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…
Scott Malchus
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Someone needs to inform this new generation of filmmakers working with higher quality film and those using digital cameras that their blood is looking like strawberry syrup. Nothing takes the…
David Medsker
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What’s shakin, Stevens? I’ve been taking rapping lessons from Andy Samberg lately. Bloopy bloop blurp blah blah dookie doo… Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them…
Dw. Dunphy
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It wasn’t their best album. It wasn’t even much like what people consider their best album. Yet the mighty Canadian power trio Rush found themselves on Atlantic Records with a…
Matchup Monkey
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I’ve been meaning to use this space to introduce our readers to music they might never have heard of, so right here on the heels of 100 songs you’ve definitely…
Robert Cass
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The Associated Press reported last Tuesday that the bicycles of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were stolen from inside the Carter Center in Atlanta earlier this…
Kelly Stitzel
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When I wrote about Just One of the Guys (1985) last year, I mentioned my love for actor Clayton Rohner. A lovely commenter named Jill agreed with me, recommending that…
Popdose Staff
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Rotten Tomatoes has announced the winners of the 10th annual Tomatometer Awards, celebrating the best-reviewed films of 2008; Bullz-Eye inducts five more comedy legends into its Stand-Up Comics’ Hall of…
Robert Cass
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It’s taken me a few weeks to find my way back to Bootleg City — I made an unscheduled stop in Layoff Land, an increasingly popular destination these days —…
Jack Feerick
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I will not cop to charges of snobbery; I find my pop-culture thrills wherever I can. I freely admit, though, that I’m selective. Any consumer of media has to be,…
Jeff Giles
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Snoop Dogg feat. Sly Stone – Dr. King Remember from Web Release (2009) Jessie Kilguss – A Little Place Behind My Eyes from Nocturnal Drifter (2008) Illinois – Are You…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to CHART ATTACK!, all new for 2009! This year we’ll be doing much like we’ve done in the past: ripping apart Billboard Top 10 charts for years ranging…
Scott Malchus
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This here is my third attempt at writing a review of Alan Cumming’s new film, Ghost Writer, which recently appeared on DVD shelves and Internet movie stores. It’s my third…
Jeff Giles
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Howdy, folks! Like Jim Anchower, I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but now that Popdose is a whole year old, I figured now would…
Dw. Dunphy
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The Alan Parsons Project is a mess. I’ll explain. First, the band name is a freak of necessity. Manager Eric Woolfson and producer Alan Parsons worked on a project based…
Rob Smith
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Bands like Rush and AC/DC wear as a badge of honor the fact that they’ve never written or performed a power ballad. I love them both, but they’re pussies. The…
John C. Hughes
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Sometimes I can forgive a band for anything if I love them enough.Á‚ Even being featured in a Pringles ad or an Adam Sandler film. Oxford, England’s Candyskins were never…
Jon Cummings
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Sometime in the early afternoon next Tuesday — after Barack Obama takes the oath of office, and before the new President and First Lady take the traditional stroll up Pennsylvania…
Scott Malchus
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Last year our house was overrun by witches.Á‚ You’d think that in the 21st Century there would be some kind of way to control witch infestation, but there was no…
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…
Lance Berry
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Appaloosa (2008, New Line) purchase this DVD (Amazon) Even with a DVD release, New Line Cinema pays as little respect to Ed Harris’ brilliant sophomore directorial piece Appaloosa as they…