Bob Cashill asks if it’s possible to feel bad about a movie that earns an Academy Award nomination. Yes, says sorrowful Way Back star Ed Harris.
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith travels back in time to Graham Parker’s 1991 album Struck by Lightning, in today’s Popdose Flashback.
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus falls in love with Los Angeles and Steve Martin’s “L.A. Story”
Molly Marinik
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Molly Marinik reviews Roundabout’s production of Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. There’s a reason you’ve probably never seen this play.
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel brings back her special series taking a look at past Best Original Song Oscar nominees. This week, she discusses the nominees from the 46th Academy Awards.
Emilia Rhodes
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Big decisions are made and relationships are torn apart in the penultimate episode of Friday Night Lights, season five, episode 12.
Mike Heyliger
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Who’s Cosmo Jarvis? Well, he’s got a song out now called “Gay Pirates”, and he was kind enough to submit a list of his favorite songs and films to us for Desert Island Discs.
Dave Steed
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Metallica, Megadeth, Motley Crue, Tool? That could only mean we’ve reached the Top 100 headbanging albums according to our metal guru, Dave Steed.
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus takes a look at three new comic related DVD’s.
Zack Dennis
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Thanks for checking in one last time this season! Let’s see what Gamblor has to say about the Superbowl… Gamblor’s Superbowl Prediction And what about Son of Gamblor? Son of…
David Allen Jones
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Time once more for another Confessions, in which I write a line or six or seven about newish releases of the comics and graphic novel type, hopefully still on sale…
Matt Wardlaw
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We’re pleased to welcome The O’s for today’s edition of Desert Island Discs. A couple of years ago, their debut album prompted Alternative Press to name them as one of…
Ken Shane
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Eddie Holland had moderate success as a recording artist, but his greatest contribution came as a member of one of the leading songwriting teams in history.
Popdose Staff
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With the release of the James Cameron-produced Sanctum looming, Popdose takes a look at other waterlogged big-screen terrors.
Tony Redman
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It takes many elements to make a record. If one or two of those elements go wrong, it can turn a well produced album into an interesting train wreck. That…
Chris Holmes
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Chris Holmes delves into Blind Melon’s 1992 debut album to see if there are any other nuggets past the hit single, “No Rain.”
Jeff Giles
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Like many of you, I’ve always been a sucker for books about rock music, either about the music itself (e.g. Paul Zollo’s Songwriters on Songwriting and Jimmy Guterman and Owen…
Pete Chianca
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Given that as I write this, the forecast for the week is a steady snow starting on Tuesday and tapering off sometime in 2013, I have decided to spend the…
Dave Steed
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We may have record amounts of snow and ice across the US but we still turn the heat up with more rock from Robert Plant, Pink Floyd and the Pixies.
Brian Boone
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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…
Ted Asregadoo
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Orgasmic over an iron? Well, Ted Asregadoo at Popdose is certainly elated by his new purchase. You probably will be too (if you buy one).
Mark Feldman
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Part 12: Flaming Pie (1997) This is where we officially get into the Beatles’ modern era. By this point, the Fabs are a band which fully admits to being less…
Jack Feerick
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Courtesy. Professionalism. Humility. Generosity. All the qualities that a gifted musician brings to process of collaboration. And yet somehow, Lou Reed continues to make guest appearance on other people’s records. Go figure.
Jeff Giles
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Since the advent of recorded music, there’s been a more or less constant tension between the audiophile segment of the marketplace and the great unwashed hordes of transistor-toting plebes who…
Something Else! Reviews
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The 1970s weren’t all shag carpeting and plaid pants. OK, they were. But not all of it sucked. Really.
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel takes a look at Susanna Hoffs’s solo debut, which just celebrated its 20th birthday.
Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose pays tribute to composer John Barry, who passed away at the end of January.
Zack Dennis
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Well, it ended up being a profitable season. And over the three years it has been active, Gamblor has now crossed into positive territory. Of course, as anyone who has…
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Michael Fortes
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In the first Parlour to Parlour episode of the year, Michael Fortes pays a visit to The Blank Tapes’ Matt Adams.