Led by Wilco’s Patrick Sansone on piano, Schoepp and his band become another link in this song’s chain.
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Anybody as active in a scene as Misra Records head and Pittsburgh indie-rock impresario Jeff Betten has to have a soft spot for the music. And, man oh man, does…
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has released an acoustic mini-masterpiece, an understated tour-de-force that quietly creeps up on you and never lets go. Tweedy’s new release, Together at Last, recorded at the band’s…
Singer-songwriter John Hampson of Nine Days joins us to talk about the band’s new album, Snapshots, which is being released July 8.
What influences the musicians that go on to influence others? Popdose invited John Arthur to add his Top Ten All-Time albums to the pantheon.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Wilco unleashed the blinking kitty last week on an unsuspecting audience. Does it blow blow up your Death Star or just scratch away at the kitty litter?
Jim O’Rourke can resemble a complicated musical chameleon. Since the late 80s, he has blended a patchwork career in the avant-garde with explorations into cinema, post-, folk- and alt-rock, and…
Exhilarating. Emotional. Exhausting. The 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
With a name that knowingly evokes the Beatles and the pinnacle of pop songwriting, The Paul & John set expectations sky-high for their debut album. In Inner Sunset, the fruit of a…
The Chicago band with the revolving cast of characters is doing the foxtrot with Ferry tonight. Get your 4/4 out on the dance floor with your other 1/2.
Singer-songwriter Don DiLego gives us his five Desert Island Discs.
Newport Folk Festival 2012 was highly anticipated, and did not disappoint.
Don DiLego’s first album in five years, the Western And Atlantic EP, is an excellent return to form.
The Portland band City Squirrel are set to release their excellent third album, defeat.
The mother of year-end lists: Popdose’s Top Albums of 2011.
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this edition of Desert Island Discs, Jason Corcoran of Gaston Light makes his picks.
Wilco’s back with a new label and everything. Check out “I Might” at Popdose.
Chris Holmes offers a selection of songs that helped him fall in love with some of his now-favorite artists, such as Randy Newman, Wilco, and Waylon Jennings.
We’re such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs.
I continue to find new examples every day that the old saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover” really is true. In this case, it relates to the…
Songs of love and sex, in alternating doses, for the day that is of valentines.
A funny thing happened to Everest on the road to releasing their second album. The plan was to release the album on Vapor Records, just as they had released their…
The venerable Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey, began life as a legitimate theatre in 1922 before being converted to a movie theatre in 1929. The venue fell on hard…
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.
Gary Hustwit is best known (to me, anyway) as the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary about Wilco, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, and his film about synthesizer pioneer…
Jim O’Rourke is either a master provocateur or just plain infuriating; it all depends on how you feel about his career as a whole. If you liked his experimental acoustic…
“We’ve kinda found that people really dig one record of ours or another, and then kinda want that version of Wheat to be the one that they always get,” said…