Thoughts On A Hostage Crisis: Think a US default won’t affect you directly and immediately? Think again.
Dave Steed reflects back on the New Jack Swing era as Color Me Badd’s debut album turns 20 years old this week.
“Music for the People” turns 20 this week and to celebrate, Dave Steed tracked down Funky Bunch member Hector the Booty Inspector and asked him to reminisce.
Don’t you just wish you could just enjoy your favorite bands without a singer getting in the way for once? Your wish is this week’s Popdose mixtape’s command.
Dave Steed reveals himself to the masses and checks out the Hell on Earth tour while he’s at it.
To celebrate TMBG’s new album, out this week, Mark Feldman looks back at the duo’s long, eclectic career.
This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.
Here’s the back story: I had just graduated from college in the summer of 1991, I was in Connecticut. Girlfriend was in Ohio. I packed up everything I had and boarded a train to move to Ohio to be with her. But she was under tremendous pressure from her parents to break it off, and by the time I arrived, their smear campaign was clearly working. I rarely saw her, even though we worked in the same mall. I got a job at a record store, and one of the promo CDs that had just arrived was Squeeze’s new album Play. I had always liked the band but never bought any of their records. However, the local modern rock station (97X, holler) was giving it some support, so after hearing a couple songs I liked, I took it home with me and played it in the car of my friend Ed, who’s the only person I know who likes Squeeze more than I do. I vented all of my frustrations to him about the ridiculous predicament I put myself in as we blasted “House of Love,” because damn it, I was living that song. She was full of lies and boredom, a very acidic tongue waggled in her head, we seemed the best of friends, life had just begun…but on the roof a tile began to slip. The house of love caved in, and that was it. Fuck.
Ken Shane celebrates the life and music of songwriter/producer Jerry Ragovoy who died this week at age 80.
Grunge rock came out of the punk tradition, sidestepping the decade and a half of corporate rock that came in between punk’s prime of 1977 and grunge’s rise in 1991….
Scott Malchus returns to Bon Temps for the third season of “True Blood”
Popdose soldiers on with our Digging for Gold series and looks at another six tracks from Time-Life Music’s AM Gold: 1962.
Supertramp was many things over its too-brief period of hitmaking — wanna-be proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers, memory-defining radio monoliths. Sure, Roger Hodgson’s voice could occasionally become a sing-songy distraction….
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it…
For more than 75 years, Kirkus Reviews has served as the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and ordinary readers alike. Now Popdose has joined the Kirkus Book Bloggers Network….
In this week’s “Death by Power Ballad,” Rob Smith has a midlife nervous breakdown, in response to Richard Marx’s “Hold on to the Nights.”
Aliens was released 25 years ago and this week’s Revival House takes a look back.
Funk/rock legend Sly Stone made his only appearance in a music video back in 1986, when he appeared in Jesse Johnson’s “Crazay” clip.
So wizard rock is apparently a real thing, which is nice; I’m sure that the Moms of the various members of, say, Draco and the Malfoys are all very proud…
How many ways can you spell perfection? Try three ways, as Dave Steed reviews a monstrous bunch of new metal and rock records this week.
Scott Malchus examines the 2011 Emmy nominations in the latest edition of The Three Strike Rule
In which our own Ken Shane and Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal debate the merits of Phil Spector’s work in light of his murder conviction.
I must admit a few things before I begin: First, this is the only book review I have ever written. I’ve written reviews of concerts and albums, but it’s been…
The Dean Martin Variety Show offered a little something for everyone. There was music (well, duh) and plenty of laughs, but there was also a lot of style. Everyone on stage who joined Dean carried with them a sense of class. Most important, everyone on the show seemed to be having a great time, often at the expense of Dean.
MTV started airing 20-year-old reruns of The Monkees in 1986, a perfect fit for the fledgling network—quick cuts, youth culture, wild and crazy attitude—such were the things MTV aimed to…
The Weeknight ’80s Dance Party is back with a mix that will be the soundtrack of your next ’80s Breakdance Party.
Unless you’re an animator or a hardcore animation fan, the name “Don Hahn” may not mean much to you — but chances are, he’s had something to do with some…
The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962’s hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney.
Come my little children, and let’s hear a tale of…um, The Moody Blues on this week’s Mix Six!
Molly Marinik recommends the off Broadway event “Sleep No More,” but check out her words of wisdom before trekking to the McKittrick Hotel.
In a way, the Who has no one to blame for a slow and steady slide into overlooked rock-god status.