“You know, he sounded JUST as good as he sounded when I saw him in the ’90s!” The comment, uttered by a fellow concertgoer as we were leaving Sunday night’s…
Scott Malchus
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Skins feels more authentic than almost every teen driven show on television. The writing is consistently excellent and these young actors will break your heart.
Scott Malchus
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Popdose preps you for the upcoming TV season with quick looks at some of the most anticipated new shows from the four major networks.
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No to finding the answer to the ages-old question: Do they play Josh Groban music in Hell?
Jeff Giles
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More than 20 years after reaching the point of no return, Nu Shooz are back with a new album, leaving an astonished Jeff Giles to ask: You Again?
Allen Lulu
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In the long history of rock music, there have always been two constants. One is a steady stream of pablum spoonfed by the industry conglomerates feeding their own beasts and…
Jeff Giles
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The Blu-ray market was made for reissues, but not all reissues are created equal. With that in mind, here are four recent Blu-ray sets that bring some hit films of…
Jeff Giles
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I’m assuming most of you are already aware of KBCO and its legendary Studio C series, copies of which routinely go for megabucks on Amazon. If you haven’t heard of…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: A perfect blend of comedy and drama, Tigers Be Still is as entertaining as it is moving. And it’s a steal — tickets are only $20 for this…
Ken Shane
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The self-titled debut album from the Clash knocked the music world on its ass in 1977, but it took two more years to reach US shores.
Kelly Stitzel
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John Cusack goes on a cross-country journey with Daphne Zuniga to find The Sure Thing and Kelly Stitzel finally decides to go along for the ride.
Bob Cashill
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Two years ago I took a friend to see the acclaimed Broadway revival of The Seagull, starring Kristin Scott Thomas. At intermission we got to talking about some of the…
Tony Redman
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In this week’s mixtape you’ll find pairs of the same song by two different artists. I did try to lay down some ground rules for myself, though: 1. No parody…
Scott Cederlund
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I’m kind of amazed at how much of Marvel’s Golden Age roots are lost to the past. Thanks to Roy Thomas’s 1980-era efforts like All Star Squadron and the miniseries…
Zack Dennis
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To celebrate Son of Gamblor’s incredible debut picking winners against the spread (6-0-2) we’ll look at the top rookie debuts in professional sports history.
Dave Steed
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This week we’re looking at numbers 220-211 in our trek to look at the 300 metal albums on my iPod, in the order I prefer them. It’s a little thrash…
Jack Feerick
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I like third albums. They’ve got a certain revelatory character about them. They’re not always the best records of an artist’s career (although they often are), but from them you…
Ken Shane
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“Show and Tell” is just one of those songs that thrills me whenever it comes on the radio. It’s been doing that since Al Wilson released it in 1973. I…
Dw. Dunphy
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I’ve been a supporter of the group The Choir for a long time. In fact, one of my first contributions to Popdose was an appreciation of the band. They’ve collectively…
Rob Smith
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Clare Burson chases the ghosts of family members lost in the Holocaust on her excellent new album, “Silver and Ash.” Read Rob Smith’s review at Popdose.
David Allen Jones
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Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, that more-or-less weekly feature in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some…
Jeff Johnson
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Satan takes the elevator to a theater near you in this weekend’s Devil, reminding Jeff Johnson of cinematic Beelzebubs past.
Dave Steed
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Part 18 is a short one in order to make a clean break from the letter F, but most of the songs are quality and that’s what counts, right? Enjoy some…
Scott Malchus
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Film legends Michael Caine and Michael Douglas return with two diversely different films. Both men, each two-time Academy Award winners, no longer have anything to prove and could easily rest…
Scott Malchus
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CBS’ The Good Wife is one of the best written and produced shows on television. But that’s not the only reason to watch the season one DVD, it’s the superb…
Dw. Dunphy
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Let me bring you down for a moment. Remember that song “Silent Lucidity” you heard that night when you and (insert name here) went all the way? If you wound…
Dave Steed
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Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) If you have been brought here by simply clicking on a link after running a Google search for ”Linkin Park Rules” and are…
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?
Robert Cass
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Mayor Cass tips his hat (and the rest of his wardrobe) to the outgoing mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, and uploads a Nada Surf concert from 2008 for your downloading pleasure.
Dw. Dunphy
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I know two things you’re thinking right now. The first is, how awful that such a wonderful actor as Kevin McCarthy has been lost to us. The second is, really?…