In 1970, the Dead threw the music world a curveball. Workingman’s Dead was a complete musical departure for the band, and among their new fans was Ken Shane.
David Medsker
1 Min Read
If someone asks me what kind of music I listen to, I’ll give them the simple answer: modern rock. The truth, though, is a little more complicated than that (ain’t…
Scott Cederlund
5 Min Read
Naoki Urasawa likes to create questions in his stories. In Monster, it was what wass Johann’s endgame? In Pluto, who is killing the world’s most powerful robots and why? 20th…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
My apologies for going AWOL last week. The family was sick and well, sickness wins over metal sometimes. But the kick-ass metal is back! With False Metal, Dead! we’re taking…
Scott Malchus
7 Min Read
In the fall of 1984, the Make A Wish Foundation contacted the band Journey. A 16-year old fan from Cleveland named Kenny Sykaluk was in the final days of his…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
I have written extensively about Laura Nyro for Popdose. There was my review of the splendid Iconoclassic reissue of her live album Season of Light, and more recently, a review…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
With Machete arriving in theaters this weekend, Jeff Johnson has his mind on sweet revenge — of the cinematic variety.
Bob Cashill
10 Min Read
Roger Corman more than earned the honorary Oscar he picked up last year. He wrote, produced, and/or directed some terrific flicks, from Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) and The…
David Allen Jones
6 Min Read
Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine upon a handful of recent releases of the comic book and/or graphic novel type, some…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Break out your magnifying glass and record collection: it’s time for this week’s super soundtrack edition Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
So what did they call mashups before the term existed? Well, whatever you call it, this is one. The Topsiders decided to take popular hits of the day and rearrange…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
We move on this week to the sixth letter of the alphabet and look at more tunes that hit the Billboard rock charts in the 1980s but failed to cross…
Mark Feldman
1 Min Read
What if the Beatles had never broken up…and their best solo tracks ended up on Fab Four albums?
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
Oh, Gossip Girl, why did you tease me so? After stealing my heart last year, you went away for a summer vacation and returned confused and flustered, like a co-ed…
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
Satanic Warmaster, Nachzehrer (Werewolf/Northern Heritage) ”In times of strife a fire burns / Warmaster returns.” Such is the chorus of ”Warmaster Returns,” an appropriate track since this is the first…
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
Miles Davis once quipped that he had changed the course of jazz “four or five times.” If you know anything about jazz, and I don’t profess to know much, you…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
You remember the greatest hits…and now we take you into Steely Dan’s deep cuts with a Greatest Bits for all you major dudes.
Ted Asregadoo
3 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE As is often the case, ideas for this feature seem to pop up while driving to and from work – which is when I do…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
In 2007, two years before Fox’s Glee was credited for reviving the musical comedy, HBO was setting trends (again) by airing Flight of the Conchords, a musical comedy starring New…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
For the kids of my generation, Heart was just another source of power ballads — sort of a slightly more hairsprayed and corseted version of Starship or Chicago — and…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Pity poor Rhino Entertainment, and their vaults bursting with classic tracks from excessively anthologized artists. Take Aretha Franklin, for instance: she has more compilations to her credit than most artists…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
A look behind the scenes of a-ha’s smash hit debut with Jeri Heiden, the artist responsible for the album’s iconic cover.
Robert Cass
4 Min Read
Mayor Cass returns with an end-of-summer recap from prison and features a 1990 bootleg from Phil Collins’s Seriously Live! world tour.
Will Harris
25 Min Read
Why does someone as lovely as Grey DeLisle spend most of her career stuck in a recording booth? Because Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated and countless other cartoons wouldn’t be nearly as good without her.
Popdose Staff
6 Min Read
With summer winding down, the Popdose staff is counting down its favorite songs of the season. Did your favorite “Summer Song” make the list?
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions — and the road to mediocre country-rock records is paved with steel guitars, plaintive drawls, and lyrics about one-horse towns. Make…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Mashups may not be considered as hip as they were five years ago, but they can still be a lot of fun if you’re in the mood to dance your…
Michael Fortes
4 Min Read
On the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death, Michael Fortes revisits the Texas guitar master’s swan song: a collaboration with brother Jimmie Vaughan.
Scott Malchus
5 Min Read
Long before I knew who Paul Newman and Robert Redford were, before I understood what a long con was or even what a hooker did, I knew of Scott Joplin,…