Jeff Scott Soto is one of the great long-time underdogs of AOR. Rob Smith advocates for his immediate ascension to superstardom, in this week’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
Michael Fortes
2 Min Read
Michael Fortes catches up with the stars of Parlour to Parlour’s 14th episode, The New Up, as they release a new EP and prepare for another national tour.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Date that the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon, changed its name to Tigress Books: 8/24/10 Nils Lofgren…
Mark Feldman
1 Min Read
What if the Beatles stayed together — and the best of their solo work ended up on Fab Four albums?
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Philadelphia’s War On Drugs follows up their 2008 album “Wagonwheel Blues” with an EP that defies that conventions of that format.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
I never thought I’d be interested in listening to an Aaron Neville record. Yes, of course he’s done some stellar work with the Neville Brothers, but fellow children of the…
Will Harris
2 Min Read
Not every album released on Not Lame Records was the very definition of power pop, but 10 years on, Mark Helm’s Everything’s OK remains an album of powerful pop. It’s an important distinction…and a great record.
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Think you know your cover art? Come test your knowledge in this week’s Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Powder your noses, ladies — CAPTAIN VIDEO! is back with a new transmission from the 1980th Dimension.
Dw. Dunphy
4 Min Read
Dear readers, I’ve never consciously steered you wrong before and I don’t intend to start now, so we’ll make the declaration right up front that I am being compensated for…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
The second (and seemingly final) Traveling Wilburys album turns 20 this week — and for Dw. Dunphy, the disappointment still stings a little.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Very shortly, I’m going to abandon any kind of commentary on these KBCO things altogether — it is a seventeen-volume series, after all, and we’re only five in — but…
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Dw. Dunphy
15 Min Read
This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
Kelly Stitzel
2 Min Read
“They’re all gonna laugh at you!” But not if you join Kelly Stitzel as she explores the soundtrack to the first film adapted from a Stephen King novel, Carrie
Dw. Dunphy
1 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 while there’s a solitary teen mom left…
Michael Fortes
2 Min Read
Peace and love – they were meant to be together. With that in mind, Michael Fortes brings together a mix of 20 songs with “peace” and “love” in their titles.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
This Sunday, PBS Masterpiece Mystery unveils a new “Sherlock” for our time. Does this modern detective retain the flavor of the original? Ken Shane finds out.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
As the latest round of would-be blockbusters lines up at a theater near you, Popdose looks back at the box office totals of yesteryear. This week, we revisit the Top…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Headbang along with Dave Steed as we inch closer to the top metal albums in the world.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
A strong, effective piece of songwriting that blended hard rock with some new wave leanings, you hear an unexpected poignancy in “Little Guitars.” That’s right, a Van Halen song that actually has feeling.
Zack Dennis
10 Min Read
UPDATE: they finally posted spreads for the Jacksonville — Kansas City, Philadelphia — Tennessee, and Oakland — Denver games, with no big surprises. They also moved the spread down to…
Ann Logue
2 Min Read
Musicians and writers used to be able to rely on record companies and publishers for advances, but those are smaller and harder for mere mortals to get than in times past. And, many bands have found to their chagrin that record companies offered the most expensive form of financing when all was said and done. And yet, the books want to be written, the music wants to be played. And even if it wants to be free, there are costs involved. When the going gets tough, creative people get creative.
Dw. Dunphy
11 Min Read
From time to time, it is interesting to look back on albums often regarded as classic, if just to divine what is so classic about them. Some albums have had…
David Allen Jones
11 Min Read
Here we go again with CoCSJ, in which I opine of comics and graphic novel releases of recent vintage, most of which should be available at a brick-and-mortar or online…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Earlier this year HBO aired the New Orleans-based series Treme, featuring remarkable music each week. Now it’s been collected in a soundtrack album.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
Season Three of Sons of Anarchy is suffering from plot and character misdirection.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Occasionally there is an event in the music world that transcends the mundane. The release of Bob Dylan’s publishing demos from the early ’60s is such an event.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Gregg Giuffria hands his balls over to Gene Simmons, Glenn Hughes comes back to rock and Hooters! Can’t go wrong with that combo.
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
As we approach Halloween, Revival House takes a look back at the original massacre of the Texas chainsaw variety.
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
Dave Steed headbangs along with new releases from Woe, October Falls, Firewind and more.