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Wandering the Aisles: Going Gaga for Madonna
When I set out to chronicle the musical offerings of America’s supermarkets, pharmacies and other not-quite-cutout bins in this column, I expected to find a lot of silly junk or wildly overstocked albums. I
Read More »Popdose 2010: Mike Duquette’s Best Reissues
Even in a year where a lot of great new music was released, it’s still been a blast to revisit artists and albums of old through those wonderful reissues, box sets and other catalogue
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: The Vaughan Brothers, “Family Style”
On the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, Michael Fortes revisits the Texas guitar master's swan song: a collaboration with brother Jimmie Vaughan
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Carly Simon, “Why”
Before singer/songwriter Carly Simon attempted to fully embrace the excess of the ’80s with a misguided stab at New Wave, she released this single in 1982 from the soundtrack of the forgotten flick “Soup
Read More »Future Retro: Jody Watley
A TOUCH OF SHALAMAR Singer, songwriter, and producer Jody Watley first boogied her way to fame at the age of 14 as a dancer on the legendary music program Soul Train. In 1976 the
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 17
Every now and then I like to talk about what I have deemed “inappropriate ghetto moments.” These moments occur when I have the windows open in my car, the stereo turned up really loud
Read More »Mix Six: “It’s Disco, Bitches!”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE As Prince said, “I think I wanna dance!” Sometimes in the weekly Mix Six shuffle it’s easy to forget the lasting impact of disco on the culture at large.
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Diana Ross, “Diana”
Berry Gordy is a powerful man. Not only did he found Motown Records, building a musical empire that allowed blacks to crossover into what had pretty much been a white-controlled music industry, but almost
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