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The Weekly Mixtape: Songs for a Weary Land
Rob Smith looks back at music that provided some small comfort after 9/11/2001, in this week's "Weekly Mixtape."
Read More »A Fan’s Notes: Newport Folk Festival 2011
Ken Shane was back at the Newport Folk Festival this year -- but this time, he wasn't just there as a journalist
Read More »Soul Serenade: The Staple Singers, “I’ll Take You There”
Ken Shane will be covering the Newport Folk Festival for Popdose again this weekend. Among the artists he looks forward to seeing is soul legend Mavis Staples
Read More »Live Music: Newport Folk Festival Lineup Announced
Last night, the lineup for the 2011 Newport Folk Festival was announced at a live event in Cambridge,
Read More »Desert Island Discs with Trey Lockerbie
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t a fair question, but
Read More »Song-Off Jr.: Wrecking Balls
When I conceived this post, I had actually planned to broaden the category to “Demolition” so I could include classics like AC/DC’s “TNT” and the Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House.” The only two
Read More »Live Music: Folk Festival 50, Newport, R.I. (Day One)
The Newport Folk Festival turned 50 over the weekend, and Popdose's Ken Shane was there. Read his recap of the festival's first day here
Read More »Parlour to Parlour, Episode 0: Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights
Parlour to Parlour begins today with Episode 0. This footage, filmed in San Francisco, CA, during the weekend of November 14-15, 2008, on my grandfather’s old analog Hi8, was “just practice†and not originally
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