In today’s post, Jeff and Jason uncover long-suppressed memories of cold British seascapes and synthy dread.
Ted Asregadoo
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Oh my effing giddy aunt! The zombies are coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. But you can get prepared now with this week’s Mix Six.
Dw. Dunphy
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2010 was a difficult year for music, despite there being so much of it to choose from. Some high profile albums made no mark on me, while some that crept…
Rob Smith
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It breaks Rob Smith’s achy breaky heart that he Can’t Say No to Billy Ray Cyrus’ Hallmark holiday movie, “Christmas in Canaan.”
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Just in time for Mariah Carey’s new Christmas special, here’s a peek inside her latest holiday music cash-in.
Emilia Rhodes
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Vince and Julie face tough choices and consequences in season five, episode six of “Friday Night Lights.”
Dw. Dunphy
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It was a tough day, the day I finally realized I’d never make a living as a musician. I think it was my 40th birthday when it happened. I woke…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Amy Keys looks like a nice enough person…but beneath that friendly smile lurks a heart of pure, sax-wielding evil.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Would you believe that a self-referencing Wang Chung giveaway could end up being one of the year’s best Mellowmas songs? Neither could Jeff and Jason.
Kelly Stitzel
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‘Tis the season for bickering and burglary. Kelly Stitzel brings you the soundtrack to one of the funniest holiday movies of the past 20 years, Ted Demme’s The Ref.
Zack Dennis
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What can I say? The computer went 10-3 on its bets last weekend, including a staggering 10-1 on Sunday. Unfortunately, the one bet it missed on Sunday was more than…
Popdose Staff
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In the ever-evolving column we call Friday Night Videos!, there’s always room for expansion. This week, with Thanksgiving vittles solidly out of our systems (and it took a whole two…
David Allen Jones
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Hello and welcome back to Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I write a line or three about comics and/or graphic novel releases of recent vintage, hopefully on…
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Robert Cass
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Axel Foley, the Terminator, Supergirl, Mozart, and God all make appearances in this week’s Box Office Flashback to December 10, 1984.
Popdose Staff
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The Internet moves fast. Here’s a fond look back at our favorite links from the last seven days: “Lost” Glen Phillips record finally comes home [Addicted to Vinyl] AM, Then…
Clicker.com
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Finding great new music today is hard. Since MTV no longer airs videos and the radio refuses to play anything but Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, where can we get…
Michael Fortes
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Neil Young and Joanna Newsom lent their talents to a worthy cause in San Francisco, and Michael Fortes gives the rundown on how it all unfolded.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Just in case your holidays weren’t bland enough, Train and Coca-Cola have joined forces to “shake” them “up.”
Scott Malchus
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By its third season, “Norm” wound up in the Friday night death slot and was cancelled when ratings took a nose dive. ABC blew it. “Norm” was a durable workplace comedy that featured MacDonald at his likable best.
Jon Cummings
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President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it the GOP holding the recovery hostage, or is it their corporate sponsors?
Dw. Dunphy
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There’s one thing you have to say about the editors of movies and their trailers, and by extension, those who score the movies afterward. Even if the director has an…
Ken Shane
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In case you missed the sly double entendre in John Lennon’s lyrics for “Come Together,” Ike & Tina Turner released their own version to drive the point home.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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We don’t agree with Willie Nelson’s decision to cut a Christmas duet with Jessica Simpson…but we understand.
Jeff Giles
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Flipped (Warner Bros., 2010) Remember the pre-North era, when Rob Reiner could do no wrong? Those days were long ago. Now, we count ourselves lucky if a Reiner movie is…
Dw. Dunphy
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In time travel movies, the big difficulty the characters are always concerned about is the paradox. Don’t do this, this or that or else you’ll bring on a paradox, it’ll…
Dave Steed
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Come on Loooooverboy and check out more tracks that Dave Steed spotlights in his hit series Bottom Feeders.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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On the eighth day of Mellowmas, Laura from General Hospital recorded a holiday album and we are totally not making this up.
Pete Chianca
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When I was a kid, every year around this time I would watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I did this despite the fact that critics regularly put this 1964…