I’m going to issue you a promise — I promise to never Rickroll you again (in this series). I mean, there’s no way I could top last week’s shenanigans anyway….
Scott Malchus
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Knowing (2009, Summit Entertainment) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray Alex Proyas, the gifted director behind The Crow, I, Robot and the cult classic Dark City, really knows how to…
Robert Cass
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Writer-director M. Brian King’s Night Train is a peculiar film. It’s a modern-day suspense thriller in which blood-splattered corpses pile up quickly, but it explicitly references 20th-century classics like John…
Ken Shane
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In the grand rock and roll tradition of bands who met in art school — in this case Pratt Institute in New York City — along comes stellastar* with their…
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/92wr1UfMN_w” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] It’s been a bad time for NFL quarterbacks. Bernie Kosar, who played for the Browns, Cowboys, and Dolphins, filed for bankruptcy.Á‚ Ryan Leaf,…
Michael Fortes
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Parlour to Parlour begins today with Episode 0. This footage, filmed in San Francisco, CA, during the weekend of November 14-15, 2008, on my grandfather’s old analog Hi8, was “just practice” and not originally intended for the series. But we liked it so much that it deserved a place in the series, even if it was out-of-concept in that it was the band visiting me, rather than the other way around. Hence “Episode 0.”
Steven Rosen
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The interview is set for 2:00 PM. At a quarter “Ëœtil, the black hat, cascading curls, and nose ring saunter through the management office’s front doors. The receptionist raises eyes…
Ted Asregadoo
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I was too young to experience many of the groups and performers featured here when they were in their prime. Sure, I heard the music of Led Zep, Dylan, the…
Ken Shane
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Once upon a time there was a pioneering Americana band from Belleville, Il. called Uncle Tupelo. Two of the founding members of the band were Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar….
David Medsker
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And just like that, I understand why Scraps was putting these together all the way up until the very last minute. Which is why I’m only doing them every other…
Rob Smith
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Our DbPB salute to Jim Peterik continues this week with “Strength Over Time,” by Sunstorm, a collective that’s not quite a band, and yet not quite not a band. Some…
Scott Malchus
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Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete First Season (2009, Shout Factory) Purchase from Amazon. In 1990, the same year NBC attempted to turn Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) into a…
Popdose Staff
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With the first six months of 2009 on the books, the Popdose staff has once again huddled up, made a list of its favorite albums of the year (so far), and laid ’em all out for you (with mp3s!).
Matchup Monkey
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As people eat more meals outside the home, they consume more calories, less fiber, and more fat. Commodity prices have fallen so low that the fast food industry has greatly…
Robert Cass
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Happy Fourth of July, everyone! As the mayor of Bootleg City, it’s my responsibility to give you the best aural fireworks display money can buy, but therein lies the problem…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: Check your theatre pretensions at the door. Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty, and Allison Janney in 9 to 5: The Musical Dolly Parton’s sassy new musical, 9 to…
Kelly Stitzel
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A couple months ago I was browsing around the vinyl section at my local Half-Price Books when I came across a near-mint copy of the soundtrack to Two of a…
Ken Shane
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The first Pete Yorn song I ever heard was “On Your Side,” from his debut album, Musicforthemorningafter (2001), but where I heard it was a bit unconventional — playing over…
Dw. Dunphy
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A-B-C! It’s easy as do-re-mi! Art Brut – Summer Job from Art Brut vs. Satan (2009) Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon from Two Suns (2009) Battles – Atlas…
Jack Feerick
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When you think about it, there’s no earthly reason why movies based on video games should, as a class, be so atrocious. For one thing, the games themselves are largely…
Jason Hare
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Jason Hare takes a look at some of Michael Jackson’s most (and least) memorable tracks to grace the Top 10 on this week’s CHART ATTACK!
Arend Anton
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A controversy erupted recently when critics claimed that two of the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were racist caricatures. What then occurred was the standard Internet back-and-forth over…
Lance Berry
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I’ve been a fan of director Michael Mann (Ali, The Last of the Mohicans) for some years now. One thing I’ve always been able to count on is that no…
Ken Shane
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In the late 1990s, Levon Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer. The radiation treatments reduced his once powerful voice to a mere rasp. Unable to make any money touring or…
John C. Hughes
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I realize I’ve sort of hit upon a theme lately when it comes to LIT70s, but I don’t think it’s fair to limit just the Beach Boys to the Disco…
Ed Murray
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Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, The Poets had a lot of things going for them in the mid-’60s: a unique sound, a cool look (high-necked jackets and ruffled fronted shirts —…
Scott Malchus
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Phoebe in Wonderland (2009, Image) purchase from Amazon: DVD Elle Fanning gives one of the most touching and heart breaking performances you will see this year in writer/director Daniel Barnz’s…
Scott Malchus
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The summer vacation. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times in the Basement Songs, during my childhood, when school let out for the summer, my parents would pack up the…
Bob Cashill
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Most DVD commentaries end with the participants saying goodbye, or “see you next time,” or simply disappearing as the credits roll. “This is a good movie, you can’t take that…
Kelly Stitzel
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In our new series, Kelly Stitzel and the Popdose staff bring you 27 — count ’em! — versions of the great blues-folk song “Stagger Lee.”