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CD Review: Spottiswoode & His Enemies, “Wild Goosechase Expedition”
It’s a good bet that whoever says there’s no such thing as an original idea — in music or otherwise — has not taken a good close listen to Jonathan Spottiswoode. The London-raised performer
Read More »CD Review: Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata, “The Hills are Alive”
Did you ever wonder what Tales from Topographic Oceans might sound like if it were written by Rodgers and Hammerstein instead of Jon Anderson and Steve Howe? Me neither, but that’s just the type
Read More »The Pop Culture Year That Wasn’t: Top Stories of (Fake) 2010
Popdose teams up with world-renowned CAP News for a look at the most important pop culture stories of the past year. February: Stern Gets Ellen, Kara DioGuardi to Kiss at Idol Audition HOLLYWOOD (CAP)
Read More »CD Review: Frank Turner, “Rock & Roll”
Leave it to British folk-rock rebel Frank Turner to come in under the wire for 2010 with Rock & Roll, a five-song EP that offers 17 of the most compelling minutes of music released
Read More »Farkakte Film Flashback: Off-Kilter Christmas Movie Edition
When I was a kid, every year around this time I would watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I did this despite the fact that critics regularly put this 1964 movie on their list
Read More »CD Review: Jason D. Williams, “Killer Instincts”
On “Like Jerry Lee,” the opening track to Jason D. Williams’ new album Killer Instincts, he deals right off the bat with the uncanny similarity — in look, ability and style — between the
Read More »CD Review: Elvis Costello, ‘National Ransom’
“You can’t hold me, baby, with anything but contempt,” Elvis Costello sings amid dueling guitars on the explosive title track that opens his latest album, “National Ransom” (Hear Music). It’s a classic Elvis indictment
Read More »CD Review: Leland Sundries, “The Apothecary”
The Boston Phoenix described indie-folk act Leland Sundries as “The Band meets Lou Reed,” and as intriguing a prospect as that is (I have to suppress an image of Reed and Levon Helm in
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