Before I start talking about the Baltimore-based power pop band known as Splitsville, I should let them start talking…and I’ll do so by offering up the very first track from…
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Hi, everybody! Would you like to play a game? It’s a horrible game, really, but it’s been ages since Jeff and I have played it. In fact, it’s never actually…
Robyn – Konichiwa Bitches from Robyn (2008) Charlie Parker – My Little Suede Shoes from Talkin’ Bird (1999) Billy Pilgrim – Lady of the Mist from Bloom (1995) Jeff Beck…
Hi everyone — Brian Ibbott here from the Coverville radio show/podcast here with the twenty-eighth edition of Name That Tune. Scraps was generous enough to offer me the chance to…
Welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK!, everyone! Sick of the ’90s? Sick of the ’80s? Sick of … uh … the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, 1970, 1971, and…
Standing inside the Knockout in San FranciscoÁ¢€â„¢s Mission district late on a Wednesday night, August 27, 2008, I couldnÁ¢€â„¢t help but feel a sense of dÁƒ©jÁƒ vu. I know IÁ¢€â„¢ve…
Multiple choice time on Popdose, kids. Make sure that pencil is a #2 and don’t forget to fill your circles completely. Your future depends on how you do on this…
Anyone who’s ever worked at a record store that buys and sells used CDs can tell you what titles they see over and over again.Á‚ Jagged Little Pill, Cracked Rear…
Garage-rockin’ record-collector recidivists will call this one an easy layup, but most U.S. rock fans living outside that niche fraternity are (probably blissfully) unaware that the Dutch rock band Golden…
Maybe itÁ¢€â„¢s the fall, or the fact that IÁ¢€â„¢m missing the fall, but every September my heart starts to feel the season change as if it were turning from blood…
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. HeÁ¢€â„¢s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Amie Miriello, I Came Around (BellaSonic/Jive/Zomba) purchase this album (Amazon) The current boomlet of female singer-songwriters hasnÁ¢€â„¢t yet spawned a Lilith Fair revival, but you can just feel one coming…
Hi Kids. Welcome to post #7 of Test of the Boomerang. I’m glad the Popdose crew have decided to keep me around. The weekly Popdose beer busts have been great….
SHE’S A MODERN GIRL (na na na na na) Back in the neon-colored days of the ’80s, Sheena Easton ruled the Adult Contemporary charts with a well-manicured fist. Sheena first…
Brian Wilson – That Lucky Old Sun purchase this album (Amazon) Á¢€Å“Genius is the ability to make something very complex seem very simple.Á¢€ There goes my lead. Brian Wilson speaks…
Á¢€Å“Awwwww, yeah! I see a real woman, I need to grab her, she busts out yodelinÁ¢€â„¢Á¢€¦Á¢€ There is just no better way to open a song than that. In 1988,…
Last weekÁ¢€â„¢s E.G. Daily track reminded me of bar trivia with my buddies, so I thought IÁ¢€â„¢d expand that into an intro. For a good three years, Wednesday was the…
Hello. My name is Brandon Schott, and IÁ¢€â„¢m an LA-based singer-songwriter-producer-father-husband. Jeff asked me to write a little something for Popdose in anticipation of our joint charity event at Safari…
In Mike Judge’s 1999 comedy Office Space, its protagonist Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is described by the downsizing consultants as a “straight shooter with upper management written all over him.”…
Let’s get all the cute little jokes about the title of today’s featured song out of the way first, shall we?Á‚ I’ll pause while you do so. G’head, get ’em…
You guys are way too good at this. Fortunately for you, I had already created a bunch of these quizzes before I realized how quickly you’d pick them off. When…
M83 – “Teen Angst” Placebo – “Teenage Angst” Zack: It’s hard to argue that there’s anybody who has a better grasp of teen angst than Gordon Gano of the Violent…
Ah, the fourth quarter. It isn’t as much of an event as it used to be, but even as the music industry crumbles to dust before our very eyes, artists…
Michael Jackson turns 50 today. Fifty! Jacko is five-oh! Hard to believe, probably because the man hasn’t acted his age — or looked his age, for that matter — in…
Hey everybody, did you miss me? I hardly missed myself. We’re back with the twenty-seventh unstoppable week of Name That Tune at Popdose. And we brought the rules with us,…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5NEE8oURdM0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey” (1987) John C. Hughes: Puppets! Á‚ Well, marionettes. Á‚ Everything is better with puppets/marionettes. Á‚ Except for this. Jon Cummings:…
While a large chunk of San FranciscoÁ¢€â„¢s concert-going population was crowding Golden Gate Park for that big olÁ¢€â„¢ Outside Lands festival, Saturday night, August 23, 2008, at KimoÁ¢€â„¢s was a…
Boy, we’d buy anything in the ’70s, wouldn’t we? Laverne & Shirley, the most successful spin-off from Happy Days, was riding high in 1976, overtaking its parent show to capture…
The freshmanÁ¢€â„¢s bags sat on the floor next to the bed his mother had just finished making up. It would be the last time she made his bed and the…
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. HeÁ¢€â„¢s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…