With the newly Sony-minted Essential Janis Ian collection on the shelves and a truly impressive body of work behind her, Janis Ian had plenty to discuss with Jon Cummings in their Popdose Interview.
Dw. Dunphy
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Jim O’Rourke is either a master provocateur or just plain infuriating; it all depends on how you feel about his career as a whole. If you liked his experimental acoustic…
Scott Malchus
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Brothers and Sisters: The Complete Third Season (2009, ABC/Buena Vista) purchase from Amazon: DVD ABC’s durable drama Brothers and Sisters hit some road bumps in its third season. After a…
Popdose Staff
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It’s time once again for MTV to roll out the red carpet and congratulate the few artists who were able to penetrate its wall of reality programming and score what passes for a video hit!
Molly Marinik
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How does a family cope when one of them is about to die? Molly Marinik explores their absurdly inappropriate methods in her review of the off-off-Broadway play The Bereaved.
Zack Dennis
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Welcome, fans of the Vampire Diaries!Á‚ In episode 3, the closing moments of the show featured a cover of the classic New Order songÁ‚ “Temptation,” as envisioned by Moby and…
Dw. Dunphy
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A famous occurrence found its way into Woody Allen’s film Manhattan. The director has just explained all the artistic allusion and metaphor in his latest work, pouring over details and…
Kelly Stitzel
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Hey, do you see that? No, not that plastic bag fluttering in the breeze, dummy — Kelly Stitzel’s latest Soundtrack Saturday!
Ann Logue
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In August of 1969, my grandparents took their younger children to New York City on vacation, where they saw the sights and met with their dazzling nephew Bob Cessna, an…
Robert Cass
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Yesterday was a special day in Bootleg City. Every September 10 — or “One After 909,” as some folks call it — we celebrate Beatle Day, which kicks off early…
Jeff Giles
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“I’m talkin’ ’bout music, I ain’t talkin’ ’bout rap,” spits Jay-Z in the opening moments of The Blueprint 3‘s leadoff track, “What We Talkin’ About,” and if you didn’t know…
Popdose Staff
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Well, it’s (almost) the end of Beatles Week, and by now, it’s clear that many of you were just as excited about the remasters and video game as we were…
Jack Feerick
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It’s one of the biggest film flops of all time. But Jack Feerick wanted to know — really, how bad can it be?
Jason Hare
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Beatles Week continues with CHART ATTACK!, where Jason Hare looks at ten Beatles covers that hovered around the Billboard Top 10. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and perhaps disturbed!
Rich DeWester
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We can’t very well have a Beatles Week without discussing The Beatles: Rock Band — and that’s where Rich DeWester comes in with his review.
Bob Cashill
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Few genres are as absorbent as film noir. Science fiction (Blade Runner), horror (Seven), and high school movies (Brick) have soaked up the world-weary, hard-boiled attitudes and atmospherics of Double…
Bob Cashill
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Bob Cashill helps bring Beatles Week to its spine-tingling conclusion with a look at the Fab Four at the movies — after they broke up, of course. Give our regards to Broad Street, would you?
Ken Shane
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Generally it’s not my style to ask you to buy an album. I tell you what I think, and then you make up your own mind. That’s the way it…
Jeff Giles
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The coolest thing about 7 Worlds Collide’s The Sun Came Out is also its biggest flaw: Namely, that “group” founder Neil Finn brought the whole damn thing together — all…
Jon Cummings
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The words were spoken in London, casually, almost flippantly, and were directed at an audience that was sure to treat them in the spirit they were intended. It was not…
Ed Murray
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In the short history of ’70s-era punk rock, and the longer, larger arc of rock music in general, the New York Dolls were the crucial link between the Rolling Stones,…
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus has had a copy of the remastered Rubber Soul since last week, and he hasn’t been able to listen to anything else. Read his thoughtful review in this week’s edition of Basement Songs.
Jeff Giles
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So this is it, huh? This is what you guys were freaking out about all summer? I admit, I haven’t seen the supposedly wonderful pilot, and picking up a series…
Ken Shane
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Gqjl2iXg9uI” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Asbury Park’s storied Stone Pony isn’t the same since Live Nation took over. That cuts both ways. On the plus side, an enormous…
Tony Redman
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Well, since we’re in a Beatles state of mind here at Popdose, I wanted to find something relevant to the topic, and here it is. Sorta. This is a group…
Ben Wiser
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“But there was something else tugging at Garcia as 1964 turned into 1965. For one thing, like half of America under the age of 25, Jerry had been seduced by…
Popdose Staff
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9/9/09 is finally here, and to celebrate the occasion, the Popdose staff has, ahem, come together to give you their personal perspectives on the music — yesterday and today.
Lance Berry
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Before we begin, a brief warning to all parents considering taking the wee ones to see Focus Features’ latest, 9. Be certain that whatever kids you’re taking are stout of…
David Medsker
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That sound you just heard was the hearts of a million power pop fans skipping a beat. There probably isn’t anything that happened to Sugarbomb during their brief tenure with…