I’ve long been fascinated by movies that, for one reason or another, were never filmed or released. What would it have been like if Stanley Kubrick actually got to film…
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Popdose is pleased to premiere the video for ”Don’t Ask Me About Hamilton (Anymore).”
Wilson discusses the new album, why it took so long, and why it’s okay to be “rock.”
A long time ago in a country that seems far, far away …
Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
What happens to the media in a ”post-fact” era? Can we discern truth from propaganda? Has Russia simply hacked American journalism, in every meaning of the word? Do we all…
The three members of Papas Fritas — Shivika Asthana, Keith Gendel, and Tony Goddess — discuss the creation of their self-titled debut album.
Beck, Brooklynn, Grace Potter and Nadia Nair are in this week’s “Single Play” spotlight.
Jason: Weren’t we talking recently about our lack of Mellowmas songs in other languages? Jeff: We totally were. You’re about to make me wish we weren’t, aren’t you? They can’t…
The former screenwriter (“Strange Brew”) and director (“Miracle Mile”) talks about his big-screen work as well as his new career as a short-story writer.
The search for a Christmas gift for Jason’s wife produces a foul hurricane of Mellowmas misery
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the Mellowmas blows
Brian and Eric cut loose with their college-aged buddy, Dennis, and Beastie Boys. Can the good times last?
If you’re yearning for espionage intrigue and Cold War thrills, you can’t go wrong with The Americans, FX’s dramatic series about KGB agents living deep undercover in the United States….
Jason: Well, Jeff, Christmas is almost here. Jeff: Thank God. Every year, I write “MELLOWMAS IS OVER” on a little piece of paper, I put it in a box, and…
For such a positive-sounding title, you probably wouldn’t expect such a negative reaction, but…
Much like Pee Wee Herman, these examples of the PR shuck ‘n jive “meant to do that.”
In the last few minutes of the commentary track for their new album Purgatory/Paradise, Throwing Muses singer/guitarist Kristin Hersh and drummer David Narcizo trade memories of the L.A. apartment building…
Last Friday, we learned of the story of Batkid, aka Miles Scott, a five-year old with leukemia who spent the day fighting crime in San Francisco, as set up by the…
If you were looking for me the last few months and couldn”™t find me, it”™s very possible that I was off somewhere, curled up inside ”Pick Me Up,” the title…
One of the most distinctive and prolific guitarists of his generation, Bill Frisell doesn’t seem to play as much as he seems to exist as an effortless gateway — whether…
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
Greetings, chronic argonauts! We’ll be stepping into the time machine in just a moment, and once we do we’re mostly going to let the music do the talking. But we…
Chris Stamey is the embodiment of the “thinking person’s musician”. His career is epic and storied: first as a member of The Sneakers with friend Mitch Easter, to playing bass…
A glimpse at the editing process for this column — stop that snickering, you at the back, this thing absolutely does get edited — as we wrap up Disc 4…
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.
Taken together Chicago’s catalog is fascinating, frustrating, brilliant and awful all at once. Read on and judge for yourself.
Michael Laine Hildebrandt discusses his song “Loving One Another.”