Rob Smith tells himself he’s over the Pretty Woman soundtrack, but is he the king of wishful thinking?
Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
Halfway through Rebecca Miller’s excellent The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, I began to wonder whether actress Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) was channeling Robin Wright’s performance, or vice versa. Both…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
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…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
We ’80s kids don’t have a lot to hang on to, so far as social achievements go. It was a difficult decade to grab a hold of. We had pop…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
Walking through the mobile home that functioned as the broadcast headquarters for the West Texas radio station KWES-FM, we made a stop in the middle room, which was the “promotions…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
James Mercer and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton have joined forces to create the indie super-group Broken Bells. Michael Parr reviews the group’s debut record.
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
Slap it up, flip it, rub it down, oh no! Bell Biv DeVoe’s debut is 20 years old!
Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
Scott Malchus reflects on his struggles of faith and spirituality in the latest Basement Songs.
Jeff Vrabel
1 Min Read
They were tougher than leather, but these three Queens legends weren’t strong enough to resist the temptation of the cameo-laden rap album…and with Crown Royal, they paid the price.
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Coming from the 1970s UK pub-rock scene, Graham Parker had to slip away from the shadows cast by Nick Lowe, the producer of his first album Howlin’ Wind, and the…
Ann Logue
1 Min Read
The March issue of The Atlantic has a thoroughly depressing article about how employment might not pick up when the economy recovers. As if that wasn’t enough to send you…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
Bottom Feeders tackles the letter U this week, which means we’re in for lots and lots of Roxannes.
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
Gentlemen Broncos is the brainchild of Jared and Jerusha Hess, the creators of Napoleon Dynamite. Whereas that cult classic was able to capitalize on the quirks of small town Utah…
Scott Malchus
6 Min Read
The 1979 biopic, Elvis, has finally found a home on DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. This made-for-TV movie was a huge success when it originally aired. There’s no question why:…
David Allen Jones
1 Min Read
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
1 Min Read
I wish that record companies, publicists, and critics for that matter, would kick the habit of feeling the need to describe artists in terms of other artists in their press…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Thanks to the folks at ‘Stache Media, we’re giving away a killer prize pack that includes the new Preservation Hall Jazz Band album — and a bunch of other stuff. Enter to win!
Ted Asregadoo
5 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE What possesses an artist to revisit his or her recordings years later and decide to remake the song? Sometimes it’s money, sometimes it’s about a…
Bob Cashill
3 Min Read
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) paired Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the nick of time. Two years later 55-year-old Chan is playing the Mr. Miyagi part in the Karate Kid…
Michael Fortes
3 Min Read
Is the “new” Jimi Hendrix album really worth all the hullabaloo? Popdose writer Michael Fortes digs deep to find out.
Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
Outrageous, over the top and a purely visceral experience, Bitch Slap is a throwback to the grindhouse pictures of the ’60s and ’70s, the kind of films that featured women…
Matthew Bolin
1 Min Read
John Fogerty was responsible for some of the best rock music of the ’60s — and, as Matthew Bolin discovers in his latest column, he was also a bit of a vengeful prick.
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
When offered the opportunity to review some country music for Popdose, I was excited. Our site does not have a bias against any particular genre (obviously), but it’s rather apparent…
Taylor Long
1 Min Read
When Wild Beasts came to New York City last fall, they found themselves in the pressured position of having a lot to prove. They’d made only one US trek beforehand,…
Ben Wiser
1 Min Read
Twenty years after it was released, Ben Wiser says Peter Murphy’s Deep still cuts you up.
Scott Malchus
3 Min Read
The latest entry into the category of Kaufman-esque surreal comedies, derived from the name of writer/director Charlie Kaufman, whose films include Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, is Sophie Barthes’s Cold…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
We’ve opened up our chat room for tonight’s Hollywood festivities. Won’t you join us?
Jeff Giles
2 Min Read
When is a cup of coffee more than just a cheap, quick pick-me-up? Pretty much always, if you’re the type of person who pays attention to where his food comes…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is a wonderful book, and one of a few novels that I read three or four times as a kid. It was something of a…