So what does this have to do with music?
Bon Jovi
The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
My regular readers may recall my ongoing connection with the boy band Emblem3 — they’re the “X-Factor” finalists with whom I arranged a face-to-face interview with my then-14-year-old daughter, my…
Insane Clown Posse’s Literary Classics Reconsidered As anybody down with the clowns knows, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are adherents to the controversial theory that William Shakespeare did not…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Episode 3 focuses on MTV: the role of politics in its history and programming, and the politically motivated artists who’ve been a part of it.
Bon Jovi, Boyz II Men and lots of harmony highlight this week’s Bottom Feeders.
“Death by Power Ballad” explores Extreme’s “More Than Words.”
Rock stars? Grace and dignity?! Bwaahhh haaahhh haaahhh! (Here are a few reasons why not, provided by the Popdose Roundtable.)
Franke Previte wrote “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” and sang “Sweetheart.” He discusses his life and career with Rob Smith in the latest Popdose Interview.
There’s always been more to Toploader than “Dancing in the Moonlight.” Frontman Joe Washbourn talks to Popdose about how the band is back together and better than ever.
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a Crib left to plunder,…
In a very personal Flashback ’90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick’s Busted, song by song.
It’s another week for the letter B as we take a look at songs that hit the Billboard Rock charts but failed to cross over into the Hot 100 in…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE What possesses an artist to revisit his or her recordings years later and decide to remake the song? Sometimes it’s money, sometimes it’s about a…
All rise. The terms of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the final CHART ATTACK! of 2009! In case you haven’t noticed, Popdose has been pretty much taken over by horrible, horrible holiday music, and…
Trends may change and empires may crumble, but at least one thing always seems to stay the same: Bon goddamn Jovi can’t take a dump without it coming out platinum….
Had Bon Jovi been killed in a horrific, fiery airplane crash in 1985, we would remember them much differently than we do today. Had they experienced a painful, flesh-melting demise…
Any good label manager would tell you: don’t name your album something a reviewer could turn into a catchy, snarky counterpoint. But as we know far too well, most of…
Jeff Vrabel officially cracks open the Steel Horse Archives this week, and — what’s this? Cinderella comes crawling out!
Jeff Vrabel was a hair metal cowboy, and on a steel horse he rode…and he’s here to relive those Aqua Netted days with a new series that looks back on the glory days of Marshall stacks and spandex.
As people eat more meals outside the home, they consume more calories, less fiber, and more fat. Commodity prices have fallen so low that the fast food industry has greatly…
Jason Hare takes us back to 1989, when 38 Special begged for forgiveness, Peter Cetera warbled with Cher, and a “mystery artist” made it all the way to #2!
I try to do right, I try to do right, because I only got, only got, only got, only got…all that I have is one life to live. These are…
Do not be alarmed! Do not adjust your set! Chartburn hasnÁ¢€â„¢t gone away Á¢€” itÁ¢€â„¢s just sharing space with some more Friday features, including the the New Radio Roundtable, in…