Molly Marinik reviews Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the new historical musical satire about America’s most emo president.
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
“Come play with us forever and ever and ever.” Kelly Stitzel invites you up to room 237 to listen to The Shining‘s epically creepy soundtrack.
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
30 Rock went back to its Saturday Night Live roots for a live broadcast. Scott Malchus takes a look at everything that went right for the Emmy Award winning series on Thursday night.
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
The Popdose staff curates this mix to be a companion through the headlong rush to the winter solstice.
Scott Cederlund
3 Min Read
In Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Red, Paul Moses is a monster. The former CIA operative who can’t escape the memories of the acts he did in the name of…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed presents 10 more of his favorite metal albums in his ultimate quest to get you to listen to 300 headbangers!
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Angie Mattson impressed Ken Shane when she opened for Justin Currie on his first solo US tour. Does her new album deliver on the promise of that performance?
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
Alas, poor Buckley. We knew you not. And here are some more cartoon characters that took the big dirt-nap.
Jon Cummings
8 Min Read
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and “Glee” rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Although I considered Carptree’s previous album Insekt (2008) to be one of that year’s best, even I had to admit it was a pretty dark series of songs. The combination…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Splice (Warner Bros., 2010) Remember that old Chiffon margarine ad campaign about what happens when you try to fool Mother Nature? It gets a creepy, CGI-enhanced spin in this thriller…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
With both schemes still performing at better than 80% for the season, Gamblor and Son of Gamblor have agreed to take a breather and have just 4 bets this week.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Solomon Burke was known as the King of Rock and Soul. When he died last Sunday, he left behind a long string of soul classics. Ken Shane remembers.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
Piping hot pizza and piping hot … organ music? Way Out Wednesday presents “At the Organ Grinder, Vol. 2,” plus a chance to help out a little friend of mine.
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
Maturity tends to be the dirtiest word in pop music. Fans of good pop seldom equate it with being “redolent with the heady fragrances of adulthood,” but more likely, “old…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Hangover: Extreme Edition (Warner Bros., 2010) No, you didn’t fall asleep for ten years — Warner Bros. really is double-dipping with The Hangover, a movie that only came out…
David Allen Jones
8 Min Read
Time once more for CoCSJ, now with an extra comma at no cost to you, in which I opine of comics and graphic novel releases of recent vintage, most of…
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
Things have been problematic for the post-Neal Morse era of Spock’s Beard. They’ve produced some good songs during this time, but never a full album that gelled completely. The closest…
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
In conjunction with our mini-series 50CCM50 (check out the first installment here), Popdose is giving away a unique prize to a lucky reader, but be warned – it is not…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Dave Steed features more rock songs that had their 15 minutes of fame in the ’80s and the smokin’ hot Nancy Wilson.
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is full of lies, awkward moments, and a few good laughs.
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
With Red about to hit movie screens, Jeff Johnson takes a look back at other aging movie characters who kicked some major ass.
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
“The Cleveland Show” has many of the same traits of its parent show, “Family Guy.” It’s funny, controversial, but it also has a lot of heart.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Secret of Kells (Flatiron, 2010) The surprise feelgood story of last year’s Academy Awards, this beautiful tribute to Celtic lore went from small Irish film to Oscar-nominee overnight —…
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
Dave Steed reviews new albums from Killing Joke, Monster Magnet, Earth, Grave Digger and more.
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
A status update on The Social Network tags the Wall Street sequel and Inside Job. But the sensitive may want to defriend the horrific Red White & Blue.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
There was an exciting, albeit brief, period in the early 1990s where bands of limited resources but unlimited ambition managed to not only get their records out to the public,…
Mark Feldman
2 Min Read
What if the Beatles had never broken up…and their best solo tracks ended up on Fab Four albums?
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
John Lennon’s traumatic teens, and the birth of the Beatles, get the little-British-art-film treatment. But can it work both as cinema and as Beatleography?