“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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Break out your magnifying glass and record collection: it’s time for this week’s Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
It seems awfully quaint today, but it really wasn’t that long ago that King Kong was close to the pinnacle of gee-whiz special effects entertainment. I was born in the…
Rob Smith
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David Coverdale and Whitesnake delivered a poetic kill shot to the heart with 1990’s “Now You’re Gone.” Rob Smith discusses the bloody artifact in Popdose’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
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Dw. Dunphy
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
Molly Marinik
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Molly Marinik reviews Time Stands Still, the new Broadway play that’s full of instigating intellectual content. It’s topical and star-studded.
Popdose Staff
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John Lennon would have been 70 years old tomorrow. The Popdose staff has gathered to pay tribute.
Kelly Stitzel
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“Wolfman’s got nards!” Kelly Stitzel kicks off a month of Halloween-themed posts with the cult ’80s hit, The Monster Squad.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
In honor of John Lennon’s 70th birthday October 9, Popdose presents a collection of Lennon covers in The Friday Mixtape.
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
There is very little difference between breakup bravado and a midlife crisis. Both make people do drastic things, buy pink Corvettes, show off in front of potential suitors and, sometimes,…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
How does a comic book come together? By chance and friendship. Read today’s Basement Songs to find out about the latest (co) creation by Scott Malchus. Don’t worry, there are still a couple songs, too.
Dw. Dunphy
3 Min Read
In celebration of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, Capitol Records has released a remastered set of his solo work, arriving in digi-envelopes to mirror last year’s Beatles…
Scott Cederlund
3 Min Read
There are lots of X-Men books on the stands right now, and Remender and OpeÁ±a’s “Uncanny X-Force” is the ass-kicker of the bunch.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
One hundred albums down in our countdown of Dave Steed’s 300 best metal albums of all time. This week, Sabbath, Danzig, Black Label Society, Slipknot and more!
Ted Asregadoo
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Ted Asregadoo reviews the latest in the Classic Albums series, this one focusing on Rush’s two most influential LPs, 2112 and Moving Pictures.
Dw. Dunphy
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This review is late. Eight years late, to be exact but I do have an excuse. The only way I could have gotten it in on time would be to…
Zack Dennis
2 Min Read
FRIDAY UPDATE: Apparently Jay Cutler’s precious little melon is too bruised for him to play, so the line in the Chicago-Carolina game has moved from -3 to +1. That’s right,…
Emilia Rhodes
1 Min Read
The Vampire Diaries returns for a second season with werewolves, secrets, and a vengeful ex.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
How does a lucky reader like yourself win this bitchin’ CD/DVD prize pack? Simple — answer a ridiculous question and e-mail me your answer.
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane celebrates the six-month anniversary of his Soul Serenade column with an awesome mix that includes every song that has appeared in his column so far.
David Allen Jones
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Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, that more-or-less weekly and rarely on-time feature in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
There’s really nothing all that amusing about the newspaper industry’s death spiral, but that hasn’t stopped Richard Hine from using it as the backdrop for Russell Wiley Is Out to…
Ann Logue
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The shift to electronic media not only means that fewer CDs and paperbacks will end up in thrift shops, but it also means that we can forget about that crazy time when owning a Vanilla Ice CD seemed like a good idea.