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The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: A Mellowmas Carole

The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: A Mellowmas Carole

Jeff Giles and Jason Hare December 15, 2011 22

So it's come to this for Carole King

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Here’s Something Else!: On Todd Rundgren, The Not-So Popular Tortured Artist

Here’s Something Else!: On Todd Rundgren, The Not-So Popular Tortured Artist

Something Else! Reviews September 20, 2011 0

Perhaps Todd Rundgren’s own restive muse — he’s dabbled in every major rock subgenre over the past four decades — simply makes him too difficult to categorize. Maybe Rundgren never stuck with one thing

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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 8

Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 8

Popdose Staff August 24, 2011 2

And just like that, 1963 is in our rear-view mirrors. But before we speed ahead to '64 let's fire up the old transistor radio and check out the final group of tunes from

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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 6

Popdose Staff August 10, 2011 4

Our look at AM Gold's 1963 entry tackles five very different tunes - from folk to soul to country

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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 2

Popdose Staff July 13, 2011 4

The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962's hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney

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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 1

Popdose Staff July 6, 2011 11

Popdose breaks down the first five songs from Time-Life Music's AM Gold: 1962 compilation album, and takes time to enjoy a classic 1980s Dom DeLuise commercial

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Soul Serenade: Freddie Scott, “Hey, Girl”

Ken Shane April 14, 2011 1

Just when Freddie Scott decided to give up on recording and focus on songwriting, an opportunity came along to record a song that would change his life

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Here’s Something Else!: Rock Classics That You Don’t Have to Love

Something Else! Reviews February 8, 2011 35

Amidst all the talk of rock music's Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems, and Timeless Standards, there remain a few things that should have been left unsung. And we don't mean unsung in the good way

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CD Review: Monkees, “Head” (Deluxe Edition)

Will Harris November 2, 2010 7

Will Harris praises Rhino Handmade's reissue of the Head soundtrack and the Monkees songs contained therein, but the album as a whole...? Not so much.

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Cratedigger: Blood, Sweat & Tears, “Child Is Father to the Man”

Ken Shane December 19, 2009 10

There had never been anything quite like them. They weren’t the cute mop-tops or acid-fueled freaks that had risen to fame in recent years. The members of Blood, Sweat & Tears were seasoned music

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