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…
Jeff Lynne
The sublime Concert for George has been released in a stunning new four-LP box set
Classic pop raconteur and all around nice guy is joined by Jason Falkner for the latest edition.
Enter to win Pugwash’s ”Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)” on ruby red vinyl!
Pugwash is a band that jumped in the time machine in 1969 and, fortunately for us, arrived right on time now.
Many great Hollywood Westerns were shot in the San Fernando Valley, so it almost seems fitting that an Americana/Texas/Country Rock tour de force like Brady Harris is actually encamped in…
Rob Smith’s new vinyl column opens with E.L.O.’s disco record, “Discovery.”
The Beatles are kind of always in the not-distant background, as they are the goddamn Beatles. But every five years or so, there’s a major resurgence in Beatles interest, popularity,…
There is nobody singing today that can parallel the pain in Roy Orbison’s voice.
Last week Ken Shane had the opportunity to speak with Shelby Lynne about her new record Revelation Road, the most personal album of her career.
Fall is coming so get happy, dammit. Here’s a mix to help you along.
Popdose concludes the ever-popular series that imagines a Beatles world without a breakup.
One year after his death, a group of George Harrison’s friends got together to pay tribute to him. The stunning film of that event is now available on Blu-ray.
This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
The second (and seemingly final) Traveling Wilburys album turns 20 this week — and for Dw. Dunphy, the disappointment still stings a little.
The Popdose staff curates this mix to be a companion through the headlong rush to the winter solstice.
This review is late. Eight years late, to be exact but I do have an excuse. The only way I could have gotten it in on time would be to…
The Silver Seas are back with Chateau Revenge, which Michael Parr thinks might be the best record released so far this year.
Remember that mixtape from last week? One hundred Beatles covers? That thing was EPIC! It was freaking magnificent! Yup… That was… really something. Well, then. Midnight Oil – Under The…
I have to admit that I am not one of the people who jumped on the bandwagon for Regina Spektor’s last album, the 2006 breakthrough Begin to Hope. I’ve still…
So it’s been at least nine months, if not more, since I stopped buying ’80s albums. I made a conscious effort to stop spending the cash on records once my…
This week in Popdose Flashback, Scott Malchus takes us back to the birth of Tom Petty’s first solo flight. Twenty years later, he still has Full Moon Fever — do you?
So I had a great idea. An entire post about fake rock bands — groups made up for your cinematic pleasure that, in spite of not actually being real bands,…
As a musician, singer, and songwriter, I am often surprised by the similarities between myself and Tom Petty. WeÁ¢€â„¢ve both been supremely blessed with the love of good women, the…
If you’ve been dreading the return of this column ever since Popdose ended its holiday hiatus, then allow me to tell you who you have to blame for my decision…
Remember when the Hustle swept through discos everywhere?Á‚ People were taking Hustle classes, the nightly news reported on the fad, there were instructional records and books.Á‚ Hey, remember when everyone…
“I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.” Á¢€”Dr. John Boy, if that doesn’t sum up the self-titled debut/swan song of Bounce the Ocean,…
Instincts run hot and cold, depending on who is relying on them. Some artists go against the grain and it works out fantastically for them. Some make last-minute choices that,…