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The Popdose Guide to Prince, Part One

The Popdose Guide to Prince, Part One

Dave Steed January 12, 2010 51

What's purple, has two thumbs, and will most likely try to sue our asses for running this guide? Ladies and gents, Prince Rogers Nelson!

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The Popdose Guide to David Bowie, Part Two

The Popdose Guide to David Bowie, Part Two

Anthony Hansen September 22, 2009 16

It took him almost two months, but Anthony Hansen is back with the final installment of his guide to David Bowie's recording career. Let's get eclectic ... and let's dance!

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The Popdose Guide to KISS

The Popdose Guide to KISS

John Young September 15, 2009 25

Yeah, we know it’s only Tuesday, but it’s never too early to rock — so break out the greasepaint and the studded leather, ’cause John Young is ready to give you some KISS!

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The Popdose Guide to David Bowie, Part One

The Popdose Guide to David Bowie, Part One

Anthony Hansen July 29, 2009 30

Been missing the Popdose Guides? So has Anthony Hansen -- and unlike the rest of us, he's gone and done something about it

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The Popdose Guide to Utopia

The Popdose Guide to Utopia

Anthony Hansen June 17, 2009 56

Missing the Popdose Guides? You'll be pleased to make the acquaintance of Anthony Hansen, who makes his debut with the Popdose Guide to Todd Rundgren's Utopia

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The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith

The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith

Mojo Flucke May 25, 2009 13

For all the Hammond-deficient Memorial Day barbecues out there, Mojo Flucke has prepared a treat: The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith

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Beyond Ubiquitous: The Popdose Guide to Syd Straw

Beyond Ubiquitous: The Popdose Guide to Syd Straw

Jon Cummings April 6, 2009 8

For someone who can talk your ear off, Syd Straw certainly has built an enigmatic career. After establishing her bona fides as an arty modern-rock diva during the mid-’80s, as part of the Golden

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The Popdose Guide to Marti Jones

The Popdose Guide to Marti Jones

Jon Cummings March 2, 2009 21

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

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The Popdose Guide to Don Dixon

The Popdose Guide to Don Dixon

Jon Cummings November 3, 2008 8

Don Dixon may never quite achieve the lofty stature of rock and roll’s Great Men, but there’s no questioning that for nearly 40 years he’s been one of the industry’s great guys. He’s a

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The Popdose Guide to Juliana Hatfield

The Popdose Guide to Juliana Hatfield

Michael Fortes August 18, 2008 18

Listening to rock radio in the early ’90s — particularly the college and ‘alternative’ varieties — was an experience like no other. The ratio of tolerable to intolerable music was so high that no

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