For a couple of years, I’ve been trying to convince my daughter to watch this gem, but each time I explained the plot of “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” she’d zone out after the word ”chess.”
After a tumultuous few weeks in which women have spoken up, shouted out, and stood up in the face of a whole new level of adversity, music seems to be…
I’m still laughing that I went from Ellie Goulding to an ’80s hard rock icon with only two songs in between. What hard rock icon, you ask? Check the episode’s…
It wasn’t all too long ago we received and reviewed revered guitar legend Eric “Roscoe” Ambel’s first studio album in a decade (Lakeside) and here we are with an absolute…
O.C. Smith had a long and distinguished career but he is best known for his ’68 hit
In December, a client – a major financial institution – asked me to write a post on ways that someone could save $18,000 in the new year. I have no…
This is a true story, a heartwarming story and one that frankly, I wish had a bigger audience because it was so well executed, performance-wise. A Street Cat Named Bob,…
Veteran podcasters Michael Parr and Zack Stiegler bring their acerbic wit and pop culture knowledge to Popdose in the premier episode of their new podcast, In:Sound.
Dirk Gently has a lot to unpack, but carries the wrong baggage.
Norman, Oklahoma native Travis Linville has been around for twenty years and for all intents and purposes, this latest album – his fifth – Up Ahead could be the magic…
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Christina Rubino’s new music video begins with a quote from Cesar A. Cruz: “Art should comfort the disturbed… and disturb the comfortable.” The video, which accompanies her new…
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for the angry music mix on Spotify.
One of the most significant television events of 2017 is the impending release of the Twin Peaks revival. Fans of the series are waiting to see how the 26 year…
Brit Marling takes us on a trippy ride to the other side.
Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out Wednesday”. It featured odd albums from my…
This is an amazing moment; a new single from one of our greatest songwriters/musicians/singers. A heartbreakingly powerful track and video to go along with it. Popdose is very proud to…
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for the angry music mix on Spotify.
Rob Smith reviews recent music from elder statesmen Ian Hunter and Willie Nelson in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
Let us now enter a world of fantasy and take it way too seriously.
For Australian prog rocker Dan Webb, timeliness is everything. He set a self-imposed deadline to finish recording by Election Day and to release his new LP, Oedipus the King, on Inauguration…
Join us for this week’s show, in which The 1975 travel back to 1989.
Inez and Charlie Foxx scored a big hit in ’63 but never fully broke out of the novelty box
The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
Willodean’s Awesome Life Decisions: Side One is sure to be 2017’s breakup album for the modern introvert. The six-song EP is the first of four to be released in 2017. The Los…
Although I’ve migrated between coasts for the better part of 10 years, I still represent my home state of Ohio whenever possible. That includes, of course, championing artists from the…
An artist who’s wholly planted in 2017 but whose music sounds utterly timeless, Rhode Island’s own Emeline knows the value of technology in building her career. A social media sensation,…
I cannot stop listening to The Painted Bird / Amidst, a carefully self-released affair that is, without question, the most riveting and enveloping record I’ve reviewed in months. How’s that…
This debut album, Standing At The Precipice, from Chicago duo Natalie Alms and Ollie Davidson – Almond & Olive – are very serious in what they present here. Songs that…
