Gunnar and Matthew Nelson have been forced to live without your love and affection for almost 20 years. Now, Nelson returns with a new album that sounds classic. Will commercial lightning strike twice?
Michael Fortes
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If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this week’s Desert Island Discs, San Francisco’s Lia Rose makes her picks.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Popdose.com places bets on who will win the 2010 Oscar for best score.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
We bring out the blood this week as 3 Inches of Blood and Bloodbath lead the way as we continue to look at the 300 metal records on Dave Steed’s iPod.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
After a stunning debut album, Nicole Atkins lost her band, her boyfriend, and her record deal. Now she’s returned with a new label, and an impressive new album.
David Allen Jones
10 Min Read
Yes, here we go again with another thrilling chapter of Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I spend a paragraph or three inflicting my opinions on comics and…
Matt Springer
1 Min Read
A quick, close look at the new digital comics initiative from Diamond Comics Distributors.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Popdose.com’s series devoted to 50 CCM albums worth your attention rolls on!
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The Temptations’ hit “My Girl” is the very definition of a Motown standard. This week Ken Shane unearths a rare a cappella version of the soul classic.
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…
Scott Malchus and Emilia Rhodes
3 Min Read
Emilia Rhodes and Scott Malchus countdown the ten best episodes of “Friday Night Lights” before the show takes its final bow.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
More music news from Popdose, including Thomas Dolby, Greg Dulli’s Twilight Singers, and Queens of Dogtown, from the Showtime series Californication.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Popdose speaks with singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins on the arrival of her new release, Mondo Amore.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Shane MacGowan’s teeth show up this week on Bottom Feeders and surprisingly they don’t scare off Chrissie Hynde, Johnny Rotten or Iggy Pop.
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
Raise your pints to the devil as Deicide and Korpiklaani co-mingle at Popdose.
Jack Feerick
1 Min Read
Welshman of sorts, person of course, Godfather of Punk, erstwhile Velvet and renegade classicist; John Cale is full of surprises, and you won’t believe where he’s turned up over the years.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Popdose spoke with Michael Matessino regarding his work with legendary director Robert Wise on the “Director’s Edition” DVD of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Something Else! Reviews
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Amidst all the talk of rock music’s Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems, and Timeless Standards, there remain a few things that should have been left unsung. And we don’t mean unsung in the good way.
Scott Cederlund
6 Min Read
Let’s tell it like it is. Out of all the superheroes, only Superman can say he has gone up against the greatest of all time. It wasn’t Lex Luthor. It…
Annie Zaleski
1 Min Read
Britpop lovers will be intrigued to hear about the 20th-anniversary reissue of the seminal Ride album Nowhere. Annie Zaleski dips into the contents of the set.
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Taxi Driver turns 35 and Jeff Johnson looks back on a seminal work of ’70s cinema.
Matt Wardlaw
4 Min Read
Michael Gomoll was someone that I first came to know in the early ’90s when we started trading bootleg tapes of concerts. Mike was a huge Del Amitri fan and…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
What made Johnny Carson the late-night king? Scott Malchus takes a look in his review of a new box of Tonight Show episodes.
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
The Popdose Staff, along with noted film preservationist Michael Matessino, discuss the remarkable career of John Williams.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Popdose takes a quick look at the broadcast of Super Bowl XLV
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Win an iTunes download of the LCNA EP “Mercury Light.”
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
Rob Smith’s “Death by Power Ballad” focuses on the late, great Steve Clark, and Def Leppard’s “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak.”
Annie Zaleski
1 Min Read
When Material Issue front man Jim Ellison committed suicide in June of 1996, the act was sharp and sudden. The 32-year-old wasn’t a stereotypical grunge sad-sack. He was an anachronistic…
Jason Hare
9 Min Read
Richard Marx chats with Popdose about his past & present career, his favorite role in the industry these days, why he hid his smile in the ’80s and much more.