Let’s get this out of the way up front: Bison B.C. is sick. As a huge fan of 3 Inches of Blood, I first heard of Bison B.C. on their…
Dw. Dunphy
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In retrospect, it was unfair to peg Michael Knott as a Christian rocker. Over the years, his stubborn drive to say what he wants to say, in the way he…
Dave Steed
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Being an instrumental band, Karma to Burn is probably never going to get the recognition they deserve. After all, it’s the frontman that draws the crowd in and makes the…
Jeff Giles
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Meat Loaf returns with his eleventh album this week, leaving Jeff Giles to cry out in anguish: You Again?
Ken Shane
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A funny thing happened to Everest on the road to releasing their second album. The plan was to release the album on Vapor Records, just as they had released their…
Jeff Giles
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Mel Gibson has always had a fetish for cinematic struggle — from his acting career, dotted with heartbroken and often bloodied law enforcement officers, to his directorial efforts, notably fixated…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When rock-and-roll reared its beautiful/ugly head, the backlash against it was pretty ferocious. The cultural conservative invective against this form of music ran the gamut…
Michael Parr
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Are you a record artwork aficionado? Try and solve the 57th edition of Cover Me!
Jeff Giles
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This week, Jeff Giles discusses the artwork for Guster’s 1999 album with designer Robert Hamilton.
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith revisits Kansas’ “All I Wanted” and singer Steve Walsh’s toned pecs in this week’s “Death by Power Ballad,” only at Popdose.
Bob Cashill
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Last week, Hit Girl. This week, Hit Pensioner, as Michael Caine mows ’em down as Harry Brown. This is familiar territory for Caine, whose nasty gangland thriller Get Carter still…
Ken Shane
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Released during the tumult of 1968, this Judy Collins album served Ken Shane as an oasis of serenity during some dark days.
Kelly Stitzel
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It had Geena Davis, Julie Brown, and a furry Jeff Goldblum. How was this not a hit?
Scott Malchus
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One of television’s finest series returns to NBC tonight, as the network begins airing the 4th season of Friday Night Lights. The 13 episodes that make up this season already…
Robert Cass
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Last week I mentioned that my mom took me to see Chicago in West Germany in 1977 with Matt Wardlaw and his older sister— I mean, his mother. Yes, of…
Jack Feerick
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Cymbals Eat Guitars — And the Hazy Sea from Why There Are Mountains (2009) The Dirty Three with Cat Power — Great Waves from Cinder (2005) The Be Good Tanyas…
Jeff Giles
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CAPTAIN VIDEO! returns from the 1980th dimension with another relic from the MTV vaults — and a startling discovery about Nick Nolte.
Sarah Gupta
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What the heck is a Poken, and why do you want to win one for your very own? Read and learn.
Scott Malchus
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I always feel inadequate in trying to express just how much I appreciate what Julie does for our family and how blessed we are that she is the mother of…
Jeff Johnson
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With Iron Man 2 on its way to theaters, Jeff Johnson takes a look at some great comic-to-film adaptations.
Matt Wardlaw
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Featuring a bunch of facial hair, a stack of hits, and at least one unnecessary drummer, .38 Special rocked Long Island in January of 1985. This week, Matt Wardlaw takes us back.
Ken Shane
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In 1968, Aretha Franklin had a hit with “Sweet, Sweet Baby (Since You’ve Been Gone),” but it was the B-side that broke hearts among soul music fans everywhere.
Jeff Giles
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Even the greatest artists make mistakes — including the mighty mighty Earth, Wind & Fire, as Jeff Giles discovers in this week’s Whoops! column.
David Allen Jones
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Time once more for Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to point out, in often rambling fashion, various offerings of a sequential graphics-type nature that I…
Dave Steed
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It’s the penultimate week of Bottom Feeders, with just one post for the 25th letter of the alphabet. Enjoy more tracks that failed to crack the Top 40 on the…
Michael Fortes
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Crazy cat ladies, candy corn campfires in the clouds… it can only mean two things: new music from the Happy Hollows, and Michael Fortes is bloody mental!
Taylor Long
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Horror movies, perhaps more than any other genre, have become ripe for redundancy. Blood-thirsty psychopath here, deadly virus outbreak there — you know the drill. This problem seems responsible for…
Jeff Giles
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There are only 26 letters in the Western alphabet, and thousands upon thousands of musical acts, so it’s only natural that every once in awhile, a band will end up…
Jeff Giles
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Have you ever wondered what inspired the images on your favorite album covers? Popdose kicks off a new series with a look at the artwork for one of 1984’s biggest hits.
Dw. Dunphy
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Considering that I was only three years old when Peter Frampton’s first solo album, Wind of Change, came out, I couldn’t tell you what impact that might have had on…