So, I’ve listened to thousands of metal albums both old and new and at some point decided to start making a list of the top albums I’ve heard. It started…
Jeff Johnson
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With Robert Rodriguez’s Predator reboot just around the corner, Jeff Johnson looks back at the testosterone-fueled action orgy that started it all.
Robin Monica Alexander
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Twenty years ago, Harry Connick shared his recipe for love — and led a new generation of pop crooners to rediscover some time-tested platinum ingredients.
Ann Logue
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Draumalandid is part of a full-on multimedia expose of Alcoa’s aluminum smelters in Reydarfjordur, Iceland. The company’s first plant was planned in 2002, built in 2005, and became live in…
Ken Shane
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Harvey Fuqua died on Tuesday. He was 80 years-old. Fuqua was from Louisville, KY, where in 1951 he founded a group called the Crazy Sounds. After the members of the…
Dave Lifton
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Germany 0-1 Spain The soccer world, including myself, had bought so into this concept of a New Germany – one that reflects a more open society than we’ve been accustomed…
Matt Springer
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The news spread across my Twitter feed late yesterday afternoon like a pixelated wildfire: 1) Liz Phair had a new single out; 2) It was fucking horrible. These things are…
Tony Redman
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Our selection for this week is the Peter Pan Orchestra & Chorus’s I Believe: Songs of Devotion, an album of religious numbers presumably geared toward children. But this is quite a…
David Allen Jones
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Time once more for Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to spotlight several recent works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy, and think you…
Michael Fortes
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In today’s Class of ’09 update, Michael Fortes reports the latest developments with the subjects of Parlour to Parlour Episode 3, instrumental duo Silian Rail.
Ann Logue
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People who give personal finance advice tend to give the same advice over and over. That’s because it works. And one of the most basic ways to start getting a…
Dw. Dunphy
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Songwork is an ongoing series in which Popdose writers collaborate on the songwriting and recording process. For earlier entries, click here. One of the biggest challenges of this project is…
Dave Steed
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I’m finally getting around to reviewing a mess of albums that have come out in the first half of 2010 that I just couldn’t find the 1000 words needed to devote…
Dave Steed
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This week in Bottom Feeders, Dave Steed serves up minor hits from the Cars, Camper Van Beethoven, and a certain man who will fight for your honor.
Dave Lifton
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Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands Usually in soccer, the phrase “Let the old defender who played for years in Scotland shoot from distance” is a good defensive strategy. But for Uruguay, it…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the new Kenny G record — but he can offer some non-lethal alternatives.
Dave Lifton
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Argentina 0-4 Germany Germany might not have played a traditional Teutonic style, but their tactics today were straight out of their playbook: score early, sit back and counter strongly. Part…
Dave Lifton
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Netherlands 2-1 Brazil This matchup of two of the most celebrated diving/soccer teams lived up to its billing. It helped that Brazil took advantage of Holland’s defense napping early on….
Michael Parr
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This week’s Friday Mixtape features tracks from Catherine Wheel, Trashcan Sinatras, Matthew Sweet and many more!
Scott Cederlund
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Scott Cederlund reflects on the state of the Sunday funnies, and reviews DC’s newly compiled Wednesday Comics series.
Popdose Staff
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Some artists are world renowned for their hit songs, others may never have had a hit at all, but they’ve recorded music that has lasted and has accrued considerable fan…
Robert Cass
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On Tuesday CNN’s Larry King announced that he’ll end his 25-year-old talk show this fall, having been beaten consistently in the ratings the past year by his 9 PM cable-news…
Scott Malchus
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Danger! Scott Malchus has been struck by HIGH VOLTAGE in this week’s Basement Songs column!
Bob Cashill
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The word ”asshole” reverberated throughout New York’s Film Forum as the press screening of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which plays there through July 13, ended. As…
Jeff Johnson
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Thirty years ago, Airplane! arrived in theaters, changing spoof comedy, Turkish prisons, and jive-talking old ladies forever.
Ken Shane
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On Tuesday, my review of the new Jimmy Webb album, Just Across the River, ran on Popdose. If you read it, you know that I am a huge fan of…
Scott Malchus
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What defines a cult television series? Is it the number of viewers watching the show? Perhaps it’s the devotion of the fans? Is it the genre in which the series…
Tony Redman
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One of the biggest American trends in the mid to late 1970s was CB radios. Originally used by truckers to communicate with each other, scads of other people decided to…
David Allen Jones
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Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to spotlight several recent works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy, and think…
Dave Steed
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So, I took at least an inital recommendation last week to listen to some Blue Oyster Cult and spun the record the vast majority said to listen to – Mirrors. …