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.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
There are worse things than fumbling the lyrics of the national anthem at the Super Bowl or tabloid crackups, Xtina. There is Burlesque.
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Robin Monica Alexander and Kelly Stitzel
3 Min Read
Springfield’s lighthouse no longer shines, but memories of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in history, still burn brightly for Kelly Stitzel and Robin Monica Alexander.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
“The world don’t need any more songs.” —Bob Dylan If you follow me (or the AV Club) on Twitter, you probably read yesterday’s collaborative post between Steven Hyden and Greg…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
It may be a bit too early to call them a supergroup, but according to Ken Shane, members of Dawes, Deer Tick, and Delta Spirit have made a fine debut album.
Dave Steed
5 Min Read
Was Michael Stipe bat-shit crazy back in the ’80s too? Did REO Speedwagon have any balls at all? Debate these and other topics as we look at more rock songs from the ’80s.
Dave Steed
8 Min Read
Dave Steed reviews some great new metal records including the best thrash record released in 3 years!
Something Else! Reviews
1 Min Read
Thirty years in, no one would have been surprised if the Rolling Stones simply ground to a halt in the 1990s. Instead, they managed a small, very late career resurgence.
Annie Zaleski
1 Min Read
With a new R.E.M. album in hand, Annie Zaleski tackles the difficult task of assessing the latest offering by her favorite band.
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
Popdose.com’s continuing series The Composers turns the light toward Alan Silvestri.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
1 Min Read
In her new half-hour web series Look of the Week, Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo talks with guests about films old, new,…
Jon Cummings
7 Min Read
Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” exemplifies the shift among pop’s reigning divas — from P!nk to Katy to Ke$ha — away from self-aggrandizement and toward messages of self-help aimed directly at their audiences. Jon Cummings explores the new pop paradigm.
Robin Monica Alexander
1 Min Read
In the latest Random Play, Robin Monica Alexander explains how hip-hop group Yo Majesty is as American as apple f***in’ pie.
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Michael Fortes
1 Min Read
No, it’s not Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – but it’s close! Sean Olmstead of fpodbpod gives us a tour of his funhouse in this month’s Parlour to Parlour.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
John Waite gives us another classic piece of heartbreak poetry with “If You Ever Get Lonely,” causing Rob Smith to swoon in his latest “Death by Power Ballad” column.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
Fox’s new cop drama “The Chicago Code” is fast-paced, smart, and brings emotion to an action-based genre.
Scott Malchus
6 Min Read
Scott Malchus reflects on the original film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” in this week’s Basement Songs.
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
In the last installment of her Best Original Song special series, Kelly Stitzel takes a look at the year in which Dylan won an Oscar and BjÁ¶rk brought the fashion crazy.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
David Gray – Babylon k.d. lang – The Consequences of Falling Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise – Baby Train – I Am Tori Amos – 1000 Oceans.mp3 Jonny Lang – Breakin’…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
The Internet moves fast. Here are a few of our favorite links from the week that was: Why the afterlife is box office poison [Wired] Lauded Wainwright: Box set to…
David Allen Jones
8 Min Read
Time once more for Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some of which may be sitting…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
In between more timely projects and content, the Popdose staff are dissecting albums from 1991, which happens to be one of my favorite years of music. It was also…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
What do you do with a seriously weird music video? Make it weirder, that’s what you do!
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Radiohead dropped a new album last week. So why aren’t we even breaking a sweat over it?