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The Friday Mixtape: 6/18/10
D'ya like the Mamas & the Papas, the Association, Spanky and Our Gang, and other great '60s pop? Popdose produces a plethora of it in this week's Friday Mixtape
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 6/4/10 — Queen Edition
Last year I reviewed the phenomenal book Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock. Although I spent a couple of hours reading it before my review, there wasn’t enough time
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 5/28/10 — Doin’ It A Cappella Style!
A cappella is defined as music that is sung without instrumental accompaniment. According to the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a cappella music was originally “composed to be performed in chapels which, unlike large churches,
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 5/21/10
This week’s mix is one that I’ve been listening to a lot lately when getting ready to go out for a night of fun (and usually dancing). Hope it gets you in a partying
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 5/14/10
In the late ’90s and early ’00s, I went head first down the power-pop rabbit hole. I eventually regretted it for some reason (oh wait, I remember now — the scene turned to complete
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 5/7/10
Cymbals Eat Guitars – And the Hazy Sea from Why There Are Mountains (2009) The Dirty Three with Cat Power – Great Waves from Cinder (2005) The Be Good Tanyas – Ship Out On
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 4/23/10
Rob Smith grows mutton chops and brings out the old shag carpet, not to mention his Blondie Chaplin, Jefferson Starship, and Maggie Bell records, for an old-fashioned '70s record party, on this week's Popdose.com
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 4/9/10
As you know if you follow my quasi-weekly column “Way Out Wednesday,” I also run a blog called “Way Out Junk.” (It is, in fact, what got me the Popdose gig in the first
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 4/2/10 (featuring Heidi Jones)
You may recognize Heidi Jones as an on-air personality from ABC’s Good Morning America. If you live in the New York tri-state area, you definitely know her as a member of WABC‘s weather team.
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 3/26/10
This week’s mixtape is an ode to Internet-only, independent radio station woxy.com, which, sadly, went off the air earlier this week — perhaps for good. To honor the contribution the station has made to
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