Dramarama – “Work for Food” It’s hard to go shopping in a thrift store these days without running into a t-shirt or two from Dramarama’s Hi-Fi-Sci-Fi tour, which was attended…
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I’ll be up front about this one: I really never got Nitzer Ebb. Back in my DJing days, I’d get tons of requests for “Join in the Chant,” “Murderous,” or…
A drunk, an atheist and a poet walk into a bar. They’re all the same guy, and there is no punchline. Welcome to Del Amitri! Anchored by the stereotypically “dour…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A big hello to you fans of ye olde Mix Six. As you know, I was away on some R&R. Pinch hitter Jack Feerick took…
Andrew Ripp – Fifty Miles to Chicago (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Name an album Fifty Miles to Chicago — or pose for a cover shot while you’re walking in…
Brandon Schott – Golden State (2007) purchase this album (Amazon) Brandon Schott is a patient man. As those of you who read Jefitoblog might recall, I assembled a “staff” of…
In New York, baseball is akin to religion. To many New Yorkers, Billy Joel is, too. So it was no surprise when it was announced that Joel would play the…
Youssou N’Dour – 7 Seconds (duet with Neneh Cherry) from 7 Seconds: The Best Of (2004) Yes – Love Shine from Open Your Eyes (1998) Willy Porter – Infinity from…
Hey everybody and everysoul. Welcome to the twenty-fourth brow-furrowing week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Try not to resent the Rules: The Rules (subject to modification in future games):…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NVm3SmyMkFU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: The Tubes, “She’s a Beauty” (1983) Michael: I like this song a lot. I like “White Punks on Dope” even better. I…
When the Fleet Foxes performed at Bowery Ballroom last week, frontman Robin Pecknold had a cold. But unlike a downtrodden, silent Frank Sinatra, the audience might have never known it…
In a recent smackdown bitch slap Chartburn discussion that will be published tomorrow, we had cause to discuss the merits of “She’s a Beauty” by the Tubes. I won’t disclose…
Years before Eminem fantasized about killing his baby mama, another white rapper was crafting hip-hop joints about killing annoying passersby and setting fire to buildings in the dead of night…
The Scissormen play raucous blues along the lines of the Flat Duo Jets or the Black Keys, with guitar and drums. One half of the duo, Ted Drozdowski, is a…
In the fall of 1991, Robbie Robertson released his second solo album, Storyville, to glowing reviews, including a four-star feature write up in Rolling Stone (Á¢€Å“a mature and masterful work…
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…
Many artists put on emotional masks, and there are a multiplicity of reasons they do so. Some simply wish to distance the “real them” from the audience, in order to…
July 16, 1971, is a Friday. Life magazine reports on the three Soviet Soyuz 11 cosmonauts who died during re-entry on June 29; consumer advocate Bess Myerson is on the…
Stylistically, Love as Laughter have jumped around a fair amount over 14 years of existence. Holy, the sixth release from frontman and founding member Sam Jayne (who seems to be…
Looking at the six years between The Devil, You + Me, the newest release from the Notwist, and Neon Golden, the release that threw them into American ears, leaves a…
WeÁ¢€â„¢ve been hearing the Á¢€Å“rock is deadÁ¢€ pronouncements for so many years now that we donÁ¢€â„¢t even listen anymore. Á¢€Å“It is what it is,Á¢€ we blithely proclaim, pretending not to…
Here’s the deal: Every once in a while one stumbles upon a group or whatever that just knocks you on your butt and you gotta broadcast your discovery to the…
Let us take a quick trip back to the land of Cutouts Gone Wild! and unearth a song that was heard by roughly 17 people upon its release in 1989….
Last week I talked about Á¢€Å“the Shrink,Á¢€ the guy at the record show who thinks he knows everything about every artist that ever recorded. This week we move on to…
I’d been a big fan of Midge Ure-era Ultravox since the first time I saw “Vienna” on MTV early one Sunday morning in 1982, so when I spotted the new…
Greetings from the bottom of my glass of bourbon! Okay, my vacation wasn’t a complete alcoholiday, but I have to admit to a few hazy nights in Hawai’i. So, to…
These days baby boomers, especially women, are in something of a panic. Demographically, professionally, financially and sociologically, theyÁ¢€™ve been dominating American culture for nearly half a century now, while succeeding…
This year’s newest music festival, the New American Music Union, takes place in Pittsburgh on August 8th and 9th — and Popdose has two tickets up for grabs! Created by…
WHAM! BAM! Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou seemed an unlikely choice to become a pop music superstar. However, after meeting schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley and forming a group called Wham!, a pop star…
The Rubinoos – Heroes and Villains from Crimes Against Music (2002) Nine Days – 257 Weeks from The Madding Crowd (2000) Billy Joel – All You Wanna Do Is Dance…