This week: Liz Phair before she sucked, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Petty and more.
Liz Phair
The fifth episode of Songs of Freedom continues the discussion from the last episode on politics and female recording artists.
The first of two parts on female artists in popular music and their relationships to the political, either through their music or image.
The Popdose staff sits down for an in-depth discussion of how much it hurts to break up with a favorite artist.
Fall into a Memory Lane pothole of Nineties goodness, in the Popdose Weekly Mixtape.
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
I admit it. I’m one of the people who loved Liz Phair in the early days and who is confused by the choices she has made. It’s an old and…
On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main…
The news spread across my Twitter feed late yesterday afternoon like a pixelated wildfire: 1) Liz Phair had a new single out; 2) It was fucking horrible. These things are…
I have a thing for films about a woman’s journey of self-discovery that take place against the backdrop of scenic Italy. There’s Under the Tuscan Sun, the 2003 film based…
When we last left our hero, Gary Clark, he was discussing his career as a recording artist…and if you missed it, then you must immediately haul yourself over to Part…
I posted an unsympathetic, knee-jerk response to a review on an indie-rock site, not to the review but to the band and the name of their album. The band is…
Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre —…