Do you remember rock ‘n roll? On Foo Fighters’ latest, Wasting Light, the answer is yes.
Molly Marinik
3 Min Read
Molly Marinik reviews the new play BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, now on Broadway starring Robin Williams. It’s a dark comedy with philosophical objectives that leaves you with much to contemplate. And Williams plays a snarky tiger.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
No fooling — Insidious, from the makers of Saw, gets things bumping in the night. Plus, Hilary Swank is The Resident, and the phantasmagorical Santa Sangre, both on DVD.
Jack Feerick
1 Min Read
I spent most of the 1990s training myself to be a self-conscious aesthete. Which makes me sound, I suppose, like some horrible, sneering, holier-than-thou funwrecker. Really, though, it was just…
Robert Cass
5 Min Read
The incarcerated mayor of Bootleg City was deeply disappointed to hear that HarperCollins has canceled the publication of Billy Joel’s memoir, The Book of Joel, but a 1976 bootleg of the Piano Man in New York City has helped ease his pain.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
Now on DVD, the fourth season of AMC’s Emmy winning drama may have been a downward spiral for Don Draper, but the series was a strong as ever.
Zack Dennis
2 Min Read
The best – and by “best” I mean “most convincing” – prank I ever pulled on April Fool’s Day was convincing my girlfriend (long since an ex-girlfriend) that someone had…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
We’re up to the top 40 metal albums of all time according to our resident metal guru, Dave Steed. Headbang into your weekend with some fierce riffs.
Popdose Staff
11 Min Read
A mystery landed on the Popdose doorstep: the treatment for Jennifer Aniston’s upcoming “Fooling April” — The horror, the horror.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
The powerhouse combination of Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and director Doug Liman make “Fair Game”one of the best films of last year, and also one of the most overlooked.
Dw. Dunphy
4 Min Read
Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy fears becoming one of those old men that only like the music they like and nothing else.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
In 1982, Teddy Pendergrass was on top of the music world when he performed in London. A few weeks later, a tragic car accident changed everything.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
Is Disney’s take on Rapunzel a bad hair day for the studio? Bob Cashill takes his scissors to it.
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
Michael Jackson died in June 2009, and with that, the Michael Jackson Memorial Celebration began, an outpouring of grief not matched in magnitude or lengthiness since Lincoln’s corpse toured the…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
For almost 15 years now, Lee Feldman has been one of the best-kept secrets in playfully literate pop music — a smartly played piano and a heartbreakingly pure voice in…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Even the best film composers have had their share of rejected scores. This week’s Revival House examines seven great ones.
Will Harris
1 Min Read
There’s always been more to Toploader than “Dancing in the Moonlight.” Frontman Joe Washbourn talks to Popdose about how the band is back together and better than ever.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed keeps on truckin’ with more rock tunes from artists beginning with the letter S.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Spring is here — on the calendar, anyway, although the winter temperatures are hanging on stubbornly for some of us — and as thoughts turn to halter tops, baseball games,…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed reviews the latest releases from Urfaust and Echtra.
Something Else! Reviews
1 Min Read
The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so … anonymous.
Matt Wardlaw
2 Min Read
New albums from a classic band or artist can sometimes be a dodgy proposition. But when I saw the news last year that The Doobie Brothers had a new album…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
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 isn’t…
Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
Scott Malchus doesn’t mind being stuck in “The Middle” in the latest Three Strike Rule.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
1 Min Read
Sara describes the pragmatic overtones of this episode as “more denim than taffeta,” which is only natural as the Letter to an Unknown Director recipient is tough guy Nicholas Ray.
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Michael Fortes
1 Min Read
The Parlour to Parlour journey takes an unexpected turn as Michael Fortes spotlights Bryant Denison’s gypsy voodoo folk rock collective The Beehavers.
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
We have the chance for you to win a copy of this mighty fine reissue of Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel. For your chance to grab the…
Michael Parr and Matt Wardlaw
4 Min Read
Call it teamwork or synchronized stalking: Michael Parr and Matt Wardlaw grill Alex Dezen of The Damnwells about the band’s new album No One Listens To The Band Anymore.