All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Jason Hare
2 Min Read
In honor of Easter, join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton as they talk about resurrection — pop culture style! It’s all in Episode 8 of the Popdose Podcast!
Ken Shane
3 Min Read
“The general theme of this record is trying to find balance in your life and being okay with decisions, mistakes, and even triumphs. Being satisfied with whatever world you’ve carved…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
There are some oddities in the Concert Vault. Oddities like a 1983 Michael Bolton gig from Dallas, TX, when Bolton was hanging on the frayed edges of a failed attempt…
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
Last week our kids’ school, Emblem Elementary in Saugus, held their third Cure Finders fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. For the past three years, the students at Emblem have…
Zack Dennis
2 Min Read
Just the facts, ma’am … Snoop Doggy Dogg – Who Am I (What’s My Name) Kristin Chenoweth – Last Name Bob Seger – Feel Like a Number Lee Michaels –…
Pete Chianca
1 Min Read
It’s that time of year again — and this April 1, Pete Chianca looks back at some of the finest fools in film.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
This album is very similar to a number of children’s albums I have, where the material is taken from a number of different sources that fall under the general artist…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
Just in time for this week’s Clash of the Titans remake, Jeff Johnson looks back on ten of the most magical moments from special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen.
Ann Logue
2 Min Read
A video that always makes me happy, and violates Viacom’s copyright: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vgMgLjMghuk” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] YouTube is taking another round of fire in the ongoing debate about…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
This week in Bottom Feeders, Dave Steed brings Dionne Warwick and Warrant together at long last.
David Allen Jones
8 Min Read
Time once more for yet another Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to point out various offerings of a sequential graphics-type nature that I think might…
Robert Cass
3 Min Read
Two weeks ago Jeff Giles asked me to review Talk About, the new album from Mishka, the first — and so far only — artist signed to j.k. livin Records,…
Ken Shane
3 Min Read
On February 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived in America, and everything changed. When I say everything, I don’t just mean music. The world was never the same. The societal upheaval…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Hollywood is forever trying to update stuff, and the results are almost always painful, either because the source material isn’t worth revisiting (hello, Karate Kid remake and CG-coated Alvin and…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible….
Bob Cashill
3 Min Read
Flicks don’t get any more testicular than 1999’s The Boondock Saints, a Beantown-flavored slab of Tarantino attitude that emerged as a minor cult hit. The sequel, with the marquee-hogging title…
Michael Fortes
2 Min Read
Michael Fortes has stumbled and fallen for the alluring songs and hypnotic voice of Berkeley’s Ash Reiter, and he thinks the same might happen to you too.
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
In a 1995 interview with Canada’s MuchMusic, Barenaked Ladies’ vocalist Steven Page attempted to describe his band’s new philosophy following the departure of keyboardist/percussionist Andy Creeggan. For a while, he…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Are you a connoisseur of album cover art? Try and solve the 54th edition of Cover Me!
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
When the Lightning Seeds sprouted on modern rock radio in the spring of 1990, their songs felt (as much as anything on modern rock radio could feel) like a comfy…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Gentle folk ballads performed in hushed voices by sensitive dudes with acoustic guitars have gotten kind of a bad rap since Zach Braff helped make Iron & Wine famous, and…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
An ugly, ageless motherfucker given to pork pie hats and boozy harmonica solos, Peter Wolf is about as rock ‘n’ roll as rock ‘n’ roll gets — the kind of…
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
In which Rob Smith hears a bizarre album of Hall & Oates covers, and is not pleased.
Bob Cashill
5 Min Read
I first saw Michael Sheen in his native England, in a 1999 National Theatre revival of John Osborne’s ”angry young man” play Look Back in Anger. I’d heard that he…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Ken Shane looks back on the many memorable events of 1968, including the release of a classic Simon & Garfunkel album.
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
It’s the 25th anniversary of “The Last Dragon” (that dragon’s old enough to rent a car!), and Kelly Stitzel’s got the lowdown on the movie and its soundtrack. Sho’nuff!
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces is another fine addition to his storied career. Here is a director who embraces his filmmaking influences to inform his movies. Almodovar creates unique visions of…
Robert Cass
4 Min Read
Folks, I have some exciting news to share with you — the Terrorist Dunking Booth is back! After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, none of us here in…