Michael Parr reviews The Weepies’ recent performance at the Hiro Ballroom in NYC.
Jon Cummings
5 Min Read
One of America’s greatest singer/songwriters gets the jukebox-musical treatment in L.A., bringing to life his brilliantly drawn characters and showcasing his caustic wit.
Dw. Dunphy
17 Min Read
Welcome back! Apologies to all who have been waiting for Part Two to arrive in a timely manner. It’s been, shall we say, an interesting few weeks at Dunphy Central,…
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
Rob Smith gives thanks for his friends, readers, and Foreigner’s “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
Jack Feerick
1 Min Read
A fan favorite returns! You asked for the repost, and we listened. It’s the soundtrack for your holiday trip, lovingly hand-selected by the Popdose staff — the Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape, expanded with over seventy minutes of NEW material!
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
Happy holidays, David Bowie…and to all a good last-day sale as Barnes and Noble’s Criterion Collection blowout winds down. Bob Cashill sifts recent releases.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
With his 50’s slicked back hair and a laid back, inviting charm, plus the ability to relate to any person who walks through the doors to The Shootist, the family run Colorado establishment that he runs, “Lock ‘n Load” creator/host Josh T. Ryan is a star.
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
As you get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, be thankful that you don’t have to spend the holiday with a bratty pre-teen with a bad haircut. Join Kelly Stitzel as she takes a look at the soundtrack for the John Hughes-penned 1991 film, Dutch.
Popdose Staff
3 Min Read
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not ever. No, never, no way, no how….
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
In “Friday Night Lights,” Season Five, Episode Four, there’s trouble on the homestead in East Dillon.
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Hi! This is Ethan. Well, technically, he’s Super Ethan in this picture. Which makes sense, ’cause Ethan is my super-awesome nephew. Ethan turned nine years old last month. Which means…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
You’ve heard about her on our Twitter stream. You’ve wondered what all the fuss was about. Amy Petty’s new album has been released, and it’s time to find out.
Dave Steed
9 Min Read
Dave Steed continues to look at the 300 metal albums he headbangs to, including Chemlab, Morbid Angel, Agony Column and the Obsessed.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
And so we’ve come to Volume 7 in our look at the KBCO Studio C series. Vol. 7 was the first KBCO retrospective, meaning it’s got a lot of stuff…
Zack Dennis
7 Min Read
UPDATE: Well, the computer started off its week in a hole, as it badly missed its top play for the week last night. The table below shows my final bets;…
Matt Springer
8 Min Read
Fittingly, the first installment of our alternative look at Bruce Springsteen’s career puts its foot to the floor and doesn’t look back.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The 1972 blaxploitation film “Across 110 Street” has been largely forgotten, but Bobby Womack’s indelible title song lives on.
David Allen Jones
8 Min Read
Here we go again with 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…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Mutiny on the Bounty (Warner Bros., 1935) It made Oscar history as the first film to earn Best Actor nominations for all three of its male leads (an admittedly distinguished…
Robin Monica Alexander
1 Min Read
Robin Monica Alexander loves Shakespeare, but she hates racism more. In the latest Random Play, she asks why we keep making excuses for “The Merchant of Venice.”
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed takes a Journey into the “Electric Eye” of the ’80s with more of your favorite and least favorite rock hits of the decade.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Ocean’s 11 (Warner Bros., 1960) They’re a pop culture institution — hell, they’re heroes to some people — but the Rat Pack really didn’t make that many movies as a…
Dave Steed
3 Min Read
Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Atheist, Nails, Drudkh and Yngwie!
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
Dear Mr./Ms. music supervisor who was probably born two years after Glory Daze is set: in the year 1986, no heterosexual male danced in front of his dorm room mirror listening to Duran Duran. And if he did (but I swear he didn’t) he wouldn’t have listened to ”Girls on Film,” which was released in 1981
Mark Feldman
1 Min Read
Part 7: Rockestra (1980) As the 70s drew to a close, our alternate-reality Beatles found themselves still mostly on top of the world, albeit with more company than they had…
Dave Lifton
3 Min Read
A new series in which Dave Lifton and Matt Springer envision a universe where Bruce Springsteen doesn’t take three years to make an album.
Scott Cederlund
4 Min Read
What would you do if it was going to be impossible to commit a crime? Not just hard or tough but flatout impossible? What if your own government took the…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
It’s the 20th anniversary of Empire, and Popdose speaks with Geoff Tate to discuss new music, how people experience it and how a band stays together almost 30 years.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
In “Friday Night Lights,” season five, episode three, Coach Taylor enforces standards and Vince struggles with his father’s homecoming.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Men of a Certain Age isn’t intense and draining; it’s light on its feet and skillfully mixes the comedy and the drama to make for a great alternative to most of the procedurals on the broadcast networks or the dark dramas that appear on FX and AMC.