Kevin Smith is a writer first, director second. Even his most passionate fan would have a hard time arguing the merits of Smith’s directing technique, which mostly consists of filming…
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.
Scott Cederlund
3 Min Read
I don’t know many comics that actually smolder. Beginning with the cover of Parker: The Man With The Getaway Face, as we barely see Parker’s eyes between the bandages on…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here’s the first installment.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
“Rob Smith Can’t Say No” to the power-pop goodness of Boston’s Oranjuly. Check it out at Popdose.
Bob Cashill
6 Min Read
As No Concessions heads off to the wilds of Wisconsin, land of Leinenkugels and cheese curds, for its annual constitutional a word must be said about Predators. The other week…
Molly Marinik
1 Min Read
BOTTOM LINE: A sweet and funny script, some decent musical-theatre jams, and a killer cast — I’ll Be Damned has a lot going for it, although it’s certainly not perfect. (It…
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
While his partner in OutKast, Andre ”3000″ Benjamin, indulged increasingly bizarre flights of fancy, ranging from grass skirts and shoulder pads to Beatlesque jangle pop, Antwan ”Big Boi” Patton was…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week, we count down from 35 to 21. Did your favorite make the list?
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Having a mopey summer, like me? This is the mix for you. Chris Isaak – Dancin’ from Baja Sessions (1996) Cotton Jones – Gotta Cheer Up from Paranoid Cocoon (2009)…
Dave Lifton
2 Min Read
The Popdose Podcast returns with yet another show devoid of a theme, but with an added bonus – alcohol!
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
With my new series, False Metal, Dead! – I’m taking a look at the 300 metal albums that have a place on my iPod, ranked for your pleasure. Each one…
Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
A week ago we were in North Olmsted, Ohio, once again vacationing with family and friends. Despite the costs and some of the emotional baggage that must be sorted through…
Bob Cashill
11 Min Read
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II is one sequel that couldn’t be more welcome this summer. Hot weather goes well with hothouse tales of lust, greed, and the five other…
Tony Sclafani
1 Min Read
The history of pop music is filled with stories about record companies mishandling bands. But the plight of the early 1980s Washington, DC-based 4 Out of 5 Doctors is one…
Ken Shane
4 Min Read
On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main…
Michael Fortes
1 Min Read
Singer/songwriter Steve Poltz chats about his new album, Dreamhouse, writing songs with Jewel, and his favorite system of yoga in his Popdose interview with Michael Fortes.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Everyone knows Ben E. King. He’s the guy who co-wrote and sang the immortal “Stand By Me,” which was a Top Ten hit in 1961, and again in 1987. True…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
In a time where anyone with a laptop can churn out a record, it is difficult to know where to stop and listen. Michael Parr has one that deserves your time.
Ann Logue
2 Min Read
Although I have given birth, I don’t particularly like being identified as a mother. Even worse, I hate being called ”a mom” by anyone other than my son, because that…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Christopher Nolan’s latest movie has Jeff Johnson thinking…about movies that make you think.
Michael Fortes
4 Min Read
There’s a new Parson Red Heads EP on the way and a summer tour about to begin, as Michael Fortes gives his latest report on the Parlour to Parlour Class of 2009.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
It’s been 7 years since a Meltgsnow record, with the group having released their debut in 2003 and only getting to the follow up now. They are based out of…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
We’ve got a ton more from the letter C this week, as we take a look at the songs that hit the rock charts in the ’80s but never crossed…
David Allen Jones
9 Min Read
Welcome back to Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, my little forum in which I attempt to spotlight several recent works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy, and…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Great Big Sea is one of those bands that fills a particular niche — in this case, traditional Newfoundland folk with a modern pop twist — so completely that no…
Michael Parr
2 Min Read
Michael Parr takes on the latest Prince record, 20Ten, and promises not to “just fill your head with numbers.”
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Curtains for You’s publicist pitched us What a Lovely Surprise to Wake Up Here as “The Beatles meets vaudeville meets The Muppet Show,” a bizarrely promising description that led Way…
Michael Fortes
4 Min Read
Punk? Metal? No matter what you call Suicidal Tendencies, there’s no argument that 1990’s “Lights…Camera…Revolution” was a peak for the band.