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
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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
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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
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Scraps
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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
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[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…
Mojo Flucke
1 Min Read
Seeing the nominees for this year’s Rock Hall class, I’m starting to feel like the writers who, year after year, banged on the “Get Art Monk into the Pro Football…
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…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine – Ask a Ninja Presents: The Ninja Handbook (This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon) purchase this book (Amazon) I suppose I should begin…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Just over a month ago, I received an out-of-the-blue e-mail from friendly fellow named Ryan, who works for a word-of-mouth marketing site called BuzzParadise. Ryan invited me to try out…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Johnny Cash feat. Snoop Dogg, “I Walk the Line (remix)” (download) Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like. No, we don’t know how — or why — it happened. Discuss.
Ben Wiser
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I. Report from the Land of the Dead It has a been a busy time in Deadland. Most notably, tickets went on sale this past weekend for the Deadheads For…
Matthew Bolin
1 Min Read
1968’s The Beatles, aka “The White Album,” is the Beatles at their most frightening: the sound of drugs, of implosion, of tension and competition. Added to that are the numerous…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Yep, another Duran Duran post from Popdose’s resident DD fanboy (or Durannie, as we were once called). Between this, my White Label post on “Hold Back the Rain,” and John…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
One of the things I just love doing that doesn’t happen much anymore is laying on the couch, in the dark, listening to an album. As I get older, I’m…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Those are our options in dealing with this financial mess — or so it seems if you’ve been following events since the…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
What’s up, every bizzle? It’s Jizzle-ohn in the hizzouse with another Lost in the Izzle. Before you grab the flaming torches and pitchforks, let me just say that’s my li’l…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Are these quizzes still bringing on the heartbreak, or is this the time you show that you’re for real? Or did I just give you a clue to one of…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE This mix all started with an article on Billboard.com that I sent to Jason Hare. It was about how the Who’s album of cover tunes…
Popdose Staff
1 Min Read
Sublime – “5446 and Ball and Chain” Social Distortion – “Ball and Chain” — n n {democracy:14} — Last week, The Who surrendered to Cheap Trick, losing by a 2:1…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
I’ll start with the negative: seeing a Vampire Weekend show made me feel old. And that’s really the only thing I found disappointing about the show.Á‚ I’m not one to…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Among the many types of radio star that video killed were what I like to call the Faceless Narcissists — those acts of the pre-MTV era who felt compelled to…
Matthew Ryan
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Yesterday as I sat in traffic, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw one of those couples. One of those couples that can scare you. Their car was…