Metal! Priest, Entombed and Nine Inch Nails meet up with the blackened stylings of Carpathian Forest in the 25th week of False Metal, Dead!
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
Wednesday’s anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) shenanigans in Wisconsin were just part of a GOP effort to destroy the Democrats’ power base nationwide. Can they succeed? Jon Cummings says, definitely maybe.
Chris Holmes
1 Min Read
Chris Holmes steps into the Cassingle Vault to look at an offering from prog metal stalwarts QueensrÁ¿che — 1988’s “I Don’t Believe In Love.”
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Popdose goes back to 1991 with the debut album from Australia’s Baby Animals.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The Chi-Lites got together in the late ’50s, but they didn’t have their first huge hit until they released the unforgettable “Have You Seen Her” in 1971.
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
This column usually presents semi-obscure or forgotten songs that should have been hits. ”Walking on Thin Ice” is different, because if you’re the kind of person with an obsessive enough…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a … it’s … a man-rat? (And we’re not talking about the mug of Keith Richards, either.)
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
Who’s that girl? Why it’s Jane Eyre, back again, as a new documentary revisits The Boys in the Band and some Monsters cause trouble on home screens.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
It’s an extreme metal week as Dave Steed reviews the blistering new albums from Trap Them and Rotten Sound.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
ABC Family’s “Greek” drives off into the sunset with its series finale.
Chris Holmes
2 Min Read
Chris Holmes reviews some of the most notable musical guest appearances by legendary Queen guitarist Brian May.
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this week’s Desert Island Discs, Ari Hest makes his picks.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
In spite of what the financial pundits say, Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy says double-dip recession is not only possible, but inevitable.
Something Else! Reviews
1 Min Read
All hail Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours, this 1977 paean to Love, American-style — or California-style, anyway. Memorably cinematic, it chronicled with a lush directness (quite literally, it turned out) the way…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Scott Malchus explores the paranoid delusions of “The Manchurian Candidate” in the latest Basement Songs.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
Shout! Factory presents four more episodes of the classic show “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” featuring moon flights, a Russian Sinbad and two Master Ninjas!
Matt Wardlaw
5 Min Read
As MTV marks its 30th anniversary, Matt Wardlaw spoke about the golden years of the channel with author Greg Prato, who has a new book on the subject.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Barenaked Ladies – Pinch MeBen Harper – Steal My Kisses Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Again and Again Buddy Guy – Feels Like Rain Coldplay – Yellow Cranberries…
Annie Zaleski
3 Min Read
It’s not often that a band releases two solid albums in the same week — twenty years apart. But such a gesture is just all in a day’s work for…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The great American songwriter Lucinda Williams has returned with her 10th studio album. Ken Shane thinks it’s one of the best of her storied career.
David Allen Jones
9 Min Read
Time once more for CoaCSJ, in which I opine upon a handful of recent comics and graphic novel releases, most of which should be just a comics shop visit or…
David Medsker
4 Min Read
The patron saints of Popdose are an unconventional bunch, to be sure. The big joke among the staff at the annual board meeting, held in Matt Wardlaw’s palatial estate, is…
Robin Monica Alexander and Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Like Reva Shayne coming back from the dead, Kelly Stitzel and Robin Monica Alexander aren’t quite done with their tribute to the once-great, now-canceled soap.
Chris Holmes
1 Min Read
This week’s Popdose mixtape, presented by Chris Holmes, offers up 20 of the greatest jazz songs ever recorded.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
I’ve had Live at Shea Stadium for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve spent them alternating between watching 30-minute chunks of the film and struggling with what to say…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
We’ve reached the Top 70 metal albums on Dave Steed’s iPod and it includes Europe?
Chris Holmes
3 Min Read
Chris Holmes examines a buried treasure from the golden age of soft rock – Bertie Higgins’ 1982 solo debut Just Another Day in Paradise.
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…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
In 1973 the legendary Bay Area funk band broke out with their third album, which included some of their best-known songs. Ken Shane recalls their biggest hit.