We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week, we count down from 35 to 21. Did your favorite make the list?
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The history of pop music is filled with stories about record companies mishandling bands. But the plight of the early 1980s Washington, DC-based 4 Out of 5 Doctors is one…
So, I’ve listened to thousands of metal albums both old and new and at some point decided to start making a list of the top albums I’ve heard. It started…
I’ll tell you one thing right from the jump; Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy/Concord Music Group), may be my favorite album of the year from a…
This week we begin the letter B, looking at songs that hit the Billboard Rock and Modern Rock charts in the 1980s but failed to cross over into the Hot 100….
When Delta Spirit released their 2008 debut album Ode To Sunshine, I quickly became a fan of the San Diego band. I appreciated the first-rate songwriting, and the impassioned delivery…
Rob Smith says Yes (exclamation point) to Therapy (question mark) in the new installment of “Rob Smith Can’t Say No,” only at Popdose.com
Alex Chilton was the king of rock ‘n’ roll. The king of rock ‘n’ roll is dead. Long live the king.
When Alex Chilton died, it left a gaping hole in the hearts of music fans everywhere. The Popdose staff remembers Chilton’s life, music, and legacy.
In the summer of 1978, EMI saw the light. Driven by interest in Big Star in the U.K., they released a gatefold double album package containing the first two Big…
Proving “twee” isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, Yael Meyer‘s Heartbeat finds her gossamer voice clinging like drops of honey to impossibly fine strands of acoustic guitar, ukulele, melodica, piano,…
Popdose’s Rob Smith wants YOUR input for his new column, “Rob Smith Can’t Say No.” Send him your musical suggestions — anything you want — and he has to listen. Ready, set, go!
Alicia Keys, “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” from The Element of Freedom I find her albums awfully inconsistent, but Alicia Keys is a fine singles artist; other R&B performers…
When the 2007 live action-animation hybrid movie of Alvin and the Chipmunks made $60 million in its opening weekend, it took people by surprise. Hadn’t the besweatered musical trio outstayed…
The Popdose staff concludes its look back at the decade that was with a list of our 100 favorite albums.
It’s been a tumultuous decade for music, but it hasn’t all been bad — and the Popdose staff has just the list of songs to prove it.
FIREHOUSE TITLE: “Don’t Treat Me Bad” ALBUM: Firehouse RELEASE DATE: Aug. 21, 1990 Why You Remember Them: For one of two reasons: Either for their two-ply, baby-soft semi-rocker “Don’t Treat…
With contradictory reports about the future of Aerosmith in the news — and at least a decade of lousy albums ringing in his ears — Jason Miller is giving up. Or not.
This week, Dave Steed sets off a chain reaction, goes crazy from the heat, rocks a tricky rhyme, and bangs on the drum all day with Tom Sawyer.
Ken Shane reviews a release that will have power-pop lovers drowning in ecstasy for the rest of the year: the new Big Star box set from Rhino Records.
Built to Spill, There is No Enemy (2009, Warner Bros.) Purchase this album (Amazon) If Doug Martsch sang like Dave Grohl, Rivers Cuomo, or even Thom Yorke, Built to Spill…
It’s Beatles Week here at Popdose, and Jon Cummings kicks things off by leading the staff through a list of our personal Fab Four favorites.
As a general rule, I don’t have much time for country music; I developed a distaste for it during the early ’90s, when its Garth Brooks-led resurgence meant any critic…
Jeff Vrabel is back on his Steel Horse again, and this time, he’s taking us back to a power ballad that arrived just in time for the death of hair metal.
Welcome back to another edition of Jon Cummings’ award-winning look at great #2 singles of the pop era! This week: hits from Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and God.
Dave Steed’s Bottom Feeders has reached the end of the letter M, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to inhale the noxious fumes of the lowest-charting singles Anne Murray released in the ’80s. Yum!
It has been over two weeks since I sent the two emails to Dee SniderÁ¢€â„¢s web site and to his publicist. No reply so far, so I guess I wonÁ¢€â„¢t…
He’s got a new album with Susanna Hoffs on the shelves, but he isn’t too busy to answer your questions. Ladies and gentlemen, the Popdose Interview with Matthew Sweet!
With the first six months of 2009 on the books, the Popdose staff has once again huddled up, made a list of its favorite albums of the year (so far), and laid ’em all out for you (with mp3s!).
This has been a year in which two of rock’s greatest icons have released new studio albums far ahead of their usual schedule. Bruce Springsteen released Working on a Dream…