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Pop Goes the World: Tribe, “Abort”
I’ve written literally hundreds of pieces for various web sites and newspapers, but nothing I have ever written has produced as much reader feedback as the piece I did in late 2005 about a
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Super 700, “Second in Line”
To say that I have a soft spot for musical melodrama would be a great understatement. “Unfinished Sympathy” by Massive Attack, for example. “In Denial” by the Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue, love
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Thomas Dolby, “Eastern Bloc”
Our Lord Jefito surely has a dozen stories on Giant Records and the litany of mistakes they made as a company – he seems to have at least one story for every label, further
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Trash Can Sinatras, “The Genius I Was”
He describes their music as "like oxygen," so it's only fitting that David Medsker should devote an edition of his Pop Goes the World series to the Trash Can Sinatras -- specifically "The Genius
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Alphabeat
Props to Will Harris for bringing this Danish group to my attention. God, I miss bands like this. Let’s not mince words about the kind of music Alphabeat plays because, as Bill Hicks once
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Cheap Trick, “All We Need Is a Dream”
The fantasy of owning a time machine is a fun one, isn’t it? Most people would go back and stop Hitler. Patton Oswalt would go to 1983 and kill George Lucas with a shovel.
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Attic Lights
Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me. (That scream you just heard is
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