was dead, is gearing up to release a new record. This is a moderately startling development, precisely because it’s not that startling: as we all know, rare is the past-its-prime band that has the self-awareness and decency to call it a day when they cease to be […]
