The members of the Popdose staff have been counting down their favorite records. Now find out which ones we’ve collectively crowned the Top 20 of 2010.
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Are you tired of all the year end lists yet? Well, here at Popdose, we love our lists — and it seems our readers do,…
Dw. Dunphy
24 Min Read
Well, this is getting to be a pretty lousy habit, now isn’t it? Coming into the middle part of December, I had severe computer and Internet connectivity problems, my car’s…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Inception (Warner Bros., 2010) For all the high-tech gewgaws that help modern Hollywood filmmakers get their visions to the screen, we’re living in a depressingly undemanding time for cinema —…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Town (Warner Bros., 2010) Less than a decade after he went from marquee idol to laughingstock, Ben Affleck regained his mojo by reinventing himself as a director with Gone…
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
Hey, East Coast, are you feeling a little European today? It’s the last great Blizzard of 2010, folks. I have just finished digging out our driveway (thanks to the neighbors…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
We’ve come to expect reissue brilliance from Rhino Handmade. Their new Percy Sledge release is no exception. One lucky reader has a chance to win a copy.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
By the cold light of Mellowmas morn, Fred Schneider returns to make us all sick. So very, very sick.
Robin Monica Alexander
1 Min Read
Robin Monica Alexander drinks Stoli and devotes the last Random Play of 2010 to her favorite variety of booze.
Popdose Staff
4 Min Read
The Popdose Staff thought that the best way to celebrate the second to last day of Mellowmas was to set the DeLorean back to the glam year of 1980, virtually…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Merry Christmas, Popdose Nation. God knows you’ve earned this. AC/DC – Mistress For Christmas Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas (12 inch mix) The Bird and the Bee…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
It’s Christmas Eve, so I’m going to keep this one short. Let’s face it, if you’re reading this, you should be with your family right now. But maybe you’re like Mayor…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Just in time for Mellowmas Eve, Wing has given us the world’s first song about Santa and a helicopter. Wait, what?
Mike Duquette
1 Min Read
Every holiday season, dozens of writers attempt to trivialize the holiday season through popular culture. Chestnuts like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story are…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Cyrus (20th Century Fox, 2010) Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly co-starring in a film — it’s gotta be a raunchy, Apatow-style comedy, right? You’d think so, but as Cyrus…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
No Hollywood studio fetishizes its past as enthusiastically as Disney, so it’s ironic that — as the thoroughly engrossing documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty makes tragically clear — the executives at…
Zack Dennis
10 Min Read
I’m a nervous gambler. Even in games that I’m winning comfortably, I compulsively dream up scenarios where through some absurd confluence of circumstances, I end up getting completely screwed and…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
The Internet moves fast. Here’s a fond look back at our favorite links from the last seven days: AM, Then FM wraps up its “12 Days of Christmas” with a…
Dw. Dunphy
4 Min Read
I have a soft spot for some of the near-misses from the 1980’s, typically big-concept genre movies that were either too earnest, too cheap, too goofy or too Too for…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
¡Hola, amigos y amigas! Charo ees here to help all you fine mamacitas find Thanta Claw!
Mike Duquette
1 Min Read
Even in a year where a lot of great new music was released, it’s still been a blast to revisit artists and albums of old through those wonderful reissues, box…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Turn around, bright eyes — Bonnie Tyler is here with a Mellowmas tune that has Jason scratching his head and Jeff holding out for a burst eardrum.
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
What would Christmas time be without the king, Michael McDonald. Bottom Feeders continues with the letter M and wishes you a McDonald filled Christmas.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
Still time to stuff stockings with an assortment of new tomes on movies, theatre, and TV, bookended by a poster collection that drips blood and a rundown of renowned Broadway hits–and flops.
Scott Malchus
5 Min Read
With “Lost” leaving the airwaves, it seems that if you want to watch something other than a procedural, you’ll have to tune to AMC, FX or HBO. That’s not to say that there aren’t some great cop, lawyer or medical shows (“The Good Wife” immediately jumps to mind), but the TV landscape is wide open enough that stories about all walks of life should be able to survive.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
From gangsters to vampires, and cable dramas to network comedies, a list of the best in television in 2010.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
In which two of Toto’s many former lead singers wish you a very merry Mellowmas — or a maudlin, senselessly overblown one, whichever comes first.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Armed with a drum loop and enough Viagra to kill a horse, the O’Jays have returned to sex you up for Mellowmas.
Matt Wardlaw
2 Min Read
Hi, guys. I’m happy to let you know that I have a long-overdue update from the beloved (in only one small part of the zip code) Mayor Cass. Now, I…
Emilia Rhodes
3 Min Read
Jason Street is back and the Lions face off with the Panthers in Season Five, Episode Seven of “Friday Night Lights.”