Curry Cuts’ third concept compilation ups its game to everything-or-nothing heights.
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The year is young, and even though Emperor Cheat-o just took office, the Women’s March around the world gave us plenty of hope to cling to. Besides relentless advocacy, another way to…
Year end album round-ups are no longer a consensus of the nation’s listening experience. We live in a hyper fragmented world — a total niche fest. I’ve read about 50…
Greetings, children of the night! As your Halloween party draws nigh, our senses-shattering mixtape series is resurrected to wreak havoc on your unsuspecting ears — all ten audio collages from…
Rob Smith explores Jackson Browne’s three finest albums in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
Cait Brennan has an amazing story. One of conquering incredible odds of gender identity, disease, abuse and homelessness, getting her shit together, rising up, becoming a stellar live performer and…
Give 50 music writers a forum to tout their top 50 albums of the year and you’ll probably see 45 or so unique bands and albums on every person’s list. You’ll immediately…
There are (as has often been observed) two kinds of people in this world. What those two kinds are — well, that’s a matter of personal interpretation. Myself, I tend…
Saddle up for Criterion Collection Blu-rays including The Black Stallion>.
A new compilation from Omnivore shines a light on an unjustly forgotten soul singer
Popdose Staffers Robert Ross, Ken Shane, and Dw Dunphy; and syndicated D.J. Dave “the Rave” Kapulsky take a look at the genius behind The Left Banke, who passed away mid-March 2015.
Most year-end “Best of” lists are about wrapping up the year in a tidy bow and moving on, this list celebrates amazing albums that deserve new fans, continued spins and deeper listening…
Rob Smith explores some fine 2014 vinyl releases.
For all the cries of Joe Jackson’s “forsaking” pop, 1994’s “Night Music” says otherwise.
Exhilarating. Emotional. Exhausting. The 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
Rob Smith declares his love of Air Supply in his new “Vinyl Diaries” column.
There hasn’t been much to get excited about at the record store this year, until now. On Tuesday, January 21, three of the best full throttle rock records of the…
One Popdoser’s personal best-of playlist.
Win a copy of the John Mellencamp 19-CD Box Set, “1978-2012”
Comedy is serious business, which probably explains why these 7 dramatic actors are so good at it.
We’re well into the home stretch of Disc Six now, and I hope you’re all rested up — because this week, we’re BRINGIN’ THE PAIN. #11 Mr. Mister, ”Kyrie” (1985)…
Rob Smith ruminates on high school, time, energy, and U2.
Taken together Chicago’s catalog is fascinating, frustrating, brilliant and awful all at once. Read on and judge for yourself.
Here are a few names you may not recall, fronting bands you cannot escape from.
The Hellgoat finds his third perfect record of 2013, in the most unlikeliest of places – AOR!
There are two kinds of people in this world: those that say Phil Collins is a doughy, ineffectual frontman who ruined the prog-rock outfit Genesis (and then his own concurrent…
In which we finally get to the stuff that doesn’t make us cringe…
A fond look back at some of the many pop culture highlights from the 2012 that was.