[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/pdJzLpWFYJ4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: The Rolling Stones, “Mixed Emotions” (1989) Scott Malchus: This was the album when Keith and Mick supposedly started liking each other again….
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IÁ¢€â„¢m a list man. I love making them, I love talking about them, I love everything about them. And if I accept a challenge to make a list I will…
Beau Jocque and The Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Give It To Me from Pick Up on This! (1994) Pictures And Sound – It’s You from Pictures and Sound (2008) Bel Auburn…
September 17, 1978, is a Sunday. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords. The peace agreement was reached after 12 days of…
I donÁ¢€â„¢t have anything profound to add to the many comments and editorials you are going to see and hear today. All of you fine readers that come to Popdose…
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song purchase this DVD (Amazon) You need to see this movie. He’s happily existed on the outskirts of the pop culture landscape for the last…
Ah, the fourth quarter. It isn’t as much of an event as it used to be, but even as the music industry crumbles to dust before our very eyes, artists…
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…
Tepoztlan, Morelas, Mexico is a place known for Aztec magic and extra-terrestrial sightings — so it only seems natural that Conor Oberst would head down there to record his latest…
We’ve talked before about songs we loved in our younger days that just don’t quite hold up to an older ear’s scrutiny. Unfortunately (or not, if you still love it),…
The Popdose staff was sitting around the other day, doing what we do best — namely, talking about records that most people wish they didn’t remember — when a discussion…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0KL_fgWgK40″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Mike + the Mechanics, “Silent Running” (1985) David Medsker: I love Paul Carrack as much as the next guy, but is what…
Once chance intervention, see what it can signify The slightest misapprehension, baby And we’d have passed each other by When I heard your sweet voice callin’ Saw your light come…
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…
Success is problematic for a band. When you’re flying under the radar, no one expects much from you. But then, when you deliver a breakthrough, as The Hold Steady did…
Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day (live) from Live 1975-1985 (1986) Taj Mahal – Freedom Ride from Largo (1998) The Damnwells – God Bless America from Air Stereo (2006) The Beach…
Late. I was late getting to the damn airport. If I hadnÁ¢€â„¢t stopped by the library to renew that Le Carre book, I would have been on the road already….
—– Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison” Dave: “Never trust a big butt and smile.” Has there ever been a statement so true? And this coming from three dudes that…
Actually, itÁ¢€™s only Volume 2, but whoÁ¢€™s counting? This is an all-Canadian edition of my occasional series sorting through the wreckage of a vinyl collection that focused heavily on minor…
How many of you remember your first music purchase? I have a terrible memory, so I’m not sure if it really was my first purchase ever, but I absolutely remember…
Bruce Springsteen – “Tunnel of Love” Jon: I recognize that this is a minority opinion, considering the iconic stature of so much of Bruce Springsteen’s work, but “Tunnel…
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On from What’s Going On (1971) Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt – 1917 from Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (1999) Bob Dylan – Two Soldiers…
IÁ¢€™m not sure when my brother, Budd, brought home his copy of John (then) Cougar MellencampÁ¢€™s Uh Huh. The cassette showed up in the basement one summer, a year or…
A few weeks ago in this space, I located the origin of my personal anglophilia in the syndicated radio show Rock Over London, which introduced Americans to Á¢€Ëœ80s-era British acts…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/heQi0AZBH-0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Silverchair, “Tomorrow” (1995) John: It’s Jim Henson’s Kurt Cobain Babies! Zack: Everybody made such a big deal out of this band because…
The news of Danny FedericiÁ¢€â„¢s passing has me contemplating a number of emotions. It seems that with every passing week, there is news of cancer claiming yet another beautiful spirit…
The news of Danny Federici’s death has sent my mind reeling back over the dozens of E Street Band shows that I’ve seen over the years. But the one I…
The first thing thing that came to mind when I heard that Danny Federici had passed was the chorus of “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” This song, more than…
(This week, Ye Olde CHART ATTACK! is being taken over by none other than Robert Cass, my co-Managing Editor here at Popdose. Seems like it was only last year that…
April 16, 1981, was a Thursday. The nation’s front pagesÁ‚ detail the story of Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke, who admitted yesterday that her Pulitzer Prize-winning series featuring an eight-year-old heroin…