When Chad Beattie, a 24-year-old from Baltimore, first told me about his bedroom project Yes Selma — a Dancer In The Dark nod — he referenced a lot of the…
Bjork
The return of Bjork and The Church…along with newcomers Vienna Ditto and Sirena are in the “Single Play” spotlight this week.
A countdown of ten artists who broke away from their old groups and went on to release great music in their own right.
Stop! Drop! Shuffle into the weekend! Join in this week’s Friday Five.
An all-women’s choir playing in the same venues on the same nights as indie rock and folk bands? That’s exactly what Conspiracy of Venus is.
The Friday Five is back and shuffling you into the weekend.
I haven’t seen ANY of this year’s slew of “Best Picture” nominees. Besides the high price of tickets and parking, I simply can’t sit still while today’s over-indulged directors take…
Preview “Gun Has No Trigger,” the soulfully abstract new single by Dirty Projectors, at Popdose.
Bottom Feeders introduces its first backronym and music from Blackstreet, Black Sheep and more.
Kelly Stitzel shares her 20 favorite albums of 2011, and then some.
In celebration of Madonna’s 53rd birthday, Robin Monica Alexander and Kelly Stitzel take a look back at her incredible — and controversial — career.
Back in the 1990s, there were these things called non-sequel movies, and the people that made these movies promoted them with youth-marketed soundtrack albums, shiny round objects containing primarily filler…
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this week’s Desert Island Discs, Ari Hest makes his picks.
In the last installment of her Best Original Song special series, Kelly Stitzel takes a look at the year in which Dylan won an Oscar and BjÁ¶rk brought the fashion crazy.
Popdose.com’s Weekly Mixtape returns with Kelly Stitzel’s ode to the flip side.
From the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, Michael Fortes runs through his top picks for the best albums of 2010.
Draumalandid is part of a full-on multimedia expose of Alcoa’s aluminum smelters in Reydarfjordur, Iceland. The company’s first plant was planned in 2002, built in 2005, and became live in…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Outer space … other planets … dying stars … these are the musical metaphors of many bands who use said metaphors to either describe something…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Last year, the Popdose staffers compiled their favorite songs of all time. We were asked to submit 100 songs that we absolutely love, and I…
All the Woodstock fever going around got Ted Asregadoo thinking about live music, so for this week’s Mix Six, he headed out of the studio and into the cheap seats.
For this week’s edition of Test of the Boomerang, Ben Wiser sat down for a chat with author J.J. Colagrande to discuss his new book, “Headz.”