The Popdose staff says farewell to Steve Carell by counting down the best Michael Scott moments from NBC’s “The Office.”
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Seeing the right Facebook post at the right time led Ken Shane to a very special Internet radio show. His Saturday nights have never been the same.
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
Every music movement or sea change has that one person that influenced the thing in the first place, but never quite got to cash in when the people were finally…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
This week’s ’80s Dance Party is brought to you by heartbreak, passion, longing, lace and dark lipstick.
Scott Cederlund
5 Min Read
If you were to ask what makes Greg Rucka a strong writer, my answer would be that it is everything that he leaves out of his stories. It’s not that…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Kelly Stitzel remembers punk icon Poly Styrene, and shares the interview she gave Popdose before her untimely death.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed finishes out the letter S this week as he looks at songs from Sting, Rod Stewart, Styx and more rockers from the ’80s.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
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Will Harris
19 Min Read
It takes a real man to transform from a pop star into an action hero, but Luke Goss has done it. Good for him! (We still asked him about being in Bros, though.)
Something Else! Reviews
1 Min Read
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has taken his share of knocks over the years. Some of those, in the interest of full disclosure, came from us.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
A new recovered tape that had been lost for 40 years provides compelling insight into Bob Dylan’s earliest days as a songwriter and performer.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
I was recently interviewed, along with my fellow Popdose Podcast co-hosts Dave Lifton and Jason Hare, by the Brown Tweed Society — I imagine the article will run whenever they…
Will Harris
1 Min Read
Yes, he talks about the Brat Pack. Yes, he talks about who he slept with. Strangely, however, he never mentions “The Lyon’s Den” or “Dr. Vegas.”
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Michael Fortes
1 Min Read
Berkeley-based singer/songwriter/NorCal girl Ash Reiter radiates characteristically casual grace in this month’s Parlour to Parlour.
Mojo Flucke
2 Min Read
In interest of full disclosure here’s the conflict of interest statement Popdose Legal forces us to write on occasions like these: Fellow music critics use my Smithereens addiction as a…
Dw. Dunphy
5 Min Read
The record companies decided to fight the scourge of free music downloads with…twice-as-expensive discs. Let us explain.
Popdose Staff
12 Min Read
“Weird Al” Yankovic: he’s not just about Lady Gaga parodies, you know. Join Popdose as we look back at 20 of Al’s most memorable original compositions.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Garrow’s Law was an unexpected pleasure when I sat down to watch it, one that exceeded my expectations for both period dramas and lawyer shows. Set in 18th Century England,…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Neville Brothers – Voodoo Howie Day – Collide Robert Plant – Another Tribe Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine Dave Matthews – Everyday Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too…
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
Metallica, Slayer. Slayer, Metallica. Carcass? Who comes out on top as Dave Steed’s favorite metal album of all time? Find out in the final edition of False Metal, Dead!
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed takes a look at everything badass in his latest weekly music series.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
High Moon Records is having their launch party at The Roxy in LA on April 29. One lucky Popdose reader will be there, with a friend.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Arnold McCuller calls “Soon As I Get Paid” his musical autobiography. He could haven’t chosen better songs or better players to help him to tell his story.
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Put on your dancing shoes and strap on your guitar. It’s time to rock a little and dance a little at the Weeknight ’80s Dance Party.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
What happens when you combine Dixieland music with popular songs from the ’70s? You get “The Next Hundred Years” by the Ragtimers, this week’s album featured on “Way Out Wednesday.”
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
AMC’s “The Killing” is easily one the best shows of the year.
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Disgruntled by the recent FBI crackdown of online poker, Jeff Johnson brings us Six Myths About Online Poker.
Dave Steed
3 Min Read
The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert’s worth of Springsteen tunes.
Karen Maskens
2 Min Read
April 18th was an extraordinary night for soap fans: The iconic vacuum company Hoover put an announcement up on its Facebook page saying, in part, that it was going to…