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…
Pink Floyd
We may have record amounts of snow and ice across the US but we still turn the heat up with more rock from Robert Plant, Pink Floyd and the Pixies.
The Popdose Staff mulls over the continuing slow-motion fall of the “record album.”
In a world filled with awkward family holiday reunions, three men gather to remind you that it could be worse: you could be a Brady or Stewart Copeland. Join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton for a discussion of the best and worst pop culture reunions on Episode 15 of The Popdose Podcast!
There’s been a lot of comments about this series and I want to thank everyone, even the folks who are incensed that I didn’t make The Lamb Lies Down on…
So after having posted a couple editions, and having offered up some wildly unorthodox examples of what I believe progressive rock to be, it now falls on me to clarify…
I have a hammock. Last week, upon returning home from work, I shut off the Jetta and got out of my car, sweating and tired. The side gate was open….
I had never heard of Bettye LaVette until about four years ago. A friend had made me a mix CD to listen to on a road trip and on it…
Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible….
All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
In 2008 the Uglysuit came riding out of Oklahoma City. Their debut album impressed a lot of people, and their live show is winning them new fans at every stop on the road.
I spent close to a decade playing songs from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon on the radio every single day. I’ve bought the album about five times in…
Phish is back with their first album in five years, and Ben Wiser thinks it might be their best yet. Also: A list of potential candidates for Phish’s 2009 “Halloween costume.”
Tom Petty might have been one of the biggest artists of the ’80s, but not even he was immune to the cold hand of Dave Steed’s Bottom Feeders — and neither were Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, and Pet Shop Boys, all of whom surface in this week’s column.
Now, where were we? Oh, that’s right: we were chatting with the one and only Francis Reader, frontman for the Trashcan Sinatras. If you tuned in last week (and you…
In the first part of a multi-week look back at the double album, Ben Wiser revisits the birth of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
As I’ve mentioned previously, Uncle Donnie’s been writing these things for yearsÁ¢€”decades, even. Lev brings over another box of them every once in a while. This one dates back to…
May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania…
May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania…
When I first heard that the new Doves album, Kingdom Of Rust, hearkened more toward their first album, Lost Souls (2000), than their most recent, Some Cities, even though that…
Through the eyes of my son, IÁ¢€™ve been reliving a part of my youth in the form of colorful costumed super heroes from cartoons and the pages of comic books….
I’ll be honest: I downloaded this mix a few months ago, after searching for it for years (decades, even), but planned to do nothing with it…until I read the comment…
Another sad day in Floyd land. “The Violent Sequence” (early version of “Us and Them” from the Zabriskie Point sessions, 1970) “It Would Be So Nice” (single version, 1968) “Remember…
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that this has been the hardest post for me to write since Popdose started. I mean, it’s been a damn month:…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/r-XtvR6-ckg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Pink Floyd, “Keep Talking” (1994) Scott: Could Gilmour sound more bored? No wonder he called Floyd quits. Although Momentary Lapse of Reason…
Some people are just flat-out smart-asses. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be at times, mind you, but a good smart-ass pulls it off with a modicum of grace…
My grandfather loved his guitars. He listened to old Hank Williams Sr. records, a bit of Les Paul and Mary Ford, and a smattering of Hawaiian music, all to hear…
My mom, God rest her soul, hit the nail on the head. She always used to ask me, “Why must you do everything ass-backwards?” She had a point. Shoes went…