It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
the Beatles
The last time I breathed the same air as Chris Ballew, lead singer and basitar player for The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA from here on out),…
It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for February 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
Liverpool and the American south came together in Muscle Shoals
Are moments like Beatles on Sullivan, The Elvis Comeback, Moonwalk on Motown and the Smells Like Teen Spirit music video doomed? Here’s some random speculation as to why that may be so.
February 9, 1964. 8:00pm. The click-clack of changing dials rings through American homes as the fuzzy gray picture on the television screen clears to reveal the gleaming eye of CBS…
I read Matt Ruff’s fantasy classic “Fool on the Hill” at a rather strange time in my life. I was living on the beach in South Africa, bartending sporadically, and…
As a lifelong Beatles obsessive, I could ruminate and pontificate about the various permutations of Beatles albums. As we all know, Capitol Records in the U.S. saw fit to reconfigure…
This upcoming weekend marks a milestone in music history; unless you live under a rock, you already know that it was 50 years ago Sunday that the Beatles performed on…
What can you learn from a 944-page book on the Beatles? Let’s start with these seven things.
Friday Five : |ˈfrÄ«dÄ – fÄ«v| : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button in iTunes and share the first five tracks and thought for…
Brenda Holloway hit it big. A year later BS&T hit it bigger.
Wherein we look at ten of the weirdest and most random products to be marketed using the Beatles name and image.
Two music legends unite in a remarkable collaboration
It’s time to stop, drop, and shuffle with this week’s Friday Five!
At a time when albums are teased, hyped, leaked, dissected, discarded and re-evaluated before they are even officially released, it has become increasingly rare to be able to approach one…
Covers of his songs are well know but his own versions are classic
A conversation with DA’s lead architect Terry Scott Taylor about the band’s new album, Dig Here, Said The Angel (and an album review to boot!)
In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
Every year, Record Store Day brings us new musical releases to surprise and delight. One of the most delightful surprises this year was a live recording by onetime Pavement frontman…
‘River Deep – Mountain High” was the greatest record to ever be rejected by the American public
1961 was a big year for the Shirelles, and many other artists
Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the nouveau classic rock of Leroy Justice.
In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
The Friday Five: If you show us yours, we’ll show you ours.