Work or play. Family or friends. Protein or carbohydrates. Life is about seeking balance. Lindsey Buckingham has been seeking balance too. In his case, the challenge is to balance his…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
3rd Rail has been around for about 10 years and, according to their MySpace page, were named “Best Unsigned Band in California” at the California Music Awards. Having been in…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Everyone seemed to have so much fun jumping into the wayback machine with Nicolette Larson — and really, who wouldn’t want to jump into a wayback machine with Nicolette Larson?…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
It’s week 27 of Bottom Feeders and you know what that means. What? You don’t know what that means? Actually, neither do I. But what I do know is that…
Jeff Giles
2 Min Read
Or, the Whale – Light Poles and Pines (self-released, 2007) purchase this album (CD Baby) I give all the credit in the world to this band’s publicist. Instead of holding…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Hey, everyone! Our good buddy Eric Grubbs of Theme Park Experience has finally reached the end of years of hard work on his book, POST: A Look at the Influence…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
Recently I’ve been gnawing away at Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited, a series of ruminations on the state of modern society (modern as in 1958, the year the book…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
Close of the market, 9/29/08 My political/economic socialization came during the heady days of free market zealotry.Á‚ 1984 was a year when it seemed like many of my friends —…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Y’know, if you name your kid Herbert or Poindexter, you’re just setting that child up for a lifetime of teasing and ridicule.Á‚ And if you name your band Kajagoogoo, well,…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Man your battlestations, it’s time for another quiz. No clue for this week’s puzzle, as you guys are far too good at this already. Below are magnified fragments of 25…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE This weekend I was rummaging through my DVDs looking for a particular movie, and kept happening upon some music-related DVDs that I thought would make…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
David Bowie – “Space Oddity” Peter Schilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)” DwDunphy: It almost seems unfair that Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom” should go up against David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”…
Robert Cass
2 Min Read
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Todd Rundgren’s last two albums have been released in election years. But Todd is Godd, after all, so I have to assume there’s some…
Will Harris
1 Min Read
Pity the publicist who offers up an exaggerated sense of their artist’s sound. I’ve been offering up some semblance of music criticism since I was a senior in high school…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
This past Sunday, in a coordinated effort to flout a federal law banning political endorsements from the pulpit, 33 evangelical and fundamentalist pastors in 22 states used their sermons either…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
Each year when a stalwart of the entertainment industry makes his or her final curtain call, I find myself wishing I’d paid closer attention to their work and inevitably fill…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Archies: The Archies Christmas Album featuring Betty & Veronica (Fuel) I took a lot of shit a couple of Fridays ago for saying some negative things about the Archies’…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Jason Reeves – The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (And Other Frightening Tales) purchase this album (Amazon) Think The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (and Other Frightening Tales) is a long title?…
Molly Marinik
2 Min Read
BOTTOM LINE: It’s not the best of musicals, it’s not the worst of musicals. I don’t want to compare A Tale of Two Cities to Les Miserables because ATOTC, in…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
I had a hard time deciding what soundtrack to offer you this week, and went through about five different ideas before time ran out and I chose Pump Up the…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
Ted Asregadoo This is the first time Barack Obama and John McCain have faced each other as competitors rather than Senate colleagues, and it’s clear that the chumminess of that…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
M. Ward – Outta My Head from Transfiguration of Vincent (2003) 10cc – Sand In My Face from The Complete UK Recordings (2004) Zoot Sims – Someone To Watch Over…
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
1 Min Read
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/wmB3vGKx1kE” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
Scraps
1 Min Read
Hey everybody, welcome to the thirty-first scalp-scalding week of Name That Tune at Popdose. In these troubled times, a few simple rules can be a great comfort: The Rules: MAXIMUM…
The Chartburn Panel
1 Min Read
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/jZ5zXXUJsyc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Metallica, “The Day That Never Comes” (2008) (download) Robert Cass: It’s time for me to come clean with all of you —…
Bob Cashill
1 Min Read
Warning: this week”™s column is going to get ugly, and fast. We start with Choke, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk”™s novel, which is also a love letter to its star,…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) It’s become awfully fashionable to hate on his movies all of a sudden, but personally, I still regard the words “a Judd…
Dw. Dunphy
2 Min Read
We’ve been fairly professional about this up ’til now. However, after this week, my objectivity is gone. Hitch up your sports cup, rant fans: here I go. President George W….
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
Once again John McCain has chosen chaos over constancy as his presidential campaign “¦ Oops, I forgot: McCain currently doesn’t have a presidential campaign. It’s been “suspended,” even as he…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Note from John: My Phagz on 45 partner (not THAT way!) Matty has been on my jock non-stop, begging me to feature today’s artist on Lost in the ’90s since…