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Blerd Radio 2015 | Episode 6 : More Nostalgia; Exploring The Reissue Theory

by Popblerd Staff on May 18, 2015 • 1 Comment

I bet you can’t wait until the deluxe reissue of this podcast, coming your way in 2035. With bonus footage!

The Singles Bar: Tears for Fears, “Ready to Start”

by Mike D. on Aug 27, 2013 • 2 Comments

music / New Releases / news / Pop Music / rock music / The Singles Bar

New Wave legends Tears for Fears surprised fans with their first new recording in nine years: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” It might be crazy to call a band with 16 U.K. Top 40 hits “underrated,” but Tears for Fears – to this writer – have only seemed to earn the respect they truly deserve in recent times. In the last decade, Gary Jules and Michael Andrews had a U.K. chart-topper with a mournful cover of the band’s “ Mad World ,” […]

Election Day Special: The Popblerd Staff Releases Its College Records

by Popblerd Staff on Nov 6, 2012 • 5 Comments

music / Pop Music / rock music

Trump wants to see Obama’s college records? We’ll show him ours…

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (#50-#41)

by Popblerd Staff on Jun 11, 2012 • 3 Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / Michael Jackson / music / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music / soul music

We are in the top half of our ’80s list, and in this installment, R.E.M. appears twice and the King of Pop makes his first of three appearances. Find out what other albums made the cut.

Spin Cycle: Relient K’s “Is For Karaoke”

by Drew on Oct 7, 2011 • 1 Comment

Album Reviews / music / New Releases / rock music / Spin Cycle

Hard as it may be to throw together a good covers album – lest we forget the recent debacle of Puddle of Mudd’s unholy, mind-meltingly awful Re:(disc)overed – it’s difficult to argue that, at least within the realm of rock music, bands that perform in the pop-punk style have the best shot at album-length success. It’s a hard balance to strike – you have to fight the right tonal balance between sincerity and irony, never veering too far in either direction, […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the Eighties (30-21)

by MJ on Jul 27, 2011 • No Comments

bLISTerd / hip-hop / Lists! / music / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music / soul music / Videos

30. “Shock the Monkey” Peter Gabriel (1983) Peter Gabriel is often lauded for his video work, although most of his innovative music videos are overshadowed by his greatest video achievement (which we’ll get to later). Frankly, I still have no idea what the hell 1982’s “Shock the Monkey” is about, but it has everything – monkeys, midgets, dot matrix printouts… The song is apparently about lovers’ jealousy, but the video looks a lot more like paranoid schizophrenia to me. Whatever […]

White Lies Round 2

by Jesse on Jan 19, 2011 • No Comments

Album Reviews / music / rock music / Videos

Ian Curtis is rolling over in his grave. Not because the latest album by White Lies is a rip-off of Joy Division but because if Curtis were alive today, this is the kind of music he would be making. Ritual is a throwback to a great era. It’s an homage. It’s the first must-have album of 2011. Forget all the comparisons to contemporaries like Interpol and Editors, Ritual raises the bar and sets them apart from all. If Man Ray […]

No Fireworks on Dru Hill’s “InDRUpendence Day”

by MJ on Aug 9, 2010 • 2 Comments

Album Reviews / music / soul music

Here’s a question? What happened to the R&B group? Please understand the differentiation between the R&B band (which died out after Mint Condition faded away and Tony Toni Tone broke up in the late Nineties) and the R&B group-four or five guys harmonizing and usually adding some spiffy synchronized choreography to their routines. 15 years ago, you couldn’t shake a stick without bumping into a Shai, Silk, Jodeci or Intro, but now the few groups that are left are in […]