In 1954, before Mister Rogers brought his Neighborhood to national television, he was a part of a local show in Pittsburgh called The Children’s Corner. A woman named Josie Carey…
Ben Wiser
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Relix editor Toni Brown discusses her long history with the Grateful Dead — as well as her own musical career — in an interview with Ben Wiser.
Ken Shane
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Don Was (born Don Fagenson) and David Was (born David Weiss) grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and met in junior high school in the 1960s. It was a…
Mike Heyliger
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On the back of the booklet in Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here CD is a message. The message reads as follows: “There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of…
Dave Steed
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We’re smack dab in the middle of the letter T in this week’s Bottom Feeders, and you know what that means: You can New Jack Swing on Dave Steed’s nuts.
Scott Malchus
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FlashForward began with a kick ass premise: On a regular day the entire world’s population simultaneously blacked out for 137 seconds. Those people who didn’t die in a car crash…
Dw. Dunphy
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The cover of Robin Aigner’s Bandito says a lot about what’s inside, and that boils down to a nice sense of ambiguity. At first, the imagery of a rabbit preparing…
Popdose Staff
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The Popdose staff dawdles away a long, cold winter by looking back at its formative musical experiences. Tell us yours!
Jeff Giles
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Jason Ringenberg might have a burgeoning career as the kids’ music cowpoke known as Farmer Jason, but fortunately for us all, he hasn’t forgotten his roots — which means, oh…
Jeff Giles
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Great Big Sea’s SÁ©an McCann steps out on his own this week with Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes, a solo collection whose title suggests the coolest kids’ album ever made, but…
Pete Chianca
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I don’t know about everybody else, but I for one couldn’t be happier about the return of the ’70s flourish. You know, the urgent strings, the unnecessary but wholly welcome…
Ken Shane
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Ok, this is tough stuff. The tenth studio album from San Francisco’s the Brian Jonestown Massacre is a swirling psychedelic phantasmagoria. The band, best known to most people via their…
Bob Cashill
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The documentarian who co-produced The War Room enters the battlefield of fashion with Vogue editor Anna (“Nuclear”) Wintour in The September Issue, out on DVD.
David Allen Jones
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In which I take the opportunity to point out various releases of the graphic narrative-type variety that I deem noteworthy for this or that reason, some of which may even…
Scott Malchus
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Robert De Niro stars in Everybody’s Fine, a remake of a 1990 Italian film starring Marcello Mastroianni. You can feel the sentimental influence from the earlier film all over this…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Quick! Without looking at the list of artists below, what do you think of when you think of the ’70s? Did you think of disco? …
Jeff Giles
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Jeff Giles follows a recommendation from a trusted friend, and ends up getting excited about the future of music all over again.
Will Harris
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If there’s one thing you need to take into consideration when reviewing a release from Rhino Handmade, it’s this: don’t let yourself be overwhelmed with the presentation. This is a…
Jon Cummings
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A favorite trope among the British Invasion bands of the ’60s was the notion that they took the R&B, country and early rock music that America had exported during the…
Rob Smith
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Much as he might want to, “Rob Smith Can’t Say No” to Billy Joel’s heavy metal (!) band Attila, only at Popdose.com!
Ken Shane
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You know, between Yeasayer’s new album Odd Blood, and Shout Out Louds new one, Work(Merge Records), I may finally be taking a liking to this new-fangled music. Both bands have…
Dw. Dunphy
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So, are there any Southland fans still reading Popdose? Excellent! This giveaway is especially for you. A lucky reader will win the brand-new, uncensored Season One set courtesy of Warner…
Michael Burke
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Joe Satriani discusses his career, his writing methods, and the future of Chickenfoot in Michael Burke’s latest Popdose Interview.
Robert Cass
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Fellow citizens of Bootleg City, I have something to confess — I am not a fellow citizen. I’m the mayor. I’m up here, and you’re down there. That’s why certain…
Scott Malchus
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Women in Trouble is yet another L.A. ensemble movie in which various strangers intersect on one day and all lives are altered in some way. This film is unique in…
Jack Feerick
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Pity poor Steven Seagal, the Forgotten Man of action movies. His fellow redneck / kung-fu badass Chuck Norris becomes popcult meme thanks to ”facts” like Lightning never strikes in the…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel’s special Oscar-themed columns continue with a look at 1997’s race for the Best Original Song trophy.
Jeff Giles
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When you think of hip-hop, you almost certainly don’t hear the swells of an orchestra in your head — and when you think of turntables, your mind probably leads you…
Scott Malchus
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purchase from Amazon: DVD Last year Shout! Factory released a fantastic box set of the first season of thirtysomething, the influential drama series that ran on ABC from fall 1987…
Ted Asregadoo
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If there was ever a genre of music that I really can’t stand, it’s country music. That being said, I have to say that the music gods must have a…