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…
Joe Jackson
In which we say farewell to summer – and title-themed shows, for now – with a title-themed show about summer.
Pritchard’s melodies are usually quite hummable off the bat, but his stories can take you just about anywhere — through love and anger, darkness and light.
There is an alternate universe version of this show with Spinal Tap and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Be thankful that we don’t live in that world.
It’s been…time this show had a leprechaun dance moment. Can’t understand what I mean? You soon will.
The turkey is on the platter, but you may not want to take a bite. This one is RARE.
Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
New music from Joe Jackson, Whissell, Gabrielle Papillon, and Nina Schofield
You know Joe Jackson mainly by three songs. Here are ten others you should be aware of.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
For all the cries of Joe Jackson’s “forsaking” pop, 1994’s “Night Music” says otherwise.
You know the rest of the Twenty-Teens will be a hard slog when even the quality of our rebellion is mediocre. Look at the so-called “rebels” in today’s pop culture…
We’re letting the music do the talking for the most part, this week — because this stretch of Disc Three is all killer, no filler! Or, as panelist Mike Heyliger…
You’ll be seeing a lot of these two men over the next few days-check out the beginning of our list of the top 100 albums of the Seventies!
Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton finally take the heat off of mothers and focus on fathers — Jason’s dad Gary joins us for Episode 19 of The Popdose Podcast!
Not that it’s a bad thing at all, but Graham Parker sounds almost exactly like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Jam, and Marshall Crenshaw. Parker had been toiling…
Or, to borrow an album title from the Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful. In 1990, Joe Jackson had just signed a spiffy new deal with Virgin Records after spending 10…
Popdose.com looks back fondly on the EP format, A&M Records’ fun releases and Joe Jackson’s take on a Jimmy Cliff classic.
WAKEY WAKEY!! It’s almost noon (eastern standard time), the streamers streamed, the fireworks worked (with fire!), and the punch is, egad, still punching. Here then is an impromptu mini-mixtape to…
Dave Steed reflects back on the time he spent listening to the Jefferson Airplane reunion record instead of the Jam. Dumb ass.
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.
What’s the easiest way for a record company to take your money every holiday season? Box sets! Join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton for a discussion of the best and worst compilations on the most recent episode of the Popdose Podcast!
It’s White Label Friday, kids! When I say dance, you best dance, muthafucka! Note: It should be said up front that most of these MP3s were acquired during the Wild…
I have a 1988 Chevy Celebrity station wagon. It was my grandfather’s and it, chronologically, was his last car so there is a lot of history and memories attached to…
I first became a fan of Jill Sobule’s after hearing her 1997 album, Happy Town. Though I was familiar with her work via her earlier singles, “I Kissed a Girl”…