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The Popdose Guide to Marti Jones
To fans of her four albums of marvelous acoustic pop in the mid-to-late ’80s, Marti Jones seemed on the cusp of becoming the next (albeit far hipper) Linda Ronstadt. Jones had inherited La Ronstadt’s
Read More »Don Dixon and Marti Jones LIVE!: The Official Bootleg
For a few precious years in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the most communal experience on the pop touring circuit was a family affair. Recording artist-producer Don Dixon and his wife, the singer-songwriter
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Robert Hazard’s Philly Rock ‘n’ Roll
My brief tenure as a resident of Philadelphia, from 1990 to ’92, coincided with a period of remarkable growth for the Hard Rock Cafe chain of restaurants. The chain’s cofounders, Isaac Tigrett and Peter
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Kay Hanley & the Pussycats
Editor’s note: What follows is no less than the third column that Popdose writer Jon Cummings has attempted to wring out of a single interview last fall with former Letters to Cleo vocalist Kay
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Why Hannah Montana is So AWESOME!!!
Almost exactly a year ago on this site, my esteemed Popdose colleague Dw. Dunphy closed a column by asking, “What has modernity offered you? Hannah Montana?” He was concluding a well-considered paean to vinyl-record
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Ten Years of Loving “10 Things I Hate About You”
A decade ago this past summer, Kay Hanley and her bandmates in Letters to Cleo had to be talked into accepting a free trip to Hollywood when the producers of a new teen comedy
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Paul McCartney, Dearly De-Charted in the ’80s
Whether you were a child of the ’60s or (like me) of the ’70s, the Beatles’ perpetual presence on the radio seemed something of a birthright. Every “official” Beatles single between “I Want to
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Suedehead & Pigskin
I may be a bit slow on the uptake these days when it comes to television commercials — I don’t watch much live TV anymore, what with the TiVo and all. But after about
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Jon’s Singles File vs. the Faceless Narcissists
Among the many types of radio star that video killed were what I like to call the Faceless Narcissists – those acts of the pre-MTV era who felt compelled to name their acts after
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)
Last week’s massive international celebration of Vinyl Record Day (wait – you say that big party they showed on TV was about the Olympics?) reminded me of my teenage fascination with backmasking and its
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