Anybody as active in a scene as Misra Records head and Pittsburgh indie-rock impresario Jeff Betten has to have a soft spot for the music. And, man oh man, does…
Beatles
Making way for a discount of a pre-determined nature involving digits, this podcast is quite the steal!
What can you really say that hasn’t already been said about Paul McCartney? This isn’t some “rock critic” trying to dissect the now 46-year solo career of the greatest…
Kurt Cobain’s first solo record – recently released 21 years after his 1994 suicide and paired with a suspect “documentary” film project of revisionist mythmaking and iconography – is a…
Gary Cherone is perhaps best-known for being the longtime vocalist of the Boston-based rock band Extreme and after that, the guy who picked up the microphone for Van Halen as…
February 9, 1964. 8:00pm. The click-clack of changing dials rings through American homes as the fuzzy gray picture on the television screen clears to reveal the gleaming eye of CBS…
I read Matt Ruff’s fantasy classic “Fool on the Hill” at a rather strange time in my life. I was living on the beach in South Africa, bartending sporadically, and…
This upcoming weekend marks a milestone in music history; unless you live under a rock, you already know that it was 50 years ago Sunday that the Beatles performed on…
What can you learn from a 944-page book on the Beatles? Let’s start with these seven things.
A conversation with DA’s lead architect Terry Scott Taylor about the band’s new album, Dig Here, Said The Angel (and an album review to boot!)
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the nouveau classic rock of Leroy Justice.
Rob Smith meditates on memory, music, and the Beatles in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
The Blue Sky Riders might be the best band you’ve never heard of (featuring a few people you might be familiar with).
As if there wasn’t enough evidence of the vast gulf between record industry marketing practices of the 1960s and today, consider this: less than six months after releasing an album…
Want the whole story? Here it is, come and … oh never mind.
Brandon Schott’s latest album, “13 Satellites,” is really good. Just ask Rob Smith …
Rob Smith’s new vinyl column opens with E.L.O.’s disco record, “Discovery.”
“Death by Power Ballad” explores Extreme’s “More Than Words.”
Our new column, where we dissect the latest rantings from the crazy, fucked-up world of America’s creepiest music and technology blogger/gadfly.
Popdose concludes the ever-popular series that imagines a Beatles world without a breakup.
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…