Does “Damn.” live up to the hype? Iman Lababedi provides the answers.
Kanye West
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…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
As you may or may not know, writing for Popblerd is merely what I do during the day; at night, I dive headfirst into the glamorous world of karaoke, where I make my money congenially badgering people into singing in front of strangers. (I also do the “Cupid Shuffle”, like, a lot. It’s a dance comprised of four simple steps, which really speaks to my whiteness dancing abilities.) But the simple fact remains that, while karaoke has gained a lot […]
Every Wednesday, music nerd and serial list-maker Drew brings you a small, highly specific, pop culture-related list to either enjoy or inspire debate. He remains the only Popblerd staffer pretentious enough to name a column after himself. First things first: these aren’t necessarily the most underrated albums of all time. That’s a different column for a different day, and for my money, would probably be populated with a fairly tiresome amount of Boston bands (still the liveliest music city I’ve […]
Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
What goes up must come down, and in the second half of our Note for Note column, we investigate the last decade and a half of Janet Jackson’s career.
Our full list of the 100 greatest rap albums of the Nineties, plus, a few fun facts!
Three of these men appear in this installment of our hip-hop albums list. I’ll let you guess which one doesn’t belong.
Public Enemy, Ice Cube, and BDP kick off the second half of our list of the 100 greatest rap albums of all time.
bLISTerd holds a Juice Crew reunion! Biz, Kane and Kool G. Rap all appear in the latest installment of the 100 greatest rap albums of all time!
The second installment of our greatest rap albums list gives props to old school, new school, and artists who combine the two…like Camp Lo.
For the second episode of ”Songs of Freedom”, Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez focus on the Occupy movement, especially its beginning point at Occupy Wall Street.
Popdose’s year-end wrapup continues with Dw. Dunphy’s favorites from 2011.
To celebrate the twentieth episode of The Popdose Podcast, Jeff, Jason and Dave are joined by music industry veteran (and longtime Popdose supporter) Peter Lubin for a varied and fascinating discussion on the biz. Take a listen!
Popdose.com takes another flight into alternate musical realities; this one is where Jon Brion becomes a huge star.
The Popdose Staff mulls over the continuing slow-motion fall of the “record album.”
Music-derived chills, or “skin orgasms,” are experienced by certain personality types, especially during the holidays. Robert Cass goes up close and waaaay too personal to introduce readers to this phenomenon.
There are events, items and personalities that become so absorbed in the culture, it is hard to believe they weren’t always there. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane…
The members of the Popdose staff have been counting down their favorite records. Now find out which ones we’ve collectively crowned the Top 20 of 2010.