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Free Music: City Squirrel, “Lockerbie”
The Portland band City Squirrel are set to release their excellent third album, defeat
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CD Review: Brandon Schott, “13 Satellites”
Brandon Schott's latest album, "13 Satellites," is really good. Just ask Rob Smith
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CD Review: The Big Sweet, “Ultraviolet Rain”
Ohio-based indie band the Big Sweet are very young, they’re teenagers even, but they rock a very sophisticated sound, which is that finely tuned, happily fussed about power pop sound that should be more
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/8/10 (John Lennon Edition)
In honor of John Lennon's 70th birthday October 9, Popdose presents a collection of Lennon covers in The Friday Mixtape
Read More »Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Oranjuly
"Rob Smith Can't Say No" to the power-pop goodness of Boston's Oranjuly. Check it out at Popdose
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 3/26/10
This week’s mixtape is an ode to Internet-only, independent radio station woxy.com, which, sadly, went off the air earlier this week — perhaps for good. To honor the contribution the station has made to
Read More »Mope Like Me: One Final Mix Tape
This will be the last Mope Like Me column. In truth, I didn’t think I would be saying this, at least not this soon after launching it. I’m a sucker for sad songs, and
Read More »Motion Picture Soundtrack: Elliott Smith, “Needle in the Hay”
To begin: Music has been a essential part of movies since the very first images were committed to celluloid — in fact, motion picture scores existed before spoken dialogue did — so it’s not
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