A couple months ago I was browsing around the vinyl section at my local Half-Price Books when I came across a near-mint copy of the soundtrack to Two of a…
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This week, Michael Fortes introduces a new multimedia series on Popdose, featuring video interviews and performances by indie musicians in their own homes and studios. Enter Parlour to Parlour!
Mellow Gold tracks, country crossovers, and uncomfortable backing vocals — join Jason Hare (and his childhood haircut) as he takes us back to June 7, 1975 for this edition of CHART ATTACK!
On Tax Day, I went to the Chicago Loop post office Á¢€” the one with the Calder where Ferris Bueller twists and shouts Á¢€” to mail in my forms. An…
Al Gore was in Chicago last week, but without his PowerPoint deck. He was part of the Speaker Series, the post-Obama political craze. Gore talked about the role of carbon…
I know what you’re thinking: isn’t Popdose closed for the season?Á‚ What the hell is CHART ATTACK! doing here?Á‚ You raise a good point, but today’s post is here for…
Semi-expatriate singer-songwriter Josh Rouse, who moved from Nashville to Valencia, Spain, in 2004 but now splits his time between that city and Brooklyn, performed two shows at the Old Town…
Laurie’s Planet of Sound has been a fixture of Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood since 1997. Located down the street from the 80-year-old Davis Theater cinema, Laurie’s doesn’t waste an inch…
Every now and then I like to talk about what I have deemed Á¢€Å“inappropriate ghetto moments.Á¢€ These moments occur when I have the windows open in my car, the stereo…
Chicago – Stone of Sisyphus (Rhino) Fifteen years after Warner Bros. rejected Stone of Sisyphus, leading to Chicago’s departure from the label and kicking off over a decade of crass,…