Gamblor had a quiet week last week, going 2-2 for a small loss of $31. The computer, like many bettors, anticipated that Arizona would put up a much bigger fight…
Jason Hare
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Thirty-one years ago this week, Michael McDonald and some other dudes released one of the greatest songs ever written. Happy birthday, “What a Fool Believes”!
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
I conclude my look at the band Big Daddy with their last album of all new performances, 1992’s Sgt. Pepper’s. Here they took on the awesome challenge of recording every…
Ben Wiser
1 Min Read
Well met, knaves, rogues, and scoundrels. I’ve been a fan of the Chicago band Pelican since I first heard Australasia on a late-night drive about six or seven years ago. …
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
This week, Bottom Feeders comes close to finishing off the letter S, but is foiled by the many, many minor ’80s hits of Survivor.
J.A. Bartlett
1 Min Read
January 20, 1988, is a Wednesday. In Arizona, a committee of the State House of Representatives continues hearings into whether Governor Evan Mecham should be impeached. Mecham is under indictment…
Ken Shane
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If you have been reading my ramblings here on Popdose, you know that I like a lot of music, and a lot of different musical styles. There are some genres…
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
In 1978, a band I was working with was recording an album at A & R Studios in New York City. In the studio was the keyboard called a Mellotron….
Ann Logue
3 Min Read
Americans like to stress about our current account deficit. Even if they do not know the terms of the amounts, they worry about the fact that we export much less…
Jason Miller
1 Min Read
I love when you get to the moment of clarity with a great rock album. The moment when, after spending some quality time with it, the album finally speaks to…
Robin Monica Alexander
1 Min Read
This is where the party ends, ’cause we can’t stand here listening to They Might Be Giants’ Flood turning 20 years old. Twenty! Where has the time gone? And why does someone keep moving my chair?
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
In part one of the Popdose Guide to Prince we took a look at the start of his career up through Graffiti Bridge in 1990. Tons of good music and…
Ted Asregadoo
4 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Last year, the Popdose staffers compiled their favorite songs of all time. We were asked to submit 100 songs that we absolutely love, and I…
Bob Cashill
3 Min Read
By the early 80s Robert Altman was at an impasse in Hollywood. The success of MASH (1970) and Nashville (1975) was mitigated by numerous critical and/or financial flops, including Quintet…
Robert Cass
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On the morning of January 11, numerous media outlets reported that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich had proclaimed to Esquire magazine that he’s “blacker than Barack Obama” in its February…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
Rob Smith
4 Min Read
Rob Smith explores the great Queen ballad “Sail Away Sweet Sister” in the latest installment of Popdose’s Death by Power Ballad.
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
The first 13 episodes of Fox’s new hit musical series, Glee, released here in a 4 DVD set, are an entertaining, yet wildly inconsistent group of episodes that sees the…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
More than anything else, A Nod Is as Good as a Wink … to a Blind Horse is an album that reminds us. It reminds us of the great songwriter,…
Annie Zaleski
1 Min Read
Last week in Bootleg City, it was discovered that Mayor Cass had gone missing after what appeared to be a New Year’s Eve celebration in his office. The only clue…
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton return for more irreverent conversation on music, movies and Michael McDonald — all in this very special bonus episode of the Popdose Podcast!
Bob Cashill
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Over the holidays I read Robert Sellers’ Hellraisers, whose subtitle, ”The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, and Oliver Reed” pretty much tells you what…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
All rise. The terms 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…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
Gamblor finally scored a big victory against Green Bay last week and had an incredible week overall, going 3-1 with a truly amazing weighted win percentage of 97.0%. Sadly, its…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
It was the middle of the night in the middle of August. I was lying in my bed in the dark while imaginary ironworkers slammed steel hammers against my chest…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Thanks for sticking with me after the first half of this monstrous column wrapping up our series on Ayn Rand and her overlong orgy of Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged. I realize…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
”We do not tell — we show.” So says the mentor of Atlas Shrugged‘s three key ”strikers,” philosopher Hugh Akston … on page 735 of a 1,168-page novel, in a…
Jeff Johnson
1 Min Read
This week’s Revival House is going to be a little different; in the TV world it would be called a “very special episode.” I was thinking how funny it is…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
You’ve watched the news footage, seen the photos and read the news tweets; you’ve heard the screams and pleas and shook your head at the ludicrous comments by idiots. Whenever…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Proving “twee” isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, Yael Meyer‘s Heartbeat finds her gossamer voice clinging like drops of honey to impossibly fine strands of acoustic guitar, ukulele, melodica, piano,…