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The Popdose Guide to New Edition
A comprehensive look at the careers of the members of one of the most influential R&B acts of all time
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Neneh Cherry, “Buddy X” (1993)
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive hit songs they should
Read More »Friday Night Videos!: The Hits of 1989
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a heart-rending story, about some brat that didn’t
Read More »Soul Serenade: Anniversary MegaMix 1
Ken Shane celebrates the six-month anniversary of his Soul Serenade column with an awesome mix that includes every song that has appeared in his column so far
Read More »Soul Serenade: Bobby Brown, “Every Little Step”
OK, I admit it. I know fuck-all about Bobby Brown. Week after week I use this space to pontificate about the great soul music of the past. You put up with it because I
Read More »CD Review: Macy Gray, “The Sellout”
With her 1999 debut, On How Life Is, Macy Gray set a standard that even then, it seemed unlikely she’d top. Blessed with a voice and a way with lyrics that was unorthodox to
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Bell Biv DeVoe, “Poison”
Slap it up, flip it, rub it down, oh no! Bell Biv DeVoe's debut is 20 years old!
Read More »The Twelfth Day of Mellowmas: O’Jaysmas
A dozen days into Mellowmas '09, Jeff and Jason sift through the smoking wreckage of the Love Train to find an O'Jays Christmas
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 9/24/88
What artist is currently being credited on the Internet as winning five Grammy Awards when, in fact, she's won zero? What song supposedly includes satanic messages at the end? Which popular '80s artists had
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: “Ghostbusters II”
This isn't just another episode of Soundtrack Saturday, it's a major slime-related pshychokinetic event!
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