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
8 Min Read
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
2 Min Read
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
2 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the new Kenny G record — but he can offer some non-lethal alternatives.
Dave Lifton
2 Min Read
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
2 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
This week’s Friday Mixtape features tracks from Catherine Wheel, Trashcan Sinatras, Matthew Sweet and many more!
Scott Cederlund
1 Min Read
Scott Cederlund reflects on the state of the Sunday funnies, and reviews DC’s newly compiled Wednesday Comics series.
Popdose Staff
2 Min Read
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
7 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
Danger! Scott Malchus has been struck by HIGH VOLTAGE in this week’s Basement Songs column!
Bob Cashill
10 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
Thirty years ago, Airplane! arrived in theaters, changing spoof comedy, Turkish prisons, and jive-talking old ladies forever.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
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
2 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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
10 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
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. …
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
I’ll tell you one thing right from the jump; Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy/Concord Music Group), may be my favorite album of the year from a…
Dave Lifton
1 Min Read
Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 on penalties) As with Uruguay v. South Korea, this was always going to be the appetizer to the main course later in the day. But the…
Will Harris
2 Min Read
Bubblegum pop god Mark Bacino is back with his third album, and Will Harris is there to find out what took so long.
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
As the story goes, the initial scene backstage at Lilith Fair in 1997 was a somewhat lonely one: many of the featured artists stayed in their individual dressing rooms with…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
It’s a rare but welcome event for Ken Shane when Jimmy Webb releases a new album.
Jason Miller
1 Min Read
It’s not easy being a fan of Wolf Parade. They are one of those bands that just seem too good to be true. Like some band in a dream, you…
Ted Asregadoo
3 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE I don’t know about you, but the 4th of July used to be one of my favorite holidays (now it’s Thanksgiving). Perhaps it was because…