DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE With the new year (and a new decade) starting in just a few days, I wanted to close out this year by looking forward to…
Ken Shane
4 Min Read
The Austin Rehearsal Complex (ARC) opened on March 1, 1990, using funds provided by the city’s arts council to get started. A few months later, in August of that year,…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
Back in the mid- to late ’80s, before Bob Marley, David Byrne, and I had even met the eventual mayor of Bootleg City, otherwise known as Robert “The Eventual Mayor of Bootleg…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
When it became apparent that Christmas Day would be falling on a Friday this year, it only seemed appropriate to come up with a mixtape that went a little bit…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
6 Min Read
Oh, don’t look so surprised — you knew this Mellowmas would end up with Bob Dylan croaking under a Santa hat, didn’t you?
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
I have to admit, I’m a bit conflicted this holiday season. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been going through the motions — spending lots of time at home with my…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
During the 1980s, the old guard prog bands had two choices – adapt or die. Some did to great success (Yes, Genesis) while others couldn’t go all the way and…
Dave Lifton
1 Min Read
Is a tornado capable of looking for love in all the wrong places? Dave Lifton finds out when he analyzes his favorite song of 2009, Neko Case’s “This Tornado Loves You” in his latest Infinite Play column.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
2 Min Read
Christmas is a time for jolly old fat men, but this is ridiculous. Who let Rush Limbaugh in here?
Zack Dennis
8 Min Read
The computer had a nice week last week, going 9-6-1 against the spread. Well, it was almost nice. If I hadn’t dropped $340 on Pittsburgh, I’d have been up $40. …
Bob Cashill
7 Min Read
In a recessionary year most of the holiday releases have slimmed-down grab bag budgets, but two come in outsized, wrapped-and-ribboned boxes. Sherlock Holmes would seem to be destined for Dad,…
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
This week I have a special holiday treat for you. It’s the 1975 album ”How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, performed by Zero Mostel. Even though Karloff’s version of The Grinch…
Pete Chianca
1 Min Read
Now, don’t get the wrong idea: This is not a ”best of” list — that would indicate that I listened to every album released and compared them, which sounds like…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Wasn’t I just talking about how impossibly prolific Bob Schneider is? Yes, I was, dammit — and here he is to prove it again, releasing the eight-song Christmastime just a…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
It’s another week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we take a look at the ass end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, i.e. songs that…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
3 Min Read
Who’s the only artist that’s enough of a badass to release a mostly repackaged Christmas collection and still make it work? McD mo B there, bitches!
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Alicia Keys has shed her ’70s soul inspired roots for more modern influences, but does it work? Michael Parr has the review.
Michael Fortes
3 Min Read
Michael Fortes brings the Parlour to Parlour journey back home to the Bay Area for a visit with Steve Taylor, a piano-toting blue-eyed soul busker from Oakland.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
If you play fantasy sports, you know the sports world is filled with talented players who, for whatever reason, never live up to their immense potential — they have so…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
4 Min Read
This Mellowmas, we’ve heard bluegrass, tween pop, and Lemmy, but precious little in the way of old-fashioned Mellow Gold — until now. It’s Dennis DeYoung!
Lance Berry
1 Min Read
The highly anticipated film District 9 is opening today, all set to make a killing at the box office (and it certainly deserves the reward. It’s a well-crafted film, both…
Popdose Staff
15 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE By now, you’re thoroughly drenched in holiday music – with the vast majority of the songs celebrating Christmas. So why bother with yet another holiday-themed…
Bob Cashill
5 Min Read
“The best seasonal film of all time. I wish I had kids. I’d make them watch it every year and if they didn’t like it, they’d be punished.” –John Waters…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Alicia Keys, “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” from The Element of Freedom I find her albums awfully inconsistent, but Alicia Keys is a fine singles artist; other R&B performers…
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
It is the last Cover Me of the year. Do you have what it takes to solve the puzzle and win?
Rob Smith
3 Min Read
Ex-Kansas vocalist John Elefante offers his cover of “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and Popdose’s Death by Power Ballad is there to praise it, in the spirit of the holidays.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
2 Min Read
What, pray tell, is a Northern Light Orchestra, and how do they “Celebrate Christmas”? Trust us, you don’t want to know.
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
“It’s not Tommy, is it?” —Loudon Wainwright III, on his son’s first opera, Prima Donna, from the Sundance Channel documentary Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna Whether you’re an ardent fan of…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Who’s the squeakiest-cleanest little twerp ever to darken our Mellowmas door? Yes, folks, that’s right — it’s time for David Archuleta!
Ken Shane
2 Min Read
There had never been anything quite like them. They weren’t the cute mop-tops or acid-fueled freaks that had risen to fame in recent years. The members of Blood, Sweat &…