The catalog and reissue market is booming! Popblerd’s Mike Duquette takes a look at some of the notable reissues on their way soon.
Posts tagged "Paul McCartney"
Popblerd’s 2012 Grammy Awards Live Blog!
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our live blog! Starting at 8 PM EST, we’re going to be hitting you with live coverage of the Adele Awards 2012 Grammy telecast, happening at the Staples Center in L.A. Join us for all of the surprise wins, all of the emotional tributes, and all of the bad outfits!
New Release Report 2/7/11: Van Halen, McCartney? What Year Is It?
Now, this is what I’m talking about. It’s less than a week until the Grammys, Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and I’m getting ready for my first legitimate trip to a record store to buy new music in 2012. Lots of stuff happening this week, boys and girls, so rev your engines and let’s get started. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for all of 2012 so far, you are well aware that A Different Kind of Truth, […]
bLISTerd: The 20 Best Holiday Songs Of All Time (Part 1)
Ho Ho Ho! We’re counting down our favorite holiday songs. Find out who made the cut!
Duet or Don’t, Volume 1: The Wonder of Michael
Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder were Motown prodigies who went on to become Grammy-winning behemoths. Mike Duquette takes a look at their collaborations in the first volume of “Duet or Don’t”!
bLISTerd: Mike D.’s Best Reissues of 2011 – In with the Old
With 2011 slightly more than half over, I’m realizing that I’ve probably bought more music in those seven months than I did in all of 2010. And I bought a lot. (Seriously, does anyone have more shelves? I need them badly.) But while I’ve enjoyed a lot of new music this year (Lady Gaga and The Cars immediately spring to mind), I’ve got to give it up for the fine folks working to provide great reissues and box […]
The Blerd & Gonzo Cover Convo: “Girlfriend” (MJ Edition)
Gonzo: So last time, you alluded to your selections for our next cover convo, and I’ve been waiting with curious anticipation ever since. Blerd: Well, we just finished up a lengthy conversation that was primarily about the King of Pop, so we’re gonna continue in that vein. Although neither version of this song is ESPECIALLY well-known, we’re gonna go with the reasonably popular version first-which, in this case, is the cover. G: Ah yes. B: one of the more incidental […]
Award Show Sundays: Hov, Linkin Park & Macca Give You an Encore (Do You Want More?)
Yesterday marked the 69th birthday of one of the greatest songwriters in history-Paul McCartney. For almost fifty years, the cute Beatle has maintained and polished his legacy with very few hiccups. Think about it, Paul’s least-liked period (critically) came at a point when he was enjoying a great deal of commercial success (post-Wings, early ’80s, “Ebony & Ivory”/”Say Say Say”). While he’s not selling records at the level that he was thirty years ago, his new albums routinely debut in […]
Mike Doughty Does Interview on NHPR; I Fall in Love All Over Again
Singer/songwriter Mike Doughty has long been a Popblerd! favorite, and even thought he’s between album projects, he’s still rocking around the country, doing shows, working on a highly-anticipated book (that I will hopefully get my grubby little mitts on the second it’s published), and giving awesome interviews like this one he recently gave to New Hampshire Public Radio. Over the course of the interview, Mike dishes on the breakup of Soul Coughing, discusses his songwriting technique, reps for Paul McCartneu, […]
Fran Healy Talks Goin’ Solo, Future of Travis in New Video
Scottish outfit Travis was one of those bands who got signed in the wake of the 90s Britpop invasion that kinda never was, at least not on these shores. While they’ve been best sellers in the UK for over a decade, they never made a major impact on British shores. A damn shame, in my opinion, ’cause I’d take “The Man Who” or “12 Memories” over anything by Oasis (except for maybe “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory”) in a heartbeat. […]
New Release Report 10/5/10: Imagining Lennon Reissues
Following last year’s Beatles reissues, the folks at EMI/Capitol are commemorating what would have been the 70th birthday of the great John Lennon by remastering and reissuing his entire eight-album catalog. If you have the scratch and/or are a tremendous Lennon fan, there is also the 11-disc [amazon-product text=”Signature Box” tracking_id=”popblerdcom-20″ type=”text”]B003TVMIDO[/amazon-product] that contains just about everything the man ever recorded and released. As John Lennon is one of the most iconic figures in popular music, I can think of […]
Chart Stalker 6/9/10: Jack Johnson Provides a Semblance of Order
One thing I should have mentioned in last week’s column is that it was the lowest week of recorded music sales in the Soundscan era, which goes back almost 20 years. Yes, we know there’s been a downturn in paid consumption of music over the last decade, but this is pretty much rock bottom, I think. Hopefully there’s nowhere to go from here but up. We’d be looking at an even worse week this week if not for Jack Johnson. […]