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Popdose Flashback ’91: Squeeze, “Play”

David Medsker July 21, 2011 3

This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.Here's the back story: I had just graduated from college in the

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Popdose Flashback ’91: Big Audio Dynamite II, “The Globe”

Robin Monica Alexander June 24, 2011 3

No one could top the Clash, so Mick Jones didn't try...instead, he forged his own path with the brainy dance music of Big Audio Dynamite. Robin Monica Alexander looks back at "The Globe."

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Popdose Flashback ’91: Joe Jackson, “Laughter & Lust”

David Medsker April 29, 2011 5

Or, to borrow an album title from the Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful. In 1990, Joe Jackson had just signed a spiffy new deal with Virgin Records after spending 10 years and 11 albums

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Pop Goes the World: Tribe, “Abort”

David Medsker June 17, 2009 12

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

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