Have you ever wished the holidays weren’t so…you know…cheerful? Boy, has Sting got an album for you!
Ken Shane
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TV viewers who enjoy good conversation about, and performance of music will be pleased to know that Elvis Costello’s acclaimed series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with … will be returning to…
Michael Parr
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Welcome to this week’s Cover Me! Hi, I’m Drew Carey, uh, I mean Michael Parr, and I’ll be taking over from your previous host, David Medsker. While I’m not going…
Jon Cummings
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A homework pass to the first commenter who can identify what inspired this column’s headline — without resorting to the Google (honor system!) — and can tell us why The…
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
You blame it on Facebook. Had you not bowed to the entreaties of your more connected co-workers, you wouldn’t have seen her name, read her profile, or seen she now…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
What’s worse than a Hilary Duff Christmas song? Find out in today’s senses-shattering chapter of the holiday you love to hate!
Scott Malchus
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Premiering tonight on TNT is the new dramedy series, Men of a Certain Age, which comes from Emmy winners Ray Romano and Mike Royce, one of the executive producers and…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
As a lover of vocal groups from the moment that my dad handed me my first Beach Boys album, I fell in love with the “California Sound” very early. I…
Matt Wardlaw
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While I wasn’t a big comic book reader growing up (GI Joe, Archie, etc), I did discover and enjoy my share of newspaper comics. My grandfather was a retired newspaper…
Ed Murray
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In 2007, composer, arranger and performer Richard Niles wrote, produced and hosted a three-part radio series for the BBC titled ”Pat Metheny — Bright Size Life.” The in-depth discussions Niles…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Rob Halford’s Christmas album has flown in on sad wings of vengeance, and you might need some painkiller after you ram it down.
Molly Marinik
1 Min Read
BOTTOM LINE: It’s like watching two guys with multiple personality disorder on uppers. Know who the two hardest-working men in show business are? They have to be Robert Stanton and…
Ken Shane
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The Cars seldom seem to get enough credit for being a fine band. That of course is because they had the temerity to be too successful, launching hit single after…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Is this the En Vogue lineup that recorded today’s track? We have no idea — and judging from the song, we’re guessing En Vogue has no idea either.
Matthew Boles
1 Min Read
OK, I have to tell you a story. The other day I was sleeping off my annual four-day Thanksgiving bender when my phone rang at the crack of midnight. It…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
WARNING: Some material on this week’s Mixtape NSFW What’s the matter, cap’n? Did Thanksgiving’s close quarters with the rest of the family stress you out? You brought up politics again,…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
This will serve, for the time being anyway, as my last Name That Tune. And worse, I have yet to find a successor, but I assure you the game will…
Jason Hare
2 Min Read
Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the final CHART ATTACK! of 2009! In case you haven’t noticed, Popdose has been pretty much taken over by horrible, horrible holiday music, and…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Yes, the weather outside is frightful — but Jeffrey Osborne is here to prove that keeping warm isn’t always a good thing.
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
On a warm evening at the end of June of 1981, the dimly lit stage at the Los Angeles Forum illuminated to reveal a musical band of brothers, each armed…
Matthew Bolin
1 Min Read
One minute, twenty-two seconds. That’s how long Rod Stewart’s new album, Soulbook, actually gave me some hope that it might be something more than the latest in a series of…
Dw. Dunphy
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It is solely through bias that I consider Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol the best version of Charles Dickens’ oft-interpreted story of a miser who, through the efforts of the supernatural,…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Objectivism is back, baby! Don’t take my word for it — just check out this cover of the libertarian monthly Reason, which offers up a freaky old Audrey Hepburn-meets-the-wicked-witch photo…
Dave Lifton
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Since you’re all so wrapped up in Mellowmas right now, I thought it would be a good time to remind you all that music can, in fact, be a beautiful…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
We gathered around the tree hanging ornaments on its branches while baby Jacob looked on and Christmas music played over the stereo. It was our first Christmas in our new…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Neil Diamond hates the holidays almost as much as he hates you, and Jason Hare and Jeff Giles have found the audio proof.
Zack Dennis
19 Min Read
UPDATE: The line in the Arizona game finally got posted – the Vikings are favorites by 3 points. Whisenhunt says that who’s starting at quarterback will be a game-time decision,…
Mojo Flucke
1 Min Read
Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker…
Ken Shane
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Elvis Presley died in 1977, but that doesn’t seem to have slowed him down very much. In fact, to celebrate what would have been his 75th birthday on January 8,…
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
”Now here’s something we hope you’ll really like…” There have been a number of children’s records based on cartoons. This removes the visuals that we’re used to, leaving only the…