”’State of Ease’ is a prayer for healing”
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With no offense to all those year-end lists filled with artists you’ve never heard of, this list should include lots of familiar names for listeners of a certain age…
I thought there would be tons of songs about princesses. I had maybe four.
Total widescreen pop show this week, and new Simple Minds!
Give 50 music writers a forum to tout their top 50 albums of the year and you’ll probably see 45 or so unique bands and albums on every person’s list. You’ll immediately…
Coldplay, Solomon Ray, Rush, and The Wild Wild in the Single Play spotlight this week!
Most year-end “Best of” lists are about wrapping up the year in a tidy bow and moving on, this list celebrates amazing albums that deserve new fans, continued spins and deeper listening…
LA’s Guardian Ghost blazes across the night sky casting off a comet tail of influences ranging from Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, Hooray For Earth, Editors and the Chameleons; shimmering…
There’s been a lot of chatter around the Popdose water cooler about the new Coldplay record, Ghost Stories. Suckfest? Giant whiny suckfest? I personally like the record, I don’t love…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
In this edition of Blerd Briefs: Chevy Chase leaves TV, Lil Wayne leaves hip-hop, Coldplay leaves the stage, and Chris Brown leaves Twitter.
Shuffle into the weekend with this week’s Friday Five!
Rob Smith’s Media 6ix: Eddie Van Halen, Gay Marriage, Avengers, etc.
Popdose reviews the new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto, and wonders if they’re stealing from U2’s playbook a little too often.
You’ll have to wait until the end of October to hear Coldplay’s new album, the titled-by-Tourette’s Mylo Xyloto. But thanks to the magic of YouTube, you can stream Mylo‘s second…
The Red Headed Stranger finds unexpected beauty in that song by Apple’s dad.
In conjunction with Chris Holmes’ fantastic Friday Mixtape, here are more Popdose musical turning points.
So wizard rock is apparently a real thing, which is nice; I’m sure that the Moms of the various members of, say, Draco and the Malfoys are all very proud…
It’s springtime again, and Scott Malchus is reflecting on baseball, family and the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis in this week’s Basement Songs.
Yes, yes, June is the traditional month of the year associated with weddings, but your brother isn’t getting married this Sunday is he? I didn’t think so. As an alternative…
Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy fears becoming one of those old men that only like the music they like and nothing else.
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.
“This list makes me sad.” – Kelly Stitzel It started off as a good idea, doing a special FNV highlighting the top 100 of 2001, what will be ten years…
The mayor of Bootleg City sends an update from prison, and the final two volumes of Y100 Sonic Sessions are featured in their entirety.
We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here’s the first installment.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE What is it about certain cities that feeds a musician’s muse? New York is certainly one of the more popular cities where many ‘o band…
Earlier this week I took a group of underprivileged kids to see the first big blockbuster of the summer movie season, Iron Man 2. Or at least they sounded underprivileged…
To fully enjoy the following piece of news from the mayor of Bootleg City, you must put on your 3-D glasses. And in order to be fully exploited by the…