Hugh Masekela topped the charts with his 1968 hit but had a life and career that reached far beyond that hit
Paul Simon
Let there be Bread. (Sorry, I don’t have any Phish. You’ll have to ask Jesus about those bootlegs.)
2016 was a bad year for musicians, but a good year for music books
Mira Aasma, Bob Dylan, Night Argent, and Paul Simon in this week’s “Boomers and Millennials” Single Play
Lee DeWyze isn’t the first person to hear the soon-to-be-disproven words, “your life is about to change forever” on a reality TV show, nor will he be the last. It…
One great song, three great versions. Which is your favorite?
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Bart Simpson hangs with the 69 Boyz in this weeks edition of Bottom Feeders
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Dave, Jeff and Jason return with a look at the career of producer Phil Ramone, who passed away on March 30.
Will the second installment of our list of the ’70s best albums leave your knickers in a bunch? Don’t worry, the Popblerd team won’t take you on the highway to hell!
Ken Shane sits down with newly rediscovered superstar Sixto Rodriguez
Every year, while lording over an impressive amount of music catalogue news and views at my site, The Second Disc, I think the same thing at the end of every…
Several songs on Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water seem so perfect it’s as though they must always have existed. Surely the title song, “El Condor Pasa,” and “The…
There was nothing hippie about Simon & Garfunkel, really. Among the general run of late 60s pop stars, they were remarkably straight. That’s not to say they didn’t appeal to…
Singer-songwriter Jason Myles Goss will release his fourth album, “Radio Dial” on June 17, and it’s a surefire candidate to place high on my Top Ten list. I first heard…
A new setting for some classic songs makes for one of the finest concert films in recent memory.
Austin’s SXSW festival has earned its unruly reputation for the five-day bacchanal of live music that ends this spring event each year. Many people who’ve come to town in past…
The last of the Soundtrack Saturday reruns revisits one of the column’s first posts, about the John Cusack classic Better Off Dead.
The Editor-in-Chief runs down some of his favorite music from the year that was
Kelly Stitzel reviews the DVD release of the HBO adaptation of Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show, Wishful Drinking.
Otis Redding would have turned 70 tomorrow. The great New Orleans musician Wardell Quezergue died this week. Ken Shane pays tribute to both artists.
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
If you were stranded on a desert island with Richard Marx, here are the five things you would need to keep him happy.
The Popdose Podcast returns with an interview with Gorman Bechard, the creative force behind Color me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements.
We’ve come to expect great songwriting from Paul Simon. Ken Shane thinks that his new album is his best in a long time, and the finest album of the year so far.