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Arcade Fire
Every time I am about to write off this bit of malarkey we call “Americana,” something pulls me from the brink. Don’t roll your eyes at me. In the years…
Good concert films can either define an era (Woodstock, The Last Waltz) or an artist (Frampton Comes Alive, Cheap Trick at Budokan, Stop Making Sense). And then there are the…
More than 70,000 albums likely hit the market this year — along with just as many year-end “Best Of” lists. While word “best” is subjective at best, here are the…
Our review of “Walt Whitman Mall,” the new album by Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom
Imagine Roy Orbison fronting a band halfway between Arcade Fire and Delta Spirit and that lands you in the same zip code as upstart indie rockers Elim Bolt. “Farm Kid”…
A rollicking Popdose Roundtable that explains why you’ve been listening to Rumours in the wrong order, among other things.
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this week’s Desert Island Discs, San Francisco’s Lia Rose makes her picks.
Popdose.com’s Weekly Mixtape returns with Kelly Stitzel’s ode to the flip side.
The members of the Popdose staff have been counting down their favorite records. Now find out which ones we’ve collectively crowned the Top 20 of 2010.
From the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, Michael Fortes runs through his top picks for the best albums of 2010.
Kelly Stitzel discusses some of her favorite albums of 2010.
When Arcade Fire turned up in 2004, it was with nothing less than the most uplifting reflection on mortality ever put to record, the elegiac yet hopeful Funeral. Their 2007…
This week’s mixtape is an ode to Internet-only, independent radio station woxy.com, which, sadly, went off the air earlier this week — perhaps for good. To honor the contribution the…
It’s no secret that tribute albums and charity compilations can be hit-or-miss affairs at best. In the case of the latter, all you can really do is be happy that…