What do you do with thousands of copies of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Nick of Time’? Find out in ‘The Vinyl Diaries.’
Bonnie Raitt
Barbara George’s 1961 smash was her only hit but it was a monster
Celebrating the joys of the season with Otis Redding
The world lost a musical giant when Allen Toussaint died this week
Rob Smith reviews the new Shelby Lynne album, a slice of southern country/soul deserving of a large audience.
R&B pioneer Charles Brown released a Christmas classic in 1960
Scott Malchus revisits the soundtrack to that seminal film celebrating America’s two favorite past times: Sex and baseball.
This week we get to the entire letter of Q and move onto R with Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Shuffle through Michael’s Top Five records of 2012, and share your own!
Could I get any more excited for the release of Bonnie Raitt’s new album, Slipstream, on April 10? Possibly, if she’d agree to let me interview her. (Call me, Bonnie!)…
Add a bump to today’s grind. Songs to dirty dance the New Year’s night away.
Arnold McCuller calls “Soon As I Get Paid” his musical autobiography. He could haven’t chosen better songs or better players to help him to tell his story.
Dave Steed reaches the letter R this week on his quest to have you listen to every crappy 80’s song ever!
She’s become sort of a rock artist emeritus for the chablis-sipping set, but once upon a time, Bonnie Raitt’s music was raw and direct: her first three albums featured guest…
In the ever-evolving column we call Friday Night Videos!, there’s always room for expansion. This week, with Thanksgiving vittles solidly out of our systems (and it took a whole two…
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, and certainly not with that attitude, you young…
We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week we near the top 10, counting down numbers 20 to 11. Has your favorite made the list?
What’s in a name? When Norton Buffalo is the name in question, the answer is, quite a lot. While the name might not be immediately familiar to you, chances are…
In the beginning of a new Popdose series, Matt Wardlaw pays a visit to Wolfgang’s Vault and gets more than he bargained for.
There seem to be two camps of people when it comes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: those who feel that rock and roll deserves a permanent place…
Mariah Carey shatters a 21-year record (and probably a few crystal glasses), Color Me Badd continues to suck, and Bryan Adams is told his album isn’t Canadian enough. It’s all part of Jason Hare’s CHART ATTACK! from 10/19/91!
Bottom Feeders reaches the letter R this week, which means plenty of rockin’ with the likes of Rainbow, Bonnie Raitt, Ratt, and — hey, what the hell is Lou Rawls doing here?
Two years ago, when I was working on this column’s debut, I wrote about Bruce Springsteen’s “Book of Dreams” and what the song means to Julie and me. During the…
Maia Sharp, Echo (2009, Crooked Crown Records) Purchase this album (Amazon) I distinctly recall the first time I heard Maia Sharp sing. It was the summer of 1997, and I…
The Popdose Staff, led by the intrepid Jon Cummings, has banded together to present a mixtape full of songs from our own weddings. Walk down the aisle with us, won’t you?
I’m not much of a believer in band reunions — they seldom result in any output that actually improves the band’s legacy, and often have just the opposite effect. Still,…
My father was admitted into the hospital this week complaining of chest pains; because heÁ¢€â„¢d had bypass surgery in 1992, the doctors were very concerned about the condition of his…