At the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival this weekend, Busta Rhymes brought out some surprise guests-Charlie Brown and Dinco D. The three initially gained fame in the early Nineties as Leaders Of The New School. LoNS split up after two albums, as Busta̵…
We continue with the letter F and get Filter, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac and more.
Welcome to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. It runs every Monday and Friday. Each edition of SMD features Sort-Of Soundtrack, an optional metal song that plays in a new window. Click…
For the past 22 years over the 4th of July, 10,000 music loving souls have descended on the little community of Quincy, California transforming the Plumas County Fairgrounds into a…
You sure that’s not Cameo? Nope, it’s Con Funk Shun, and their 1986 song “She’s A Star” graces this edition of Jheri Curl Fridays.
Let the Sandman sing you away this date night. No date? No prob. We got the Brand New Heavies on deck to heal you.
Delta Rae is a sextet from North Carolina, consisting of three siblings and three additional friends. They’re the only band I’ve seen use chains and a garbage can, aside from…
Casey Abrams was cast as the ”Too Weird for American Idol” contestant of Season 10. He was quirky, confident and fully defined as an artist before he arrived at the…
From Motown to Scotland in five songs, what is on your Friday Five?
Welcome to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. It runs every Monday and Friday. Each edition of SMD features Sort-Of Soundtrack, an optional metal song that plays in a new window. Click to…
In 1967, the album supplanted the single as rock’s preeminent art form. Yet the album that ended 1967 at #1 in Billboard sits astride both sides of that divide. Pisces,…
Lee Feldman subtitled his fourth album Trying to Put the Things Together That Never Been Together Before, which might read like a Fiona Apple-esque prank if it didn’t fit so…
Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe each have new movies out on home video.
In 1965 the Righteous Brothers had a year that has seldom been equaled in the annals of popular music.
Hannah Georgas, where have you been all my life? I’m going to have your deliciously atmospheric “Enemies” on repeat for much of the summer, I just know it. [youtube id=”RFQ2advYqJ0″…
As habitual readers of this space are already aware, I’m celebrating Woody Guthrie’s centennial by helping put together a tribute album dedicated to raising funds for the Woody Guthrie Foundation,…
Out here where I live, a May morning is cause for celebration — the snow is behind us, most of winter’s ice has melted, and we’re out breathing the warm…
They look like they have a combined age of maybe 48 — and they actually might, as their press release says they’re all under 20 — but the Blackwell brothers,…
Many moons ago (by which we mean until the mid-90s), there existed mystical Shangri-La’s in shopping malls all across Americas, where quarters flowed, laughter resounded, and countless beefs were settled by joysticks and four buttons. Where …
