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Box Office Flashback: August 19, 1998
This week — a week late, to be perfectly honest — we revisit the dog days of summer '98!
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Papas Fritas
The Boston-area band released only three albums before breaking up in 2000, but have reunited for a series of shows in Europe. Robert Cass takes a look back at their brief but stellar discography
Read More »Bootleg City: Only the Good Die Young (The Rest Pray for Early Parole)
The incarcerated mayor of Bootleg City was deeply disappointed to hear that HarperCollins has canceled the publication of Billy Joel's memoir, The Book of Joel, but a 1976 bootleg of the Piano Man in
Read More »Box Office Flashback: March 28, 1990
Prostitutes! Excessive partying! Jessica Tandy! These are a few of Charlie Sheen's favorite things, and they all make cameos in this week's Box Office Flashback to March 28,
Read More »Box Office Flashback: January 28, 1982
Communists! Nazis! Old people! They all star in this week's Box Office Flashback to January 28,
Read More »Bootleg City: One Man’s Dystopia Is Another Man’s …
Todd Rundgren's Utopia performed in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 16, 1974, but Bootleg City is where you'll find the document of their concert
Read More »Sugar Water: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Say Anything Even Mildly Offensive
When Captain Owen Honors was demoted by the U.S. Navy on January 4 for in-house videos he made almost five years earlier, he learned an important lesson: electric cars aren't gay
Read More »Sugar Water: Have You Had a Skin Orgasm Lately?
Music-derived chills, or "skin orgasms," are experienced by certain personality types, especially during the holidays. Robert Cass goes up close and waaaay too personal to introduce readers to this phenomenon
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