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Pop Goes the World: Derek Webb, “Jena & Jimmy”
This week in Pop Goes the World, David Medsker takes us to church -- sort of -- with a look at a track from Derek Webb's latest album
Read More »Pop Goes the World: “Ruby Trax,” Disc 3
This week, David Medsker reaches the third and final disc of the NME's 40th birthday compilation, featuring covers both ridiculous and sublime
Read More »Pop Goes the World: “Ruby Trax,” Disc 2
David Medsker has returned with the second disc of the NME's wonderfully strange covers compilation, featuring the biggest artists of the early '90s paying their respects to some of pop's greatest hits
Read More »Pop Goes the World: “Ruby Trax,” Disc 1
In 1992, to celebrate their 40th birthday, NME enlisted 40 bands to cover Number One hits by other artists, and the results were nothing if not interesting. David Medsker serves up the first of
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Sugarbomb, “Bully”
That sound you just heard was the hearts of a million power pop fans skipping a beat. There probably isn’t anything that happened to Sugarbomb during their brief tenure with RCA Records that didn’t
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Blink, “The Girl with the Backward Skin”
This album and band brings out my innermost old codger (which isn’t nearly as inner as it should be), because it has me telling days-of-yore stories about what music geeks once had to do
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Icecream Hands, “Sweeter Than the Radio”
It's time for another week of Pop Goes the World -- and a look at what David Medsker calls "the best album Crowded House never made."
Read More »Pop Goes the World: The Dissociatives
Whatever you may think of Frogstomp (1995), the oh-so-timely slice of grunge lite that turned three Australian teenagers into superstars, you might be surprised to discover that Silverchair has evolved into a damn good
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Scritti Politti, “Umm”
The ’90s were dark times for fans of the punk rockers-turned synth soul popsters Scritti Politti. They — and by ‘they,’ I mean ‘he,’ as in the band’s singer and sole survivor Green Gartside
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Tribe, “Sleeper”
The sophomore album. I hear it’s tricky. So begins the second and final chapter on our tribute to one of Boston’s finest. It was 1993, and in those pre-internet days, information on your favorite
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