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Mini-bLISTerd: A Tribute to the Style of Nile

Mini-bLISTerd: A Tribute to the Style of Nile

If you like music and you’ve been on the Internet in the past few weeks, you can’t go far without seeing Daft Punk’s name in print. The French dance duo came back in a big way this month with the release of 
Call Off the APB: Remy Shand Returns!

Call Off the APB: Remy Shand Returns!

Well holy shit, Remy Shand. Where the hell have you been?
I Wanna Listen to Robin Thicke's New Song "4 the Rest of My Life"

I Wanna Listen to Robin Thicke’s New Song “4 the Rest of My Life”

Croon your little heart out, Robin Thicke. Following the pop/dance triumph of “Blurred Lines,” which has gone from a YouTube curiosity (ooh naked women) to an actual hit, Robin serves his core constituency with the ballad “4 the Rest of My Life.” Rob’s slow...
Virtual Insanity: Introducing the... XBox One?

Virtual Insanity: Introducing the… XBox One?

At 10 am PST this morning, Microsoft unveiled the next generation of the  XBox gaming console to the unwashed masses. The results were… interesting, to say the least. We can look forward to more news in a few weeks at E3, but for now, here are eight...
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: Album Review

Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: Album Review

From their 1997 debut Homework and even moreso with 2001′s Discovery, Daft Punk arguably became the foremost ambassadors of electronic music, at once pleasing the discerning tastes of college radio and mainstream audiences. They’ve simultaneously managed to maintain a sort of indie credibility while...
Cold as Ice: There's Got to Be a Morning After...

Cold as Ice: There’s Got to Be a Morning After…

After nursing their wounds and counting their blessings, respectively, Jay and Stephen are back to recap the happenings in round two of the playoffs. Here’s your cheat sheet to sound like you know your hockey in the bar this week! Jay: Much has happened since last we chatted....
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

There was a time that Vampire Weekend perched, perilously, on the precipice of being one of the great one-album wonders of the ’00s. Like Cannibal Ox or At the Drive-In or Bloc Party before them, the Ivy League pop-rockers seemed poised to turn heads with one masterstroke...
The National, Trouble Will Find Me: Album Review

The National, Trouble Will Find Me: Album Review

Drama and Discovery – these are two essential tenets to my history as an audiophile.  I admitted to my facebook friends and colleagues here at Popblerd that I’d missed the boat for the past 13 years on The National.  My bad.  I’m making up for lost time...
So...Kanye Was the Musical Guest on "SNL" This Past Weekend...

So…Kanye Was the Musical Guest on “SNL” This Past Weekend…

The return of Mr. West...or should we call him...Yeezus?
Middle Class Rut, Pick Up Your Head: Album Review

Middle Class Rut, Pick Up Your Head: Album Review

On the fantastic Pick Up Your Head, Middle Class Rut has exceeded all expectations regarding how a second album should sound. That sound itself is fuller, the songwriting is stronger, and the musicianship is just brilliant. While both albums are great in their own...
Who The Hell Is...Lady?

Who The Hell Is…Lady?

Make sure you treat THIS Lady right!
Drews & Don'ts: The 20 Best Episodes of "The Office"

Drews & Don’ts: The 20 Best Episodes of “The Office”

As “The Office” closes its doors after nine seasons of workplace hijinks, it’s hard to separate the show at large from what the show’s become. Following television’s grandest tradition of continuing a successful sitcom long beyond its logical stopping point, the mockumentary sitcom has trudged through two largely laugh-free seasons...
"The Michael J. Fox Show": I Know What I'll Be Watching Next Season

“The Michael J. Fox Show”: I Know What I’ll Be Watching Next Season

Michael J. Fox is returning to TV!! Sha la la la!!
The Popblerd Travel Guide to Pittsburgh

The Popblerd Travel Guide to Pittsburgh

The Steel City. The City of Champions. The Golden Triangle. Sixburgh. The City of Bridges. Pittsburgh goes by many names, but my personal favorite is of course “home.” I was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, and a five year notwithstanding, have lived here for as long. One of...
Filter, The Sun Comes Out Tonight: Album Review

Filter, The Sun Comes Out Tonight: Album Review

Filter is back with a vengeance on The Sun Comes Out Tonight, the band’s sixth album. Richard Patrick and his newest partner-in-crime Johnny Radtke (Formerly of Kill Hannah) have concocted an incredibly solid release that moves the band forward but has its roots firmly...
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All Hail the Return of Goodie Mob!

All Hail the Return of Goodie Mob!

Who needs an OutKast reunion anyway?

Matt Nathanson Channels Hitchcock with "Mission Bells" Video

Matt Nathanson Channels Hitchcock with “Mission Bells” Video

Singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson’s new video “Mission Bells” looks back to the horror films of Alfred Hitchcock for inspiration. He says: “we shot it in San Francisco as an homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock. The idea was to make the kind of video you might have seen if you watched “120 minutes” back in the day… which was MTV’s show dedicated to alternative bands like The Cure & Love and Rockets. The video was directed by Fort Ripper, who rule. [...]

The Lost Bill Murray Double Feature: Nothing Lasts Forever and A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

The Lost Bill Murray Double Feature: Nothing Lasts Forever and A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Even great actors make shitty movies.

30 Seconds To Mars, LOVE, LUST, FAITH + DREAMS: Album Review

30 Seconds To Mars, LOVE, LUST, FAITH + DREAMS: Album Review

30 Seconds to Mars…lost in space?

I Think I've "Grown" Out of Listening to Beyonce

I Think I’ve “Grown” Out of Listening to Beyonce

New Beyonce. New blah.

Popblerd's New Release Report 5/21/13

Popblerd’s New Release Report 5/21/13

ROBOTS! ROBOTS! BEWARE!

RIP Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013

RIP Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013

Organist Ray Manzarek has died at the age of 74 following a years-long battle with cancer. Best known for his work with The Doors, Manzarek was a key component in shaping that group’s sound. The Doors are equally embraced and reviled. While certainly overrated in the grand scheme of pop music, they managed to produce a unique aesthetic in their four-year run,  which yielded six studio LPs and one live album (supplemented by numerous studio and stage releases following Jim [...]

Metal Monday Volume 123 (5.20.13)

Metal Monday Volume 123 (5.20.13)

MA heavy rock is alive and well and Second Grave is definitive proof of that. Honestly, it doesn’t matter what bands the members of Second Grave used to be a part of. What matters is what they’re doing now which is completely and utterly fantastic. On their debut album/EP (It’s six songs but three of those hit the eight minute mark), the purveyors of true doom might come off as a female-fronted Sabbath (No, not Hand Of Doom) at first but they [...]

Blerd Radio 2013 Episode 10: Blerd Radio Goes to the Jersey Shore

Blerd Radio 2013 Episode 10: Blerd Radio Goes to the Jersey Shore

A brand new, funny, potentially slightly offensive podcast? Yes, please!!

Songs in the Key of Life 34: “Fistful of Tears”

Songs in the Key of Life 34: “Fistful of Tears”

Ever stand in front of a mirror and just stare at yourself for a while? What happened? Did you check out your wonderful/flawed physical features? Did you begin to talk to yourself? Did you sing? I did it just a few days ago and the reflection lacked any type of humor. I realized that I am angry. For mother’s day, my family went to go pay a visit to my mother at her old South Carolina church’s backyard cemetery. My [...]

The Carlton Shuffle, 5/18/13

The Carlton Shuffle, 5/18/13

Better late than never, as they say. Rock out with us in this week’s Carlton Shuffle!

bLISTerd Lite: Top 5 Videos by the *Other* Jacksons

bLISTerd Lite: Top 5 Videos by the *Other* Jacksons

Marlon needs love, too.