What I’ve noticed since last fall when I first started following the buzz surrounding indie electro rock duo, Sleigh Bells, is that they are a band people either love, hate…
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
Levi Stubbs never left. While Diana Ross split from the Supremes, Smokey Robinson migrated from his Miracles, and David Ruffin took off from the Temptations (ok, technically he was fired,…
Will Harris
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The noted sunshine-walker and erstwhile Soft Boy chats with Will Harris about his distinguished career in pop music.
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
Duncan has decided to end it all. Distraught and heartbroken, he sits down and writes a suicide note to his last five girlfriends hoping to make a point: Love doesn’t…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Filmgoers love to complain about everything we have to sit through before the main attraction, but there’s nothing like a great teaser trailer.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
In this series we’re taking a look at songs that hit the Rock and Modern Rock charts in the 1980s that didn’t cross over to the Billboard Hot 100. Today…
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 works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy and think you…
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
When it comes to the music of romantic longing, it’s hard to top the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, especially when set to the languid bossa nova rhythms that he…
Ted Asregadoo
4 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE What is it about certain cities that feeds a musician’s muse? New York is certainly one of the more popular cities where many ‘o band…
Robert Cass
2 Min Read
On May 12 the American Civil Liberties Union filed two free-speech lawsuits in Scranton, Pennsylvania, defending citizens who were charged with using profanity by local police. Seven days later CBS…
Robert Cass
2 Min Read
The Bootleg City teacher’s union went on strike this week, delaying the production of this week’s mayoral update. Or is it “teachers’ union?” Or just “teachers union” without any of…
Rob Smith
4 Min Read
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to singer/songwriter Elizabeth Harper or her new electro-pop band, Class Actress. Read about it at Popdose.com
Popdose Staff
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You’ve heard Elton John’s greatest hits — and now the Popdose staff gives you their favorite deep cuts from his catalog.
Bob Cashill
7 Min Read
”Someone explain to me why everyone believes in an impending zombie apocalypse,” requested George A. Romero of the crowd gathered to meet him at a recent sold-out screening of his…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
A few months ago, The Insider interviewed Gary Coleman. It became a momentary brouhaha. Show staffers and crew noted aloud that Coleman was, essentially, “the most negative person we’ve ever…
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
A cappella is defined as music that is sung without instrumental accompaniment. According to the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a cappella music was originally ”composed to be performed in chapels…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
I had never heard of Bettye LaVette until about four years ago. A friend had made me a mix CD to listen to on a road trip and on it…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
The new Apples In Stereo album, Travellers (sic) In Space and Time, finds the band traveling back to the ’70s and ’80s to dutifully recreate the sound of pop music…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Nearly 20 years after the album was released, Ron Nevison shares the strange story of how his mixes for Chicago Twenty 1 were replaced — and why he’s still seething.
Scott Malchus
5 Min Read
The summer of 1992 continued. Thanks to my good friend, Sally, I had found a worthwhile job working at The Bin, a nonprofit Natural Foods Store that trained mentally and…
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
Americans’ loathing for politicians has reached historic levels — and as Jon Cummings discovered, a squalid local race in one California county justifies their disdain.
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
True Blood is good, pulp fun. I’d never seen an episode before The Complete Second Season DVD box and honestly, I’ve never been an enormous fan of Anna Paquin’s acting,…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Jeff Johnson misses the days when pop culture could really surprise us — but hey, that new J.J. Abrams trailer is pretty cool, isn’t it?
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Gene Chandler scored a career-defining hit with “Duke of Earl” in 1962. Topping it wasn’t easy, but he found success again in 1964 with “Just Be True.”
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Well, you’ve got to give her credit for picking an honest title, anyway. Christina Aguilera called her latest album Bionic, and she meant it — this is an hour of…
Will Harris
2 Min Read
Popdose leaps onto the printed page with the publication of Will Harris’ new book, All You Need Is a Hook… The Best of Hooks ‘N’ You!
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
This is a fun album showing just how many recording artists were willing to plug a certain soft drink. It’s interesting to see the different approaches taken. The cuts are…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith waxes rhapsodic in his review of Truth & Salvage Co.’s debut album, only at Popdose.com.
Dave Steed
2 Min Read
It wasn’t until about 2008 or so that I really started getting into doom metal. But once I get into something, I go full bore. So I bought and listened…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
This week, more bands whose names start with the letter A, as we take a look at the songs that hit the Billboard Rock and Modern Rock charts but failed…