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.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Following this year’s reissue of Exile On Main Street, and the Stones In Exile documentary, the Stones have crowned a great year with an Exile-era concert film.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Psycho (Universal, 1960) The legend at the bottom of the cover says it all: “An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece.” Boasting one of the most legendary scenes ever filmed and decades of…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Warner Bros., 2010) A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most enduring (and profitable, natch) horror franchises in history — and Michael Bay’s…
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
Rod Stewart has made another crappy standards album. “Rob Smith Can’t Say No,” but he CAN suggest some alternative listening.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Another day, another volume of KBCO Studio C goodness! Like the stuff we’ve seen already, Volume 4 is a pleasant blend of classic artists (Loudon Wainwright III), flavors of the…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
I believe that like any great character of fiction, we see a part of ourselves in Don Draper. We see a human being with faults, albeit ones that are amplified by being the central character of a hit TV series. The lucky few out there who’ve never questioned their purpose and meaning in the world probably aren’t the people making Mad Men one of the most watched series on cable television.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Following up his rustic classic “Tumbleweed Connection” was no easy task for Elton John, but in 1971 he released another dusky gem. Ken Shane remembers.