Hidelyho, Popdoserinos! Ready for another slam diddly doodly bangerrific quiz? Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure…
Jon Cummings
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Editor’s note: What follows is no less than the third column that Popdose writer Jon Cummings has attempted to wring out of a single interview last fall with former Letters…
Scott Malchus and Shaun Hamid
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Hey everyone, Shaun is back!Á‚ Á‚ His inauguration celebration hangover has just worn off and he’s ready for another year of looking at television with me.Á‚ This week we review a…
Mojo Flucke
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In Red Sox lore, the facts state that 10,454 fans–a pathetic number–attended Ted Williams’ last game in 1960, when he grew his legend to Mount Rushmore proportions by slamming a…
Scott Malchus
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Steve Coogan’s popularity in the United States is continuing to grow as he appears in acclaimed films such as Hamlet 2 and Tropic Thunder, not to mention his supporting role…
Scott Malchus
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City of Ember, the most recent film from Walden Media, starts on a bit of a downer. In a post-apocalyptic era, a city has been built deep in the earth’s…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: A traditional-feeling musical with incredible choreography and a kick-ass cast. It’s a first-rate production guaranteed to make you happy (if musicals are your sort of thing). If the…
Kelly Stitzel
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Robert Downey Jr. received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor this week for his role in Tropic Thunder. I haven’t seen it yet (though it is next in my…
Arend Anton
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It’s nearly impossible to watch a summer movie these days without sitting through camera movements that make you wish you’d brought Dramamine.Á‚ There is a reason that use of these…
Robert Cass
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Talking Heads spent less time talking, more time singing and playing, so in that spirit I’m going to keep my introduction brief this week. Below you’ll find disc two of…
Jack Feerick
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What’s weird about the discourse surrounding popular culture is how quickly it becomes self-reflexive. That is, it becomes possible to engage in the discussion as an end in itself, without…
Jeff Giles
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Lee Feldman – Monkeys from The Man in a Jupiter Hat (2000) Gang Starr – Precisely The Right Rhymes from Step in the Arena (1991) Django Reinhardt – Sweet Georgia…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/bo2Aypi0R2c” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Blue Oyster Cult, “Burnin’ for You” (1981) Mike: One of exactly two Blue Oyster Cult songs I’m familiar with (I’m sure we…
Bob Cashill
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There was a time, not too long ago, that when the Oscar nominations were announced, I’d seen all the nominated films. Indeed, I’d seen all the significant movies of the…
Popdose Staff
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Welcome back, Oscar fans. We’ll be unveiling our official Popdose ballot on March 4, just a few days before the actual event, but if you’re really eager to make your…
Dw. Dunphy
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The “My Album / Your Album” dynamic. Sounds like a really odd phrase, but you’ve experienced it: You are suddenly enthralled by this artist or band, you’ve listened to their…
Jon Cummings
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“Tomorrow is some shit, people,” Adam Yauch declared matter-of-factly Monday night, after searching for an appropriate way to close out the Beastie Boys’ fearsome inaugural-eve Rock the Vote gig in…
John C. Hughes
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Have I mentioned that the internet is a pretty cool place lately?Á‚ No?Á‚ Okay, Imma mention it now! I mean, first there’s all the porn.Á‚ Granted, some it can be…
Popdose Staff
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The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, film fans, and since half the staff is already discussing them (and griping about them), we thought we’d give you some space…
Scott Malchus
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“What are you doin’?” Bob asked as he entered my dorm room. It was December 1989. I had just returned from acing the final exam of an incredibly difficult English…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Tony Redman
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This week’s selections are from an album called Rerun Rock. The concept for this album is this: How would classic TV theme songs sound if they were performed by famous…
Ben Wiser
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Hey, you witches and warlocks. I’m taking a break this week from your usual boomerang testing to share with you a dark and doomy treat. It’s Black Sabbath, live on…
David Medsker
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Rockwell once said he felt like somebody was watching him. Odds are, it was Animotion. Have you taken a close look at the lyrics to “Obsession” lately? This gives “Every…
Dave Steed
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Hey! It’s Wednesday, so let’s continue taking a look at the letter G and the ass end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Andy Gibb and Victoria Principal “All I…
Zack Dennis
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Buddy Revel, the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of a bully in Three O’Clock High (1987), isn’t actually a bully. Bullying is a tool used to establish or enforce social dominance. And…
Ted Asregadoo
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Even if Barack Obama was just another in the long line of white males who have been elected to the presidency, this would still be an historic moment in the…
John C. Hughes
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This one’s been a long time coming … and it’s not even as complete as I’d like it to be.Á‚ Let me explain… When I first started Lost in the…
Arend Anton
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Every weekend, I sit with my laptop sifting through the remnants of the week gone by.Á‚ This is normally scramble time, as I frantically attempt to come up with enough…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Howdy to all the ‘Merican people! George W. Bush here.Á‚ Well, I’m almost outta here, and I’m not one for mushy speechifying, so I’ve had…