Posted in Listening Booth, Music Listening booth — Queensrÿche, “Before the Storm” Chris Holmes posted on August 27, 2011August 27, 2011 Comments Off on Listening booth — Queensrÿche, “Before the Storm” As Hurricane Irene moved toward GFS headquarters in central New Jersey, here's a special Queensrÿche edition of the Listening Booth. Read More
Posted in Music Why The Hell Should I Like… A Tribe Called Quest? blerd posted on August 17, 2011June 16, 2014 2 Comments “Why the hell should I like… ?” is an experiment of sorts between Popblerd and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. What we’re going to attempt to do is to pick 10 songs from our favorite Read More
Posted in Listening Booth, Music Listening booth — RIP Jani Lane of Warrant Chris Holmes posted on August 12, 2011 Comments Off on Listening booth — RIP Jani Lane of Warrant Today we remember Jani Lane, former lead singer for the hard rock/hair metal band Warrant, who passed away yesterday at age Read More
Posted in Listening Booth, Music Listening booth — Mastodon, “Black Tongue” Chris Holmes posted on July 27, 2011July 27, 2011 Comments Off on Listening booth — Mastodon, “Black Tongue” Here's the lead single and video for the upcoming Mastodon album, The Hunter. For those let down by Crack the Skye (like me), this sounds real Read More
Posted in Listening Booth, Music Listening booth — Trombone Shorty, “Encore” (feat. Warren Haynes) Chris Holmes posted on July 26, 2011 Comments Off on Listening booth — Trombone Shorty, “Encore” (feat. Warren Haynes) Here's the lead single from Trombone Shorty's next album (and follow-up to Backatown), For True. It's "Encore" featuring Warren Haynes on Read More
Posted in Listening Booth, Music Listening booth — Kool & the Gang, “Too Hot” Chris Holmes posted on July 22, 2011 Comments Off on Listening booth — Kool & the Gang, “Too Hot” As most of the United States fries from this latest heat wave, let's listen to a song that references heat. That will make us feel Read More
Posted in Blogstuff Cross-pollination: My favorite instrumentals (on Popdose) Chris Holmes posted on July 22, 2011June 18, 2013 Comments Off on Cross-pollination: My favorite instrumentals (on Popdose) My latest Popdose mixtape features more than 20 of the greatest instrumentals you'll ever hear. Act now and get absolutely nothing else Read More
Posted in Capsules, History Pop Culture Capsule — July 20-26, 1986 Chris Holmes posted on July 21, 2011February 19, 2022 Comments Off on Pop Culture Capsule — July 20-26, 1986 We hope in the time machine and head back a quarter century to July 1986, to check out the top movies, music, and books of the Read More
Posted in Music, Sunday Jazz Sunday Jazz: Cal Tjader, “Shoshana” Chris Holmes posted on July 17, 2011July 16, 2011 Comments Off on Sunday Jazz: Cal Tjader, “Shoshana” In honor of the late, great vibraphonist and Latin musician Cal Tjader, let's listen to just one of his many brilliant contributions to Latin Read More